Meet the editor

Minobu Kasai is a professor at Hirosaki University in Japan. He received his PhD degree from the University of Tokyo. His main research and papers are concerned with environmental physiology of higher plants, including soybean, and are mainly summarized in a chapter in A Comprehensive Survey of International Soybean Research (2013) and a mini-review in Trends in Photochemistry and Photobiology (2014).

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 23** Yield Components and Biomass Partition in Soybean: Climate Change Vision

**Chapter 3 41**

**Chapter 4 59**

**Chapter 5 69**

**Chapter 6 105**

**Chapter 7 119**

**Chapter 8 139**

Beneficial Plant Microbe Interactions and Their Effect on Nutrient Uptake,

*by Qiuyu Tang, Yahua Chen, Huizhi Gao, Qian Li, Zhenhao Xi, Ling Zhao,* 

Seedling Shoot and Root Growth Responses among Soybean (*Glycine max*)

Fungicidal Activity of Soybean Oil against Powdery Mildew on Wheat

Soybean Seed Production and Canopy Photosynthesis in Cultivation

*by Kirstin V. Wurms, Annette Ah Chee and Paul Sutherland*

*by Obed J. Mwenye, Leon Van Rensburg, Angeline Van Biljon* 

*by Constantin Georgescu, Lorena Deleanu and George Catalin Cristea*

*by Arjun Kafle, Kevin Garcia, Vincent Peta, Jaya Yakha, Alex Soupir* 

Bio-Based Epoxy Resin from Epoxidized Soybean Oil

Row Spacing and Seeding Rate Effects on Soybean Seed Yield

*by Milton E. Pereira-Flores and Flávio B. Justino*

*by Kiyoshi Nagasuga*

Contents

*and Heike Bücking*

*Chong Peng and Lanpeng Li*

Genotypes to Drought Stress

*and Rouxlene Van der Merwe*

Tribological Behavior of Soybean Oil

*by Matthew Schutte and Thandiwe Nleya*

Yield, and Stress Resistance of Soybeans

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**Chapter 9 161** Peptides and Microorganisms Isolated from Soybean Sources with Antimicrobial Activity *by Rosalva Mora-Escobedo, María Del Carmen Robles-Ramírez, Alma Delia Román-Gutiérrez, Javier Castro-Rosas, Ciro Baruchs Muñoz-Llandes and Fabiola Araceli Guzmán-Ortiz*

Preface

Plants are important for a permanent ecosystem, because in the ecological pyramid plants support all the other living organisms at the base. Very important organization is thought to be the integral process of resource, transport, partitioning, metabolism, and production, which involves yield, biomass, and productivity in plants. Accordingly, it is important to obtain more information about the knowledge

Soybean is one of the main crops largely contributing to our life, which is thought to be connected to our ecosystem through the above-mentioned integral process. This book focuses on the soybean, and reviews and research concerning the yield, biomass, and productivity of soybean are presented herein. This text updates the

Although there are many difficulties, the main aim of this book is to present a basis for the above-mentioned integral processes of resource, transport, partitioning, metabolism, and production, which involves yield, biomass, and productivity in plants (soybean), and to understand what supports this basis and the integral

**Minobu Kasai, PhD**

Department of Biology,

Hirosaki University, Japan

Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science,

Professor,

It is hoped that this and the preceding book will be essential reads.

concerning yield, biomass, and productivity in plants.

book published in 2017.

process.
