1. Economic importance and evolution of breeding in Brazil -- 2. FT seeds and the expansion of soybeans in Brazil -- 3. Diversity center and genetic resources -- 4. Vegetative and reproductive morphology -- 5. Qualitative characteristics in breeding -- 6. Quantitative characteristics in breeding -- 7. Quantitative genetics in breeding -- 8. Selection of parents -- 9. Methods of conduct segregating populations -- 10. Recurrent selection -- 11. Biometrics applied to the soybean genetic breeding -- 12. BLUP in the genetic evaluation of parents, generations, populations and progenies -- 13. Genetic mapping -- 14. Selection assisted by molecular markers and genomic selection -- 15. Breeding to transgenic cultivar -- 16. Transgenic cultivar -- 17. Resistance to diseases -- 18. Resistance to insects -- 19. Breeding for abiotic stresses -- 20. Breeding for nutritional quality -- 21. Agronomic traits in the development of cultivars -- 22. Multiplication and maintenance of seed -- 23. Registration and protection of soybean cultivars in Brazil.