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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.
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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 Cross-Tradition Connections
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A legume that hosts nitrogen-fixing rhizobia in its root nodules
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