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Effect of weather damage on the chemical composition of soybeans

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Journal of the American Oil Chemists Society

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Soybean samples containing a large proportion of damaged seed were separated into sound and damaged portions and these portions were then analyzed chemically.

Analysis of these samples indicated that damage to the seed caused considerable variation in percentages of oil, protein, ash, and in iodine number and acid of the oil. Sugars in the damaged portions of the soybean samples were generally low when compared with the sound portions.

Weather damaging of soybean seed caused a marked increase in percentage of crude protein. Oil percentages were sometimes higher and sometimes lower in the damaged portions. The iodine number of the oil was usually but slightly affected, and the acid number was higher in the damaged portions.

In order that the chemical analysis of the samples may be representative of the true composition of a strain, the seed analyzed should be of good quality and contain no more than a small proportion of damaged seed.

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  1. U. S. Regional Soybean Laboratory, Urbana, III

    Orland A. Krober & F. I. Collins

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  1. Orland A. Krober
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A publication by the U. S. Regional Soybean Laboratory, a cooperative organization participated in by the Division of Forage Crops and Diseases, Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering. Agricultural Research Administration, U.S.D.A. and the Agricultural Experiment Stations of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio. Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin.

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Krober, O.A., Collins, F.I. Effect of weather damage on the chemical composition of soybeans. J Am Oil Chem Soc 25, 296–298 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02637519

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