Taxon: Glycine max (L.) Merr.

Common names:

• soya   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• soya-bean   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• soybean   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• soja   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Sojabohne   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• shoyu   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• soja   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• frijol de soya   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• haba soya   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• soja   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (soy sauce fide Pl Book)
  
• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Leg WAsia)
  
• Human food: oil/fat; pulse; starch   (fide Edible Nuts; Pl Book)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Pl Book)
  
• Fuels: potential as petroleum substitute/alcohol   (fide web document)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (only trichloroethylene-extracted soybean-oil meal fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (G. gracilis form fide Pl Book)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Glycine max from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• widely naturalized

• widely cultivated

• origin e. Asia

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. (F CambLVN)
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Hermann, F. J. 1962. A revision of the genus Glycine and its immediate allies. Techn. Bull. U.S.D.A. 1268:39.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Lock, J. M. & K. Simpson. 1991. Legumes of West Asia: a checklist. (Leg WAsia)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Rosengarten, F. 1984. The book of edible nuts. (Edible Nuts)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Glycine max.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Glycine max. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Dolichos soja L.
  
• (=) Glycine gracilis Skvortsov
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Glycine hispida (Moench) Maxim.
  (previously associated with 1568 accessions)
• (=) Glycine hispida var. brunnea Skvortsov
  
• (=) Glycine hispida var. lutea Skvortsov
  
• (=) Glycine soja (L.) Merr.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Phaseolus max L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 16 accessions)
• (=) Soja hispida Moench
  
• (≡) Soja max (L.) Piper
  (previously associated with 7588 accessions)

Check other databases for Glycine max (L.) Merr.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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