Editing Soybean (section)

== Taxonomy ==
The genus ''Glycine'' may be divided into two subgenera, ''[[Glycine (subgenus)|Glycine]]'' and ''[[Soja (subgenus)|Soja]]''. The subgenus ''Soja'' includes the cultivated soybean, ''G.&nbsp;max'', and the wild soybean, treated either as a separate species ''[[Glycine soja|G.&nbsp;soja]]'',<ref name="SingNelsChun06">{{cite book |last1=Singh |first1=Ram J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lQ9bcjETlrIC&pg=PA15 |title=Genetic Resources, Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement: Oilseed Crops, Volume 4 |last2=Nelson |first2=Randall L. |last3=Chung |first3=Gyuhwa |date=November 2, 2006 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-8493-3639-3 |location=[[London]] |page=15}}</ref> or as the subspecies ''G.&nbsp;max'' subsp. ''soja''.<ref name="POWO_920989-1">{{cite web |title=''Glycine max subsp. soja'' (Siebold & Zucc.) H.Ohashi |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:920989-1 |access-date=2023-01-28 |work=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew}}</ref> The cultivated and wild soybeans are [[Annual plant|annuals]]. The wild soybean is native to [[China]], [[Japan]], [[Korea]] and [[Russia]].<ref name="SingNelsChun06" /> The subgenus ''Glycine'' consists of at least 25 wild [[perennial]] species: for example, ''[[Glycine canescens|G. canescens]]'' and ''[[Glycine tomentella|G. tomentella]]'', both found in [[Australia]] and [[Papua New Guinea]].<ref>{{cite conference |last=Hymowitz |first=Theodore |date=August 9, 1995 |editor-last=Sinclair |editor-first=J.B. |editor2-last=Hartman |editor2-first=G.L. |title=Evaluation of Wild Perennial ''Glycine'' Species and Crosses For Resistance to Phakopsora |location=[[Urbana, IL]], US |publisher=National Soybean Research Laboratory |pages=33–37 |book-title=Proceedings of the Soybean Rust Workshop}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Newell |first1=C.A. |last2=Hymowitz |first2=T. |date=March 1983 |title=Hybridization in the Genus ''Glycine'' Subgenus ''Glycine'' Willd. (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae) |journal=[[American Journal of Botany]] |volume=70 |issue=3 |pages=334–48 |doi=10.2307/2443241 |jstor=2443241}}</ref> Perennial soybean (''[[Neonotonia wightii]]'') belongs to a different genus. It originated in Africa and is now a widespread pasture crop in the tropics.<ref>Heuzé V., Tran G., Giger-Reverdin S., Lebas F., 2015. Perennial soybean (''Neonotonia wightii''). Feedipedia, a programme by [[Institut national de la recherche agronomique|INRA]], [[CIRAD]], Association Française de Zootechnie and [[FAO]]. https://www.feedipedia.org/node/293 Last updated on September 30, 2015, 15:09</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=''Neonotonia wightii'' in Global Plants on JSTOR |url=https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/Neonotonia.wightii |website=Global Plants on JSTOR}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Factsheet – ''Neonotonia wightii'' |url=http://www.tropicalforages.info/key/Forages/Media/Html/Neonotonia_wightii.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170601233037/http://tropicalforages.info/key/Forages/Media/Html/Neonotonia_wightii.htm |archive-date=June 1, 2017 |access-date=January 19, 2014 |work=tropicalforages.info}}</ref>

Like some other crops of long domestication, the relationship of the modern soybean to wild-growing species can no longer be traced with any degree of certainty.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Shekhar, Hossain |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H2m_DAAAQBAJ&q=the+relationship+of+the+modern+soybean+to+wild-growing+species+can+no+longer+be+traced+with+any+degree+of+certainty&pg=PA223 |title=Exploring the Nutrition and Health Benefits of Functional Foods |author2=Uddin, Howlader |author3=Zakir Hossain |author4=Kabir, Yearul |date=July 22, 2016 |publisher=IGI Global |isbn=978-1-5225-0592-1 |page=223 |access-date=22 November 2017}}</ref> It is a [[cultigen]] with a very large number of [[cultivar]]s.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Ghulam Raza |author2=Mohan B. Singh |author3=Prem L. Bhalla |date=June 11, 2017 |editor1-last=Atanassov |editor1-first=Atanas |title=In Vitro Plant Regeneration from Commercial Cultivars of Soybean |journal=[[BioMed Research International]] |volume=2017 |page=7379693 |doi=10.1155/2017/7379693 |pmc=5485301 |pmid=28691031 |doi-access=free}}</ref>