Soybean is an important and valuable crop for global food feed supply, providing high-quality nutrition. Globally, five countries—namely Brazil, the USA, Argentina, China India—have dominated soybean production many years. The intention of this paper to review reasons their dominance, starting with seeds. High-quality seeds enable stress-free, high-density even planting in field. Seed quality a...

The investigation entitled, “Impact of Tillage on Growth, Productivity and Economics Soybean Grown in Vertisols Western Madhya Pradesh, India’’ was conducted during the kharif season year 2019-20 Department Soil Science Agricultural Chemistry, R.V.S.K.V.V., College Agriculture, Indore. objective experiment to study effect tillage practices growth productivity soybean evaluate economics energy u...

250 words) Recent development of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) technology is stimulating studies to remotely approximate canopy photosynthesis (measured as gross primary production, GPP). While multiple applications have advanced the empirical relationship between GPP and SIF, mechanistic understanding of this relationship is still limited. GPP:SIF relationship, using the standard ...

In the study of the biological control of plant-parasitic nematodes, knowledge of the saprophytic ability of a nematophagous fungus is necessary to understand its establishment and survival in the soil. The objectives of this study were (i) to determine if the nematophagous fungus ARF (Arkansas Fungus) shows differential use of plant residues; and (ii) to determine if ARF still existed in the s...

Increases in agricultural commodity price triggered by ethanol production and other socioeconomic conditions have dramatically affected land uses and agronomic practices in the U.S. This study used crop-specific land cover data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to analyze agricultural expansion and crop rotation pattern from 2006 to 2013 in the Midwest Corn Belt (MWCB): nine states...

The western corn rootworm Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) and the northern corn rootworm Diabrotica barberi Smith & Lawrence (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) are major pests of corn (Zea mays L.). Historically, crop rotation has been an effective management strategy, but both species have adapted to crop rotation in the Midwest. For both species in eastern Iowa, we...

The present work analyzed soy milk prepared from whole dehulled soybeans. The traditional method of soy milk preparation leads to wastage of about 35% of soybean solids in the form of okara, which gets filtered out. In the current study, soy milk was prepared with practically 100% recovery of soybean solids and treated with continuous flow high pressure processing (207 and 276 MPa pressure, 121...

Rotation and fertilization are important methods used to improve crop yield. In particular, rotation is an effective means of enhancing ecosystem diversity; however, there exist relatively few studies regarding the effects long-term maize–soybean on soil microbial communities. To further understand changes in community structure under fertilization, we a 9-year-old experimental site with as res...

We have reported that soybean milk is an excellent source for increasing bone mineral density (BMD) and mechanical bone strength. However, it is not known what kind of components in soybean milk affect bone metabolism. Consequently, the purpose of this study is to find the effective components in soybean milk on bone metabolism. It might be some peptide in soybean milk. Therefore, in this study...