Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.], an economically important dicot legume, is a member of the family Fabaceae and belongs to the genus Glycine Willd. Based on classical and molecular taxonomy, the genus Glycine has been divided into two subgenera; the subgenus Soja (Moench) F.J. Hermann includes soybean and its wild annual progenitor G. soja Sieb. & Zucc. Both species contain 2n = 40 chromosomes...

a Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla 666303, China b Key Laboratory of Biogeography and Biodiversity, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650204, China c Environment, Earth and Ecosystems, Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research, The Open University, United Kin...

Saima Aslam BHARWANA, Shafaqat ALI*, Muhammad Ahsan FAROOQ, Naeem IQBAL, Amjad HAMEED, Farhat ABBAS, Muhammad Sajid Aqeel AHMAD Department of Environmental Sciences, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan Department of Botany, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology, Faisalabad, Pakistan Department of Botany, University of A...

K.K. NEWSHAM, W.P. GOODALL-COPESTAKE, R. OCHYRA, J. VÁŇA 5 British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Bryology Laboratory, UI Lubicz 46, PL-31512, Krakow, Poland Charles University Prague, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Benátská 2, CZ-128 01 Prague 2, Czech 10 Repu...

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