I have been working for the soybean breeding and genetic program since 2007. Our group develops elite soybean varieties adapted to the climatic and edaphic conditions, and cultural practices in Virginia, using both classical and molecular breeding methodologies. Our main breeding objectives emphasizes on: high-yielding soybean, herbicide-tolerant (GE) and conventional soybean cultivars, desired fatty acids (FA) and amino acids profiles, early maturity soybeans and disease resistance soybean. Our program also focuses on seed composition traits for the development of food soybean varieties, such as tofu, natto, spouts and vegetable soybean (Edamame) and feed soybean varieties for the poultry and aquaculture industries. One goal of our program is to develop soybean varieties and germplasm with nutritional bundles such as high protein and low trypsin inhibitors. We have initialized trypsin inhibitor research and breeding projects since 2014. We have developed and advanced high protein, low trypsin inhibitor, low phytate and low raffinose family of oligosaccharides soybean lines. We also have developed a simple and accurate HPLC method to detect and quantify KTI and a SNP marker that are used for marker-assisted selection for low KTI. In 2019, we started to incorporate genome editing system to edit TI genes(s) in order to have a super low or null TI. We are currently one of the leading labs on TI research in the U.S