Which crops originated in China

The crop soybean originated in China.

Soybeans are native to China and are cultivated throughout China, as well as being widely cultivated around the world. Soybean is one of China's important food crops, has been five thousand years of cultivation history, the ancient name of beans, Northeast China for the main producing areas, is a kind of its seeds are rich in plant protein crops, soybean protein content of 35% to 40%. Soybeans are most commonly used to make a variety of soybean products, extract soybean oil, brewing soy sauce and protein extraction.

The soybean is an annual herbaceous plant and is the most important legume in the world. Regarding the origin of soybeans, most Chinese scholars believe that the place of origin is around the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. There are also many botanists who believe that it is derived from the Ussuri soybean, which originated in China. Cultivated soybeans now grown are domesticated from wild soybeans through long-term directional selection and improvement.2023 In April 2023, the National Breeding Joint Tackle Wheat, Corn and Soybean Tackle Group initiated the implementation of the Substantial Derived Variety (EDV) System Pilot.

Introduction of Soybean

Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) is an annual herb of the genus Soybean in the family Leguminosae, 30-90 centimeters tall. Soybean protein content is 35%-40%. Genetically modified soybean: is rolled and rounded. Soybean stems are stout, erect, and densely covered with long brown hard hairs.

Leaves usually 3-foliolate; stipules veined, yellow pilose; petiole 2-20 cm long; leaflets broadly ovate, papery; racemes shorter few-flowered, longer many-flowered; racemes usually with 5-8 sessile, tightly crowded flowers; bracts lanceolate, strigose; bracteoles lanceolate, ambiguously bristly; calyx lanceolate, flowers purple, lavender, or white, petaloid at base, winged petals castor-like The flowers are purple, lilac or white, basally petiolate, the winged petals castoriform.

Pods plump, slightly curved, pendulous, yellowish green, densely covered with tawny long hairs; 2-5 seeds, ellipsoid, subglobose, with smooth seed coat, diversified in light green, yellow, brown and black. Flowering period June-July, fruiting period July-September.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Soybean (Soybean, family Leguminosae)