“…With the increasing shortage of nonrenewable resources and the recent growing concerns about environmental protection (Xiao et al, 2023), the need to replace conventional petroleum-based adhesives, which have proved to have a signi cant impact on the environment as well as on human health, has been pushing towards the abandon of synthetic resins (Tene Tayo et al, 2022), and the development bio-based adhesives have become an important goal for the wood-based panel industry (Guigo et al, 2010;Arbenz and Avérous, 2015;Xu et al, 2020;Hussin et al, 2022). In recent decades, extensive research has been done on bio-based adhesives, with focus on protein adhesives (Li et al, 2022a(Li et al, , 2022bChen et al, 2023),tannin adhesives (Gholami et al, 2021;Xu et al, 2023), lignin adhesives (Gonçalves et al, 2021;Siahkamari et al, 2022;Peng et al, 2023), and starch adhesives (Din et al, 2020;Maulana et al, 2022;Watcharakitti et al, 2022). Although soy has received extensive attention and has been so far one the most promising protein source for the development of bio adhesive, concerns raised about the competition between bio-based products and human food and animal feed (Li et al, 2012a) somehow shows the limitation of soy as alternative for replacing formaldehyde-containing adhesives.…”