North American soybean originates from Swedish village

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) screened the American soybean looking for tolerances to ozone and other stresses and discovered its ancestry is not American but Swedish. To be exact the ancestors of the soybean came from a village in the far northern region of Sweden called Fiskeby.

After analysing thousands of plants, Carter found 30 plant ancestors that accounted for 92 percent of the genetic material in the North American soybean. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine and the International Milling Directory from Perendale Publishers