Taxon: Glycine max (L.) Merr.

Common names:

• edamame   (Source: HortTechnology ) – English
  
• soya   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• soya-bean   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• soybean   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• da dou   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• soja   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Sojabohne   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• soia   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• daizu   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• kong   (Source: Kulturpflanze 34:101.) – Transcribed Korean
  
• soja   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• frijol de soya   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• haba soya   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• soja   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• sojaböna   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (soy sauce fide Pl Book; Edible Nuts)
  
• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Leg WAsia)
  
• Human food: oil/fat   (fide Pl Book)
  
• Human food: pulse   (fide Edible Nuts)
  
• Human food: starch   (fide Edible Nuts)
  
• 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: 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).
• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Carson, L. C. et al. 2011. Cultivar evaluation and lipid and protein contents of Virginia-grown edamame. HortTechnol. 21:181–185.
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Hermann, F. J. 1962. A revision of the genus Glycine and its immediate allies. Techn. Bull. U.S.D.A. 1268:39.
• International Energy Agency. 2004. Biofuels for transport: an international perspective. (on-line resource). 1–216.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Lock, J. M. & K. Simpson. 1991. Legumes of West Asia: a checklist.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:101–102.
• Natural Products Research Institute, Seoul National University. 1998. Medicinal plants in the Republic of Korea. WHO Regional Publications Western Pacific Series No. 21.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Rosengarten, F. 1984. The book of edible nuts. 324–327.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Glycine max.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Glycine max.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Glycine max.

Synonyms:

• (=) Dolichos soja L.
  
• (=) Glycine gracilis Skvortsov
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• (=) 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 7618 accessions)

Check other web resources for Glycine max (L.) Merr.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• 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.

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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