"Soybean: The Basis of Yield, Biomass and Productivity" ed. by Minobu Kasai

This book is expected to be useful for many people. Of course, more researches and investigations are important to further gain the knowledge concerning the basis of yield, biomass, and productivity and make them useful for our ecosystem.

Soybean is one of the organisms largely contributing to our life. Therefore, it is important to know soybean from various aspects. The knowledge and soybean itself will be greatly useful, if they are soundly used.

The chapters constituting this book present reviews and researches especially concerning the basis of yield, biomass, and productivity in soybean. Yield, biomass, and productivity in plants are some of the bases for maintaining or improving our ecosystem which includes our life and surrounding environments.

Contents
1 Soybean Yield Responses to Micronutrient Fertilizers
2 Soybean Architecture Plants: From Solar Radiation Interception to Crop Protection
3 Strategies of Chemical Protection for Controlling Soybean Rust
4 Inoculation with Bradyrhizobium sp. and Azospirillum brasilense Associated with Application of Cobalt and Molybdenum on Nutrition and Soybean Yield
5 Challenges of In Vitro and In Vivo Agrobacterium-Mediated Genetic Transformation in Soybean
6 Nematodes Affecting Soybean and Sustainable Practices for Their Management
7 Application and Conversion of Soybean Hulls
8 Effects of Drought and Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide on Seed Nutrition and 15N and 13C Natural Abundance Isotopes in Soybean Under Controlled Environments
9 Role of Nitrogen on Growth and Seed Yield of Soybean and a New Fertilization Technique to Promote Nitrogen Fixation and Seed Yield
10 Production of Soybean-Derived Feed Material Free from Salmonella Contamination: An Essential Food Safety Challenge
11 Soybean: For Textile Applications and Its Printing