**Abbreviations**

Silencing (VIGS) for functional genomics approaches (*e. g.* , Zhang and Ghabrial, 2006). Fur‐ thermore, soybean has a large germplasm, including vast mutant (Figure 2; *e. g.* , Carroll et al., 1985; Bolon et al., 2011) and TILLING populations (*e. g.* , Cooper et al., 2008; Batley et al.,

A Comprehensive Survey of International Soybean Research - Genetics, Physiology, Agronomy and Nitrogen

**Figure 3.** Glasshouse grown soybean plants 1 and 3 weeks after germination. The fast, uniform growth of soybean, together with the availability of its genome sequence and its amenability to most physiological, molecular and bio‐

chemical analyses makes it an ideal model species for legume research.

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AON (Autoregulation Of Nodulation);

CLE (CLV3/ESR-related peptide);

NARK (Nodulation Autoregulation Receptor Kinase);

NIC (Nitrogen-Induced CLE peptide);

Nod Factor (Nodulation Factor);

RIC (Rhizobia-Induced CLE peptide);

RNAseq (RNA sequencing);

SDI (Shoot Derived Inhibitor)
