Vegetable soybean: seed composition and production research

Abstract

Vegetable soybean (edamame) [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] is a low input, high nutritional value, short crop cycle and soil-enriching profitable crop. It offers quick economic return and provides health benefits to the consumers. The market demand for edamame has begun to flourish and expand dramatically in recent decades due to increased awareness of nutritional properties, and the change in life styles towards healthier food. This article highlighted the importance of edamame as a nutraceutical and functional food-grade produce, summarised the research advances in seed composition and their roles, cultivar selection and crop establishment, planting date and fertilisation, weed management and harvesting. Current production problem of extensive labour at harvest and future research challenges in improving crop establishment, developing cultivars competitive to weed and resistant to pest insects/diseases, assessing biological activities of edamame elemental and phytochemical properties on cancer cell inhibition, and developing organic production system were also proposed with aims of enhancing farm profitability and expanding opportunities for extensive use of edamame.

Vegetable soybean, edamame: Research, production, utilization and analysis of its adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa

“…Although, night temperatures match more temperate climate than tropical warm climate, edamame can be produced in Sub-Saharan Africa including Benin. In countries where bradyrhizobia (Bradyrhizobium japonicum) is not native, the application of 10 g of inoculant per kg of seeds enables boosting nitrogen fixation (Agoyi et al, 2017;Zhang et al, 2017), and thus circumventing nodulation failure. Another way to overcome nodulation failure would be the identification of promiscuous vegetable soybean cultivars, as this would enable achieving high yield without requiring the application of inoculant on seeds prior to sowing (Agoyi et al, 2016(Agoyi et al, , 2017(Agoyi et al, , 2018.…”

“…Hand weeding and preemergence herbicide application are mainly used for weeds control, but hand weeding depends on the availability of casual labor (Esler, 2011) which might lead to higher cost. Zhang et al (2017) highlighted the need for more research to address this constraint by developing weed tolerant edamame varieties. Besides, labor shortage during harvesting can lead to significant yield loss during edamame production, as non-timely harvesting causes hardening of pods and seeds, leading to the crop failure.…”

“…Long term storage consists in maintaining pods or beans in frozen form after blanching. The cold storage of fresh beans and pods proved successful in many countries including Australia (James, 2007), United States (Wszelaki et al, 2005;Pao et al, 2008;Carson et al, 2011;Jiang et al, 2018), Taiwan (Shanlnugasundaram et al, 1992), India (Kumar et al, 2011), Thailand (Sarutayophat, 2012), China (Li et al, 2013;Zhang et al, 2017), Argentina (Benavidez et al, 2010) and Latvian (Zeipiņa et al, 2017). Most authors reported on blanching as pre-treatment before cold storage, with various target advantages.…”

Comparación de protocolos de aislamiento de DNA a partir de semilla de soya

“…En contraste, con el uso de soluciones de CTAB al 1 y 3% y sarcosina, los valores sugieren muestras de DNA con pureza de baja calidad, como se observa en el Cuadro 1. De acuerdo con reportes previos, valores bajos en esta relación indican la presencia de inhibidores de PCR, como pueden ser los polisacáridos (Demeke y Jenkins, 2010), lo cual puede deberse al contenido de sacarosa, fructosa, rufinosa y estaquiosa, que corresponden al 25% de la composición de las semillas de soya (De Luna-Jiménez, 2007) incrementando hasta 48% en algunas variedades (Zhang et al, 2017), y que no son eliminados por completo durante el proceso de aislamiento. Con el uso de CTAB, cloroformo y las enzimas α-amilasa, pectinasa, celulasa y hemicelulasa los azúcares pueden ser removidos (Demeke y Jenkins, 2010).…”

Integrated weed management strategies with cereal rye mulch in processing vegetable legumes

“…(also known as vegetable soybean), lima bean (Phaseolous lunatus L.), and snap bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), are constituents of a dynamic market in the United States that contributes significantly Zivanovic, & Deyton, 2012;Soyfoods, 2019). According to Zhang, Li, Chin, and Qi (2017), edamame consumption in the United States was about 25,000 tons in 2013. In addition, United Soybean Board forecasts indicate greater edamame increases compared with other soy products in the future (Shockley et al, 2011), with a premium average economic return threefold greater than grain-type soybean (Zhang, Li, & Liu, 2013).…”