Soybeans VOL 1: History, Breeding, and Product Profile

Foreword by Dr. Viswanathan Chinnusamy

Preface

PART I: HISTORY, TAXONOMY, GENETICS, DISTRIBUTION, AND ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE

1. History and Genetic Diversity of Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.]

Ayyagari Ramlal, Ambika Rajendran, Sanjay Kumar Lal, and Godfree Chigeza

2. Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Cultivated Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.]

Roshni Rajamohan and Ayyagari Ramlal

3. Distribution, Cultivation, and Economic Importance of Soybean

Francisca Addae-Frimpomaah, Frederick Leo Sossah, Joseph Adjebeng-Danquah, and Benjamin Karikari

PART II: BREEDING, SEED SYSTEM, AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

4. History of Soybean Breeding

Rahul Kumar, Manisha Saini, Meniari Taku, Pulak Debbarma, Rohit Kumar Mahto, Ayyagari Ramlal, and Akshay Talukdar

5. Soybean: Breeding Challenges and Perspective

Raj Bahadur Singh, Aman Prakash, Anshika Rai, Amooru Harika, Ayyagari Ramlal, Ambika Rajendran, and Sanjay Kumar Lal

6. Soybean Breeding Methods and Techniques: Conventional and Modern

Aravindan Shanmugam, Chandrasekaran Deepika, Ponnuchamy Magudeeswari, Palanivelu Sathya, Kalaiarasan Manivelan, and Raman Pushpa

7. Product Profile, Breeding Objectives, and Production of New Varieties: An Integrated Approach to Soybean Breeding

Hapson Mushoriwa

8. Heterosis and Hybrid Breeding Strategies in Soybean

Manisha Saini, Akshay Talukdar, Rahul Kumar, Meniari Taku, Nenavat Krishna Kumar Rathod, Pulak Debbarma, and Bingi Pujari Mallikarjuna

9. Commercial Seed Production of Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] and Its Marketing

Leela Bhatt and M. K. Nautiyal

PART III: SOYPRODUCTS

10. Food Products Obtained from Soybean

Ankita Rajendra Parab, Ayyagari Ramlal, Naina Miglani, and Sreeramanan Subramaniam

11. Commercial Importance of Value Addition in Soybean

Ankita Rajendra Parab, Ayyagari Ramlal, and Sreeramanan Subramaniama

PART IV: PRODUCT PROFILES OF SOYBEAN

12. Soybean as an Industrial and Household Crop

Jonathan Amponsah, Francisca Addae-Frimpomaah, Frederick Leo Sossah, Theophilus Kwabla Tengey, and Abdul Rashid Issah

13. Soybean for Food and Nutrition Security

Meniari Taku, Akshay Talukdar, Rahul Kumar, Nenavath Krishna Kumar Rathod, Manisha Saini, and Sanjay Kumar Lal

14. Integral Crop for Intensifying Cropping Systems

Ammar Ali, Ammara Siddique, Raheela Rehman, Rana Arif Manzoor Khan, Azeem Iqbal Khan, Sultan Habib Ullah Khan, Hameed Alsamadany, and Zaheer Ahmed

Biography

R. Ambika Rajendran, PhD, is a Senior Scientist of Plant Breeding, Division of Genetics, Indian Council of Agricultural Research–Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Delhi, India. Dr. Rajendran has over 15 years of research experience and currently works in abiotic stress tolerance and doubled haploidy in soybeans. She has edited two books, Genetics and Breeding in Pulses and Handbook of Cereals, and has also served as an editor for a book on soybean. She has published research articles in journals and book chapters. She is also serving as a reviewer for national and international journals.

Ayyagari Ramlal, MRSB, is a Senior Doctoral Scholar at the School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia. He has worked as a Junior Research Fellow at the Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute and Banaras Hindu University, India. He also worked on an innovation research project initiated by the University of Delhi. He has received young author and the best author awards and has published research and review articles in international journals along with several book chapters. He served as an editor for the book Phytohormones in Abiotic Stress and is a review editor for the Biodiversity section of Frontiers in Young Minds.

Sanjay Kumar Lal, PhD, is a Principal Scientist at the Division of Genetics, Indian Council of Agricultural Research–Indian Agricultural Research Institute, and Coordinator of the Delhi Centre for All India Coordinated Research Project on Soybean. He has been working as an active researcher and has over 25 years of experience. His area of specialization includes soybean breeding, tissue culture, and molecular breeding. He has published over 50 articles in journals and has released several varieties of soybean, including Pusa9712 and Pusa9814.

Godfree Chigeza, PhD, is associated with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Zambia, as a Soybean Breeder. He formerly worked as breeder project lead at MRI Zambia, Syngenta, Africa and Middle East (AME). He was the project's team lead for maize breeding at the Agricultural Research Council-Grain Crops Institute, South Africa, and worked as a field trial and horticultural manager at the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products at the University of York, UK. Dr. Chigeza has a PhD in Plant Breeding from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.