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9 unusual facts about soybean


Alakamisy Antivato

The most important crops are rice and potatoes, while other important agricultural products are maize, barley and soya.

Ambohidranandriana

The most important crops are rice and soya, while other important agricultural products are maize and potatoes.

Converse, Blackford County, Indiana

Soybeans and corn are the most popular crops grown in Blackford County, and over 65,000 acres are devoted to these two crops.

Evogene

The company cooperates with some of the leading seed companies around the world, among them, Syngenta, DuPont, Monsanto and Bayer, in order to develop and commercialize its technology, especially with regard to corn, soy and wheat.

Mandritsara, Betafo

The most important crops are rice and potatoes, while other important agricultural products are beans, maize and soya.

Matthew Mechtel

Mechtel served as Chairman of the Farm Bureau Young Farmer and Rancher Committee, Chairman of the North Dakota Soybean Council.

Organización Primero de Marzo

During the 70’s, the country was in a period of economic growth, due to the construction of the hydroelectric Itaipu dam, on the Paraná River, on the border with Brazil, and also thanks to the exportation of soya and cotton.

Shirgaon, Sangli

Agriculture is one of the main sources of income, with the main cultivated crop being sugar cane, followed by peanuts and soya beans.

Vohimasina Sud

The most important crops are soya and cloves, while other important agricultural products are coffee and sweet potatos.


Alice Martin

Martin grew up on her father's cotton, wheat and soybean farm in Sledge, Mississippi.

Almay

Other natural ingredients in the products are Aloe (Aloe barbadensis), Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum), Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra), Soybean (Glycine max) and Rosehips (Rosa canina).

Art silk

In 1931, Henry Ford hired chemists Robert Boyer and Frank Calvert to produce artificial silk made with soybean fibers.

Asian soybean rust

Overwintering sites of soybean rust are restricted to areas with very mild winters, such as the gulf coasts of Florida, the very southernmost areas of Texas, or in Mexico.

Aspergillus sojae

Glyceollins, molecules belonging to the pterocarpans, are found in the soybean (Glycine max) and have been found to have an antifungal activity against A.

Black bean

Douchi, a type of fermented soybean (Glycine max) typically used in East Asian cuisine, the base for black bean sauce

Earl F. Hance

A fourth-generation family farmer, he owns a 600-acre farm in Port Republic, Maryland, growing corn and soybean crops, and previously tobacco.

Ludwig Haberlandt

His father was the eminent botanist, Gottlieb Haberlandt, plant tissue culture theorist and visionary; his grandfather was the European 'soybean' pioneer and trailblazer Friedrich J. Haberlandt.

Polyneuridine-aldehyde esterase

This enzyme is found in various forms in plant species such as Arabidopsis thaliana, Glycine max (soybean), Vitis vinifera (wine grape), and Solanum lycopersicum (tomato) among others.

Reddi-wip

Other similar products were on the market at the time including the non-dairy Rich's Whip Topping and Delsoy Presto Whip, which were developed at Henry Ford's soybean laboratories.

Rosario Board of Trade

The region around Rosario contains more than 80% of the vegetable oil industry of Argentina and its ports, (Rosario and San Lorenzo-Puerto San Martín), handle more than 90% of the Argentine export of soybean and its derivatives.

Sakawa, Kōchi

Rice, Japanese pears, tea leaves, soybeans, strawberries, and many other crops are grown on family plots in town.

Sakthi Sugars

Sakthi Sugars was found in 1961 and started producing sugar from 1964, and now produces various kinds of sugar, industrial alcohol, ethanol, power stations, soybean products, and bio earth.

San Lorenzo Department

The San Lorenzo Department includes important ports on the Paraná River, such as the city of San Lorenzo itself and Puerto General San Martín (which ships 50% of the Argentine exports of soybean).

Sophorolipid

Other than sophorolipids, common biosurfactants include rhamnolipids which can be produced by some species of Pseudomonas, and Lecithin which can be obtained either from soybean or from egg yolk and is a common food ingredient.

Sumbala

It can be made from other kinds of seeds, such as those of Prosopis africana, and the use of soybeans for this purpose is increasing due mainly to inadequate supply of néré seeds.

Tauco

The sauce is often used as condiment and flavouring for stir fried dishes such as tahu tauco (tofu in tauco sauce), kakap tahu tausi (red snapper with tofu in soybean sauce), or in soup such as swikee oh (frog legs in tauco soup) and pie oh (softshell turtle in tauco soup).

Vistive Gold

MON 87705 (OECD UI: MON-877Ø5-6, also known as Vistive Gold) is a genetically engineered variety of glyphosate-resistant low-linolenic, high-oleic soybeans produced by Monsanto.

W. C. Bradley Co.

Today they form the base of the company's Farm Division with 4,000 acres (16 km²) of row crops including peanuts, soybeans, corn, and wheat, 30,000 acres (120 km²) of timber, and a modern scientific swine-handling facility producing over 10,000 hogs per year for market.

Xiphinema americanum

TobRSV is a widespread nepovirus in annual crops in North America that infects tobacco, soybean, blueberry, apple, ash, autumn crocus, blackberry, cherry, dogwood, elderberry, grapevine, spearmint, and in Wisconsin has an economically important impact on cucurbits.


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