Abstract: This is a summary of the research conducted to determine the inheritance of resistance to foliar feeding lepidoptera species using soybean looper in the assay. The results were analyzed utilizing the Generation Means Analysis to estimate the number of genes conferring resistance to soybean looper in soybean. Dissertation Discovery Company and University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "Inheritance of Resistance to the Soybean Looper in Soybean" by Michael Montgomery Kenty, was obtained from University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A digital copy of this work may also be found in the university's institutional repository, IR@UF. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation.