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Soybean
Also Known As Soya Bean British English usage, alongside the American soybean.
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An East Asian legume that fixes its own nitrogen and packs more protein than any other widely grown crop. Millennia a food of China, Japan and Korea, the soybean became in the twentieth century the world's dominant source of livestock feed protein and vegetable oil, remaking the farm economies of the Americas. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Scientific Name Domestication Region Domesticated When (Circa)circa 7000 to 6600 BC in China by some estimates; domesticated forms clearly established by 1100 BC 1 Era
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Embrapa, Institutions Embrapa's soil science research, including large scale liming and fertilization of the acidic Cerrado savanna, made the region suitable for soybean cultivation and helped make Brazil one of the world's largest soybean exporters.
The Japanese beetle is a major defoliating pest of soybean across the eastern and midwestern United States.
Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply sets the export and production policy underpinning Brazil's position as the world's largest soybean producer and exporter.
A legume that hosts nitrogen-fixing rhizobia in its root nodules
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The soybean cyst nematode is the single most yield-limiting pathogen of soybean in North America.
Asian soybean rust (Phakopsora pachyrhizi) is a major fast-spreading fungal disease of cultivated soybean.
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The soybean, soy bean, or soya bean (Glycine max) is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean.
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Soy was domesticated from the wild soybean (Glycine soja) in north-central China between 6,000 and 9,000 years ago.
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