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Soybean Cultivation and BBF in China

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Nitrogen Fixation in Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology, and the Environment

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Soybean production in China is key to improving living standards for many farmers. Although Chinese soybean acreage ranks fourth in the world, its productivity is clearly lower than that of western soybean-producing countries. Research efforts have been mainly directed at collecting and characterising soybean varieties and soybean-rhizobia strains that form nitrogen-fixing nodules with this legume. Most of the soybean-cropping areas of China contain high levels of indigenous soybean-rhizobia, which represent a constraint for the successful use of soybean inoculants. Information from field experiments in China using soybean inoculants is not abundant. In contrast to reports on the failure of the inoculants to increase soybean productivity, there are also some reports that indicate that soybean inoculants might be successfully used for such a purpose. Due to the strong cultivar specificity exhibited by soybean-rhizobia and the fact that large collections of bacterial strains and soybean varieties are available, it might be possible to identify soybean cultivars that, while highly effective with a particular set of soybean-rhizobial strains, are also poorly nodulated by the indigenous soybean-rhizobia populations of a particular soil. The quality of the inoculants used and the way they are applied are also important questions that need to be thoroughly evaluated if this sustainable option is to become preferred over chemical fertilisation.

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  1. Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Sevilla, Apdo-1095, 41080, Sevilla, Spain

    J. E. Ruiz Sainz & J. M. Vinardell

  2. Department of Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Shi Zi Shan Street, P.O. Box 430070, Wuhan, China

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  3. Centro de Investigación y Formación Agraria “Las Torres y Tomejil”, Apartado Oficial, 41200, Alcalá del Río, Sevilla, Spain

    D.-N. Rodriguez-Navarro

  4. Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK

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Ruiz Sainz, J.E., Zhou, J.C., Rodriguez-Navarro, DN., Vinardell, J.M., Thomas-Oates, J.E. (2005). Soybean Cultivation and BBF in China. In: Werner, D., Newton, W.E. (eds) Nitrogen Fixation in Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology, and the Environment. Nitrogen Fixation: Origins, Applications, and Research Progress, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3544-6_5

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