Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] sprouts are highly digestible and a year around vegetable suitable for human consumption. Sprouting process causes a number of biochemical changes inside the seed, resulting in the accumulation of various primary and secondary metabolites. Due to such changes, sprouts contain high levels of health-promoting phytochemicals as compared to other vegetables. Sprouts are an excellent source of protein, amino acids, and vitamins, which provide numerous health benefits. Due to such advantages, soybean sprouts have been preferred as a part of daily diets in Korea and quality soybean sprouts are in high demand in the edible food market. To produce high quality soybean sprouts, several factors, including the choice of the variety, health benefits from sprout phytonutrients and inherent genetic variation for the sprout-related traits of the variety need to be considered. In this review, we have summarized literature on soybean sprout components, the health benefits, changes in nutritional factors during the sprouting process and the genetic variation among the cultivars developed for sprout usage. We have also reviewed procedures and factors like seed characteristics, temperature, chemical applications that influence the sprouting process. The information collectively presented here will be useful for understanding the progress of soybean cultivars developed for soybean sprout development and use.
Soil quality is an important factor in fish pond productivity as it controls pond bottom stability, pH of overlying water and concentrations of plant nutrients required for the growth of phytoplankton. A satisfactory site for constructing fishponds is that where the soil is very deep with neutral pH, weather infiltration is very low; mineralization of organic matter takes place rapidly. The present study was carried out to assess different soil parameters in different aged ponds and to find out the relationship between different aged ponds with different bottom soil parameters. Three groups of ponds (1-5 years, 6-10 years and above 10 years) were analyzed. There was no significant change of soil pH among different aged ponds. Significant variations were observed in textural compositions of different aged group pond’s soil. Mean percentages of clay and silt were found to be increasing with the increase of pond’s age. Amount of organic matter and organic carbon also increased sharply with the increasing of pond’s age. No significant variation were found from different aged group ponds for soil pH but the amount of organic matter, organic carbon, silt and clay were significantly increased with the increasing of pond age that may deteriorate the quality of pond’s bottom soil.
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