To address the challenges of high cost and poor efect of current weed management in soybean production, we innovated soybean genetic transformation technology and glyphosate tolerance identification technology, and constructed a transgenic soybean breeding system. Using the genes owning intellectual property, we developed Zhonghuang 6106, a new transgenic soybean with high tolerance to the broad-spectrum and low herbicide residual glyphosate, which obtained a safety certificate for production and application in the Northeast and HuangHuai region in China. The new soybean lines derived from Zhonghuang 6106 reduced the amount of herbicides, saved more than 50 percent of weeding costs and more than 10 percent of yield losses, respectively, which providing technological support for the industrial application of herbicide-tolerant transgenic soybean, cost reduction and increasing efectiveness of crops and green agricultural development in China. The research results were selected as one of the top 10 landmark achievements in agricultural science and technology in the 13th Five-Year Plan Period of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Afairs of the People’s Republic of China.

Treatment of glyphosate in transgenic soybean (left) is more efective than conventional herbicide in non-transgenic soybean (right) for weed controls