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Article: Good breeding: The soybean industry looks to enhance health and taste with specialty breeding. (Product Focus).
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- Food Processing
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- November 1, 2002
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Each year the seed industry introduces scores of new soybean varieties, the majority of which are touted for their "Round Up Readiness" or resistance to the soybean cyst nematode, the soybean farmer's worst enemy. The emphasis, understandably, is usually on yield.
But among producers of food-grade soybean, there is a move afoot to accelerate the development and availability of "compositionally enhanced" soybeans -- varieties that result in healthier and better-tasting consumer products. In fact, several such initiatives are currently under way, many of them in the form of private/public partnerships. Last month, for instance, the United Soybean Board signed an ...