“…Numerous studies conducted on various plant species, including rice, maize, wheat, soybean, potato, cucumber, and tomato, have demonstrated the ability of GWAS to uncover associations between marker-trait associations (MTAs) and effectively identify the underlying genes ( Zhao et al., 2011 ; Wang et al., 2016 ; Yan et al., 2019 ; Torkamaneh et al., 2020 ; Gao et al., 2021 ; Zhou et al., 2021 ; Liang et al., 2022 ; Luo et al., 2022 ; Zhao et al., 2023 ; Sun et al., 2022a ; Sun et al., 2022b ; Wang et al., 2015 , 2018 ; Jhon et al., 2023 ; Zhu et al., 2023 ). In soybean, multiple research studies have specifically investigated the genetic basis of yield ( Dong et al., 2021 ; Zhao et al., 2021 ; Bhat et al., 2022 ). Over the past 20 years, more than 3000 quantitative trait loci (QTLs) have been identified through GWAS in soybean ( https://www.soybase.org/ ).…”