Ensuring global food security by improving protein content in major grain legumes using breeding and 'Omics' tools

UC Jha, H Nayyar, SK Parida, R Deshmukh… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Grain legumes are a rich source of dietary protein for millions of people globally and thus a
key driver for securing global food security. Legume plant-based 'dietary …

Natural variation in fatty acid composition of diverse world soybean germplasms grown in China

AM Abdelghany, S Zhang, M Azam, AS Shaibu, Y Feng… - Agronomy, 2019 - mdpi.com
Soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) is one of the most important crops in the world. Its major
content of vegetable oil made it widely used for human consumption and several food …

Rules for grown soybean-maize cropping system in Midwestern Brazil: Food production and economic profits

R Battisti, MDP Ferreira, ÉB Tavares, FM Knapp… - Agricultural …, 2020 - Elsevier
Soybean-maize cropping system is highly dependent on climate condition, especially water
deficit, across Brazil, affecting yield, food production and farmers profit. Based on that, the …

Impacts of domestication on the rhizobial mutualism of five legumes across a gradient of nitrogen-fertilisation

N Millar, J Piovia-Scott, SS Porter - Plant and Soil, 2023 - Springer
Aims Domestication and crop breeding has improved plants for human use, but may have
unintended consequences for traits that are not selected upon. Disruption in the mycorrhizal …

Genetic regulations of the oil and protein contents in soybean seeds and strategies for improvement

A Liu, SS Cheng, WS Yung, MW Li, HM Lam - Advances in Botanical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] is an important legume crop that provides high-
quality vegetable protein and oil. In general, oil makes up around 19% of the dry weight of a …

Identifying a wild allele conferring small seed size, high protein content and low oil content using chromosome segment substitution lines in soybean

H Yang, W Wang, Q He, S Xiang, D Tian… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2019 - Springer
Key message A wild soybean allele conferring 100-seed weight, protein content and oil
content simultaneously was fine-mapped to a 329-kb region on Chromosome 15, in which …

Linkage analysis and residual heterozygotes derived near isogenic lines reveals a novel protein quantitative trait loci from a Glycine soja accession

Y Yang, TC La, JD Gillman, Z Lyu, T Joshi… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Modern soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr] cultivars have low overall genetic variation due to
repeated bottleneck events that arose during domestication and from selection strategies …

Correlations between soybean seed quality traits using a genome-wide association study panel grown in Canadian and Ukrainian mega-environments

H Hong, M Yoosefzadeh-Najafabadi… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Improvement of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] seed quality traits in addition to agronomic
traits requires a detailed understanding of correlations between these traits. The objective of …

TILLING by sequencing: a successful approach to identify rare alleles in soybean populations

R Thapa, M Carrero-Colón, KM Rainey, K Hudson - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
Soybean seeds produce valuable protein that is a major component of livestock feed.
However, soybean seeds also contain the anti-nutritional raffinose family oligosaccharides …

Multiomics approach reveals a role of translational machinery in shaping maize kernel amino acid composition

V Shrestha, A Yobi, ML Slaten, YO Chan… - Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Maize (Zea mays) seeds are a good source of protein, despite being deficient in several
essential amino acids. However, eliminating the highly abundant but poorly balanced seed …