Chapter 18 **Climatic Conditions and Production of Soybean in Northeastern Brazil 377**

Jeandson Silva Viana, Edilma Pereira Gonçalves, Abraão Cicero Silva and Valderez Pontes Matos

### **Section 4 Soybean Genetics 393**

**Section 3 Soybean Agronomy and Physiology 181**

Chapter 10 **Drought Stress and Tolerance in Soybean 209**

Chapter 11 **Biologically Active Constituents of Soybean 239**

Chapter 12 **Cell Death Signaling From the Endoplasmic Reticulum**

Pedro A.B. Reis and Elizabeth P. B. Fontes

Chapter 13 **Soybean Under Water Deficit: Physiological and Yield**

Chapter 14 **Interaction of Photosynthetic Source-Sink Balance and**

Minobu Kasai and Wataru Takahashi

Chapter 16 **Explanations for the Rise of Soybean in Brazil 341**

Silveira Pinto and Felipe Gustavo Pilau

Eduardo Antonio Gavioli

**Activities of Membrane H+ Pumps in Soybean 299**

Chapter 15 **Soybean Urease: Over a Hundred Years of Knowledge 317**

Chapter 17 **Climatic Restrictions for Maximizing Soybean Yields 367**

**Natural Products 183**

**VI** Contents

**in Soybean 261**

**Responses 273**

P. Soratto

Chapter 8 **Molecular Design of Soybean Lipoxygenase Inhibitors Based on**

Hilton S. Pinto, Ana Maria H. de Avila and Andrea O. Cardoso

Yee-Shan Ku, Wan-Kin Au-Yeung, Yuk-Lin Yung, Man-Wah Li,

Gustavo M. Souza, Tiago A. Catuchi, Suzana C. Bertolli and Rogerio

Rafael Real-Guerra, Fernanda Stanisçuaski and Célia Regina Carlini

Ana Maria Heuminski de Avila, José Renato Bouças Farias, Hilton

Isao Kubo, Tae Joung Ha and Kuniyoshi Shimizu

Chapter 9 **Challenges to Increased Soybean Production in Brazil 199**

Chao-Qing Wen, Xueyi Liu and Hon-Ming Lam

Tzi Bun Ng, Randy Chi Fai Cheung and Jack Ho Wong

