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
Era (category) Soybean
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Source Peronospora manshurica (Wikipedia)
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Source Pseudomonas amygdali (Wikipedia)
Source Reniform Nematode (Wikipedia)
Source Soybean Cyst Nematode (Wikipedia)
Source Soybean Rust (Wikipedia)
Source Spotted Lanternfly (Wikipedia)
Source Stigmatomycosis (Wikipedia)
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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.
View the Source Spotted Lanternfly (Wikipedia)
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Its preferred host is the also invasive tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima), but it also feeds on other trees, and on crops including soybean, grapes, stone fruits, and Malus species.
Soybean Rust (Wikipedia)
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Soybean rust is a disease that affects soybeans and other legumes.
Soybean Cyst Nematode (Wikipedia)
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The soybean cyst nematode (SCN), Heterodera glycines, is a species of nematode and agricultural pest notable for being the most damaging to soybean crop yields in the U.S., targeting the roots of soybean and other legume plants.
Reniform Nematode (Wikipedia)
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It has a wide host range that includes fruit trees, lentil, cotton, pigeon pea, tea, tobacco, soybean, pineapple, banana, okra, coconut, cabbage, sweet potato, alfalfa, corn, asparagus, palm, cucumber, tomato, squash, cassava, radish, eggplant, guava, melon, chickpea, and ginger.
Pseudomonas amygdali (Wikipedia)
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Pseudomonas amygdali pv. fraxini Pseudomonas amygdali pv. glycinea causes disease of soybeans (Glycine max).
Phyllosticta sojaecola (Wikipedia)
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Phyllosticta sojaecola is a plant pathogen infecting soybean.
Peronospora manshurica (Wikipedia)
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It is a widespread disease on the leaves of soybeans and other crop plants.
Stigmatomycosis (Wikipedia)
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a fungal disease that occurs in a number of crops, such as cotton, soybean, pecan, pomegranate, citrus, and pistachio
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