James Eugene Specht (1945 to 2026) was an American agronomist who specialized in soybean genetics, genomics, physiology and the response of soybean to water. Born in western Nebraska, he grew up on a farm producing irrigated sugar beets and other crops, took a BS in agronomy at the University of Nebraska in 1967, an MS in agronomy at the University of Illinois in 1971 and a PhD in genetics at Nebraska in 1974, and joined its faculty that year as a soybean physiologist and geneticist, retiring as Professor Emeritus. He was a member of the team that built the first soybean genetic map and of the team that sequenced the soybean genome, published in 2010, and helped develop nested association mapping populations. He found that soybean yield responds almost linearly to water supply and that genotypes differ in that response, advocated earlier planting, which moved the average planting date in Nebraska and the Midwest from mid-May to mid-April, and organized the online irrigation tool SoyWater.
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James Eugene "Jim" Specht (1945, February 13, 2026) was an American agronomist specializing in soybean genetics, genomics, physiology, and the agronomics of soybean response to water.
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James Eugene "Jim" Specht (1945, February 13, 2026) was an American agronomist specializing in soybean genetics, genomics, physiology, and the agronomics of soybean response to water.
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