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Title: PROXIMATE COMPOSITION OF MATURE SEEDS FROM SOYBEAN PLANTS GROWN IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS

Author
item Kuo, Tsung Min
item Eskins, Kenneth
item Cooper, Richard

Submitted to: Grassland International Congress Proceedings
Publication Type: Proceedings
Publication Acceptance Date: 11/13/1996
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: The objectives of this study were to examine the influence of differences in sunlight irradiation on the accumulation of soluble oligosaccharides in mature soybean (Glycine max L.) seeds and to determine the correlations between important seed constituents. Plants were grown in field houses covered with plastic filters that varied sunlight irradiation. The most obvious effect of both blue and red deficient sunlight was a reduction in the level of stachyose and sucrose that coincided with an increase in raffinose level and decreased oil content. Blue growth house which was deficient in red light spectrum also produced seeds with an increased protein content. Our results derived from environmental conditions in both open fields and under different sunlight irradiation revealed a nonsignificant correlation between protein level and the level of stachyose or raffinose saccharides. This suggests that it may be possible to develop soybean lines that contain high protein and low raffinose saccharides.