**Meet the editor**

Dr. Aleksandra Sudarić was born in Osijek, Croatia. She received an MSc in Plant Genetics and Breeding in 1996 from the University of Zagreb and a PhD in Plant Breeding in 1999 from the University of Osijek. Dr. Sudarić is a senior research scientist at the Agricultural Institute Osijek (Croatia), Department for Breeding and Genetics of Industrial Plants where she studies the

breeding and seed production of soybean. She is presently coordinator of the soybean breeding program at the Institute. In addition, she completed the training for application of DNA-based marker technology at the University of Guelph in Guelph (Canada). Her main research interests are in the genetic improvement of quantity and quality characteristics of soybean and soybean adaptation to mega-environments. Dr. Sudarić has authored more than 100 papers (scientific, professional, and popular), several book chapters, books, and manuscripts about soybean as well as developed twenty-six soybean varieties.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Aleksandra Sudarić

**in Europe 23**

Rubio Benito

and Lingling Ma

**Sustainability Issues 131**

**and Its Products 63** Howard J. Mason

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Soybean - Quality and Utilization 1**

Chapter 2 **Soybean Amino Acids in Health, Genetics, and Evaluation 7**

Chapter 3 **Improving Seed Quality of Soybean Suitable for Growing**

Zvonimir Zdunić and Antonela Markulj Kulundžić

Chapter 4 **Respiratory Health Risks from Exposure to Dust from Soybean**

Chapter 5 **The Potential Impacts of Soy Protein on Fish Gut Health 91**

Chapter 6 **Nondestructive Evaluation of Inoculation Effects of AMF and**

**Cameroonian Cotton Basin between the Dynamics of**

**from Reflectance Spectroscopy 117**

Chapter 7 **Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) Production in the**

**Structuring an Agricultural Value Chain and**

Eric Joël Fofiri Nzossié and Christophe Bring

Aleksandra Sudarić, Maja Matoša Kočar, Tomislav Duvnjak,

William Monte Singer, Bo Zhang, M.A. Rouf Mian and Haibo Huang

Vikas Kumar, Md. Sakhawat Hossain, Janice A. Ragaza and Marina

**Bradyrhizobium japonicum on Soybean under Drought Stress**

Weiping Kong, Yinli Bi, Wenjiang Huang, Lingli Tang, Chuanrong Li
