Provided herein are methods and compositions for producing soybean plants having a select fatty acid composition, e.g., high saturated fatty acid, high monounsaturated fatty acid, and/or low polyunsaturated fatty acid content, using marker-assisted selection. The disclosure further provides methods and compositions for introgressing one or more quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with such phenotype. Plants produced according to the methods provided herein, and soybean oil having high saturated fatty acid, high monounsaturated fatty acid, and/or low polyunsaturated fatty acid content are also provided.

The present invention relates to a process for producing ethyl esters of polyunsaturated fatty acids, comprising transesterifying triacylglycerols in extracted plant lipid.

The invention provides a method for increasing the production of oil in the seed of a plant relative to that in a control plant, without significantly decreasing the production of protein in the seed, by ectopically expressing an oil-synthesising enzyme and an oil-encapsulating protein in the plant, wherein expression is not seed-preferred or seed-specific expression. The invention also provides plants and seeds produced or selected by the methods, and methods for processing the seeds into oil and a protein-enriched co-product.

The disclosure relates to soybean genes and mutant alleles thereof associated with improved flavor characteristics. Also disclosed are soybean plants comprising combinations of the mutant alleles along with related methods of improving one or more flavor characteristics of soybean seed.

The present disclosure provides fatty acid desaturase 2 (FAD2) genes and plants and/or plant cells bearing one or more mutations in two or more FAD2 genes; as well as methods of making and using such plants. In some embodiments, plants producing seed oil with high oleic acid content are provided.

Provided is a method for producing plants having seeds with an increased protein and/or oil content using mutagenesis and non-destructive chemical analysis. Additionally, provided are methods for identifying causative mutations associated with increased protein and/or oil content and methods of generating plants having the causative mutations associated with increased protein and/or oil content.