Examples of soybean

• The bill did allow producers to update their historical production bases and yields, and soybean was included for the first time.

• Positive significant shares of soybeans, sugarcane, tobacco, cotton, and fruits18 suggest higher pesticide usage on most of the major cash crops for export.

• The most important genetically engineered crops that have been introduced contained genes encoding insect resistance and herbicide tolerance; they were soybean, maize, cotton and canola.

• Analyses of variance showed that there was no significant interaction between maize and soybean densities for any of the characters studied.

• There were distinct changes in water status between viable and non-viable soybean seeds.

• In 2002, more than 60 per cent of all corn, soybean and cotton was planted in transgenic varieties.

• Farmers grow important cash crops such as cotton, wheat, and soybeans in both soil types.

• Four replications of each of the three cropping systems were evaluated: continuous wheat, continuous soybean and a soybean-wheat-soybean 2-year rotation.

• These included crop rotations for corn, soybeans and wheat, planting and harvesting dates, tillage and fertilizer operations.

• The responses are estimated as losses of 26-29 % for soybean, wheat and cotton, and 31, 37 and 40 % for maize, rice and potatoes, respectively.

• Three phases of dark-recovery course from photoinhibition resolved by the chlorophyll fluorescence analysis in soybean leaves under field conditions.

• Soybean exhibited no photosynthetic adaptation to shade, but the specific leaf area was greater in artificially shaded and intercropped plants.

• The current information is valuable for soybean breeding programmes for seed composition improvement.

• One portion of the program always dealt with the commodities market - corn, soybeans, and hog bellies.

• Farmers reported that the need to thresh soybean at the homestead made it a more difficult legume crop to bury.