Author: Abraham P. Dlamini
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soybean
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Author: Berthold Hornetz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783921599556
Category : Soybean
Languages : en
Pages : 163

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Author: Minobu Kasai
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9535131176
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Soybean is one of the organisms largely contributing to our life. Therefore, it is important to know soybean from various aspects. The knowledge and soybean itself will be greatly useful, if they are soundly used. The chapters constituting this book present reviews and researches especially concerning the basis of yield, biomass, and productivity in soybean. Yield, biomass, and productivity in plants are some of the bases for maintaining or improving our ecosystem which includes our life and surrounding environments. Therefore, this book is expected to be useful for many people. Of course, more researches and investigations are important to further gain the knowledge concerning the basis of yield, biomass, and productivity and make them useful for our ecosystem.

Author: Larry G. Heatherly
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781420049206
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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This book compiles information relevant to understanding soybean production processes and condenses it into a single volume. The authors identify production practices and bring together diverse information that suggests ways for producers to better utilize the soil and climatic resources of the midsouthern U.S. to enhance production of this valuable and versatile crop. This publication makes a special effort to focus on information that will enhance soybean production in the midsouth, where yields have been lower than those in the upper midwester n portion of the U.S., however, much of the information, such as statistics and crop models, will be applicable to other regions, from Texas to the Carolinas.

Author: Munna Singh
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9783659368578
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Plant performance and productivity is influenced by epigenetic variables, i.e. salinity, drought, heat, cold and flooding characteristics etc. of any agro-climatic zone. The economic development of any nation gets co-related with the suitability of available natural variables. The world agriculture is passing through a lot of challenges for planning to produce nearly 70% more food for an additional 2.3 billion people by 2050 (FAO,2009; Hasanuzzaman et al.,2013). The in-vivo quality control of photosynthetic apparatus may induce attributes for improving crop productivity (Singh et al., 2008). As, the major abiotic stresses such as salinity, drought, heat, cold and flooding etc. negatively influence plant growth, biomass production and yield of staple food crops up to 70% which threatens the food security worldwide. More than 45 mha irrigated land which accounts to 20% of the total land found to be affected by the salinity, and 1.5 mha becomes out of production each year due to high level of salinity (Munns and Tester 2008)across the globe. Soybean (Glycine max L.) is a species of legume native to Eastern Asia. An attempt has been made to revel influence of salinity on soybean.

Author: Shabir Hussain Wani
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783031122347
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Soybean (Glycine max L. (Merr)) is one of the most important crops worldwide. Soybean seeds are vital for both protein meal and vegetable oil. Soybean was domesticated in China, and since last 4-5 decades it has become one of the most widely grown crops around the globe. The crop is grown on an anticipated 6% of the world’s arable land, and since the 1970s, the area in soybean production has the highest percentage increase compared to any other major crop. It is a major crop in the United States, Brazil, China and Argentina and important in many other countries. The cultivated soybean has one wild annual relative, G. soja, and 23 wild perennial relatives. Soybean has spread to many Asian countries two to three thousand years ago, but was not known in the West until the 18th century. Among the various constraints responsible for decrease in soybean yields are the biotic and abiotic stresses which have recently increased as a result of changing climatic scenarios at global level. A lot of work has been done for cultivar development and germplasm enhancement through conventional plant breeding. This has resulted in development of numerous high yielding and climate resilient soybean varieties. Despite of this development, plant breeding is long-term by nature, resource dependent and climate dependent. Due to the advancement in genomics and phenomics, significant insights have been gained in the identification of genes for yield improvement, tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress and increased quality parameters in soybean. Molecular breeding has become routine and with the advent of next generation sequencing technologies resulting in SNP based molecular markers, soybean improvement has taken a new dimension and resulted in mapping of genes for various traits that include disease resistance, insect resistance, high oil content and improved yield. This book includes chapters from renowned potential soybean scientists to discuss the latest updates on soybean molecular and genetic perspectives to elucidate the complex mechanisms to develop biotic and abiotic stress resilience in soybean. Recent studies on the improvement of oil quality and yield in soybean have also been incorporated.

Author: Matilda Baraibar Norberg
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000903478
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes of agrofood globalization. The book uses a historical lens to analyze the processes and features that brought us to the current global configuration of the soybean commodity chain. From its origins as a peasant food in ancient China, today the protein-rich soybean is by far the most cultivated biotech crop on Earth; used to make a huge variety of food and industrial products, including animal feed, tofu, cooking oil, soy sauce, biodiesel and soap. While there is a burgeoning amount of literature on how the contemporary global soy web affects large tracts of our planet’s social-ecological systems, little attention has been given to the questions of how we got here and what alternative roles the soybean has played in the past. This book fills this gap and demonstrates that it is impossible to properly comprehend the contemporary global soybean chain, or the wider agrofood system of which it is a part, without looking at both their long and short historical development. However, a history of the soybean and its changing roles within equally changing agrofood systems is inexorably a history about globalization. Not only does this book map out where soybeans are produced, but also who governs, wields power and accumulates capital in the entire commodity chain from inputs in production to consumption, as well as identifying the institutional context the global commodity chain operates within. The book concludes with a discussion of the main challenges and contradictions of the current soy regime that could trigger its rupture and end. This book is essential reading for students, practitioners and scholars interested in agriculture and food systems, global commodity chains, globalization, environmental history, economic history and social-ecological systems.

Author: P. S. Bhatnagar
Publisher: Fao
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Soybeans have achieved an important place in the agricultural and edible oil economy of India. Besides contributing about eight per cent to the national edible oil supply, development of the crop has resulted in a rural revolution and an improved socio-economic situation for farmers. Apart from making India almost self-sufficient in edible oil, soybeans offer good prospects for the alleviation of pulse protein malnutrition which is widespread in the country. This publication presents a critical analysis of the cropping systems in the different agro-ecologies of India and discusses the overall situation of soybeans within these cropping systems under diverse conditions.

Author: Marjatta Eilittä
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402020511
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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In the 1980s and 1990s, green manure/cover crop (GMCC) systems became a popular agricultural technology in research and development efforts for smallholder tropical and subtropical farmers. However, few syntheses of these experiences have been conducted. This volume of case studies contributes to bridging this gap by reviewing field-level experiences with these systems. Twelve case studies are included. Eleven of them describe experiences from Latin America (4 cases), Africa (6 cases) and Asia (1 case) and the twelfth case reports on the development of a GMCC systems database. Two concluding chapters, `Learning from the Case Studies' and `Future Perspectives', build upon the cases. The systems described are diverse. Some systems have been spontaneously adopted by farmers, while others have been introduced to the farmers through diffusion efforts. Some of the cases reviewed describe small, localized efforts while others report on large-scale, well-known ones, such as the combination of GMCCs and conservation tillage in Santa Catarina, Brazil, the maize-Mucuna system in northern Honduras, and the improved fallow systems in Eastern Zambia. Most experiences include both development and research aspects and to the extent possible the cases integrate these two. Discussion of the strengths and shortcomings of the systems and efforts is frank, and the goal is to learn from these experiences to benefit future efforts. It is expected that both researchers and development practitioners and students of tropical farming systems and soil management will find this volume of case studies useful.

Author: Guriqbal Singh
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 1845936450
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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The book is divided into 6 sections (20 chapters) which deal with history and importance, botany, genetics and plant physiology, production, plant protection, utilization and marketing and trade of soybeans.