Plant Science & Botany

Soybean, Volume 2
History, Taxonomy, Genetics, Breeding, Diseases, and Biotechnology,

Editors: R. Ambika Rajendran, PhD
Ayyagari Ramlal, MRSB
Sanjay Kumar Lal, PhD
Chigeza Godfree, PhD

Soybean, Volume 2

In Production
Pub Date: Forthcoming August 2025
Hardback Price: $240 US | £180 UK
Hard ISBN: 9781998511723
Pages: Est. 377pp w/index
Binding Type: Hardback / ebook
Notes: 13 color and 4 b/w illustrations

Soybean is a protein-packed functional food used widely as both food and feed crops. Despite its many medicinal, culinary, as well as various agronomical complementary traits, it is vulnerable to various abiotic and biotic stresses. This new two-volume set, Soybean: History, Taxonomy, Genetics, Breeding, Diseases, and Biotechnology, provides comprehensive coverage of many aspects of soybean, its utilities, vulnerabilities, and most recent discoveries.

The first volume emphasizes aspects of taxonomy, domestication of soybean, and its evolution. Comprised of four sections, it covers the history, taxonomy, distribution, and economic importance of soybeans. It also discusses soybean breeding, seed systems, product development as well as product profiles of soybean.

The second volume looks at the current trends, genomic information, conventional breeding techniques along with their challenges, and the need for modern methods in the cultivation of soybeans. This volume explores the genetics, genomics, and proteomics of soybeans, discussing advances and improvements in soybeans, soybean diseases, the use of soybeans in medicine, and other future uses of soybeans.

Together, this two-volume set provides a holistic approach and covers a wide range of areas of both research and interest for soybean crop improvement. The volumes will prove beneficial for agriculturalists, plant physiologists, biotechnologists, and particularly soybean breeders.

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CONTENTS:
Preface

PART I: SOYBEAN GENOMICS, PROTEOMICS, AND TOOLS
1. Soybean Genetics Emphasizing Chromosome and Genome Organization

Meniari Taku, Pulak Debbarma, Rahul Kumar Shah, Manisha Saini, Ayyagari Ramlal, and Akshay Talukdar

2. Grain Structure Composition and Characteristics
Rahul Kumar, Manisha Saini, Meniari Taku, Pulak Debbarma, Rohit Kumar Mahto, Deepshikha Sharma, Santoshi Rawat, Purnima Ray, and Akshay Talukdar

3. Qualitative and Quantitative Traits of Soybean
Nisha Agarwal, Shivakumar M., Nataraj V., Giriraj Kumawat, Priya Meghwal, Satish Nagar, and Milind B. Ratnaparkhe

4. Soybean Protein Quality and Its Improvement
Bingi Pujari Mallikarjuna, Suresha P. G., Shivakumar Maranna, S. K. Lal, K. Gopalakrishna Naidu, Akshay Talukdar, Ambika Rajendran, and Manisha Saini

5. Soybean Databases: A Means to Explore Soybean Information
Ashlesha Manta, Divya Sharma, Aakash Singh, Byonkesh Nongthongbam, Fatima Nazish Khan, Ayyagari Ramlal, Nisha Sogan, Sourav Singh Deo, and Aparna Nautiyal

PART II: IMPROVEMENTS IN SOYBEAN
6. Oil Quality Improvement in Soybean

Raman Pushpa, Palanivelu Sathya, Aravindan Shanmugam, Kalaiarasan Manivelan, and Balamurugan Mohanapriya

7. Herbicide-Tolerant Soybean: Past, Present, and Future
Preeti Gupta, Anjana Rustagi, and Prem Kumar Gupta

8. Molecular Tools for the Improvement of Oil Quality in Soybean
Viswabharathy Sakthivel, Chandrasekaran Deepika, Ponnuchamy Magudeeswari, Subramanian Divya, Pranay Gundala, Raman Pushpa, Murugesan Dhandapani, and Aravindan Shanmugam

9. In Vitro Intervention in Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.]
Shivam Raj, Sumit Kumar Kashyap, Rayees Ahmad Bhat, Ayyagari Ramlal, S K Lal, Dhandapani Raju, Sreeramanan Subramaniam, and Ambika Rajendran

PART III: SOYBEAN DISEASES AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS
10. Pathogens of Soybean: Symptoms, Crop Losses, and Biotechnological Strategies to Control

Megha Kumari, Shrishti Naidu, and Archana Singh

11. Enhancing Soybean Production Through Genetic Engineering and Molecular Breeding: A Review of Soybean Pests and Their Management Strategies
Manisha Yadav, Indrakant K. Singh, and Archana Singh

12. Abiotic Factors Influencing Yield and Productivity of Soybean
Ponnuchamy Magudeeswari, Vani Praveena M., Aravindan Shanmugam, Balamurugan Mohanapriya, and Raman Pushpa

13. Physiological and Biochemical Responses to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses and Adaptations in Soybean
Jhilick Banerjee, Pawan K. Amrate, Riya Mishra, Vennampally Nataraj, M. K. Shrivastava, Akash Barela, and Shivani Jawarkar

PART IV: SOYBEAN IN MEDICINE
14. Soybean in Medicine

Sumit Kumar Kashyap, Raja Sekhar Reddy Noru, Amooru Harika, Raj Vrajesh Kothari, Ayyagari Ramlal, Ambika Rajendran, and S. K. Lal

PART V: FUTURE OF SOYBEAN
15. Soybean: The Path Ahead

Ayyagari Ramlal, R. Ambika Rajendran, Sanjay Kumar Lal, and Chigeza Godfree

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: R. Ambika Rajendran, PhD
Senior Scientist of Plant Breeding, Division of Genetics, Indian Council of Agricultural Research–Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Delhi, India

R. Ambika Rajendran, PhD, is a Senior Scientist of Plant Breeding in the Division of Genetics at the Senior Scientist of Plant Breeding, Division of Genetics, Indian Council of Agricultural Research–Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Delhi, India. She was the Directorate of Maize Research (DMR), New Delhi (currently referred to as the Indian Institute of Maize Research [IIMR], Punjab, India) from 2009 until 2016. Later, she joined the Division of Genetics, IARI, as a scientist in a senior scale in 2016. She has over 15 years of research experience. She currently works in abiotic stress tolerance and doubled haploidy in soybeans. She worked in maize breeding for high oil along with baby corn. Her significant research includes heterotic grouping and patterning of quality protein maize using molecular markers, in vitro mutagenesis in rice, identification of sources of high oil post-Fusarium stalk rot resistance genetic stocks in maize, and identification of tolerant sources for pre-germination anaerobic stress tolerance in soybean. She has edited two books and also served as an editor for a book on soybean. She has many peer-reviewed research articles published in journals of international and national repute and book chapters to her credit. She is also serving as a reviewer for various national and international journals. She earned her bachelor degree from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Tamil Nadu, India, her master’s degree from Kerala Agricultural University (KAU), Kerala, India, and her doctorate from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU).

Ayyagari Ramlal, MRSB
Doctoral Scholar, School of Biological Science, University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Ayyagari Ramlal, MRSB, is a doctoral scholar at the School of Biological Science, University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. He has worked as a junior research fellow at the Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-IARI), Delhi, India, and Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Uttar Pradesh, India. He also worked on an innovation research project initiated by the University of Delhi. He has received young scientist and best author awards from different societies/organizations in India. He has published more than 20 peer-reviewed research and review articles in international journals of repute and many book chapters. He served as an editor for the book Phytohormones in Abiotic Stress and is currently serving as a reviewer for many international and national journals of repute and as a review editor for the section on niodiversity for the journal Frontiers for Young Minds. He is a member of the Royal Society of Biology, UK. He completed his bachelor’s and master’s in Botany at the University of Delhi, Delhi, India.

Sanjay Kumar Lal, PhD
Principal Scientist, Division of Genetics, Indian Council of Agricultural Research–Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India

Sanjay Kumar Lal, PhD, is a Principal Scientist at the Division of Genetics, Indian Council of Agricultural Research–Indian Agricultural Research Institute, and Coordinator of the Delhi Centre for All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) on Soybean. He is also the group/project leader for genetic enhancement of soybean. He has been working as an active researcher and possesses over 25 years of experience in conducting and doing research. His area of specialization includes soybean breeding, tissue culture, and molecular breeding. He has published over 50 original articles in journals of repute. He has released several varieties of soybean including Pusa9712 and Pusa9814. He has also guided many students including masters and supervised doctoral theses.

Chigeza Godfree, PhD
Soybean Breeder, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Lusaka, Zambia

Godfree Chigeza, PhD, is currently associated with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Lusaka, Zambia, as a soybean breeder. Prior to this appointment, he worked as breeder project lead at MRI Zambia, Syngenta Africa and Middle East (AME). He was the projects team lead for maize breeding at the Agricultural Research Council-Grain Crops Institute, Potchefstroom, South Africa, and worked as a field trial and horticultural manager at the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) Department of Biology, University of York, UK. Dr. Chigeza has a PhD in Plant Breeding from the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. He received his MPhil in Agricultural Sciences and graduate diploma in Agricultural Sciences (Plant Breeding and Biotechnology) at the University of Queensland, Australia. He earned his graduate diploma in Seed Technology and BSc in Agricultural Crop Science at the University of Zimbabwe.




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