Japanese soybeans have been bred for centuries for traditional soy-based food production. A pangenome study using genome data from 462 soybeans worldwide revealed distinct genomic features in Japanese soybeans, as well as several quantitative trait loci alleles that are important for breeding cultivars suited to traditional soy-based foods.
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Fig. 1: SV- and SNP-based GWASs for seed size variation.
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This is a summary of: Yano, R. et al. The genomic landscape of gene-level structural variations in Japanese and global soybean Glycine max cultivars. Nat. Genet. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-025-02113-5 (2025).
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