The word "soybeans" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used when referring to the edible seeds of the soybean plant, often in agricultural or nutritional contexts.
Example: "Farmers are increasingly turning to soybeans as a sustainable crop option."
Alternatives: "soya beans" or "edamame."
While genetically engineered corn and soybeans are routinely grown, they are largely consumed by animals, while wheat is consumed directly by people and has faced more consumer resistance.
For the sheer scale of GM in the US, take this: Three crops (corn, cotton, and soybeans) make up the bulk of the acres planted to GE crops.
It is becoming increasingly clear that this drought will take a significant toll on some of the nation's principal food crops, especially corn, wheat, and soybeans.
In 2011 it became the world's largest importer of agricultural products, powered by its demand for soybeans, a feedstock for pigs.But China's openness to soy contrasts with the barricades it erects around what it deems to be key foods.
To meet just America's one-third share would require all the arable land in the country (some 470m acres) be planted with soybeans for biodiesel.Few countries have anything like enough arable land to feed themselves and grow biofuels at the same time.
That makes tailoring bugs to synthesise specific hydrocarbons a whole lot easier.Unlike the biofuel produced by distilling witches brews of soybeans or corn, Amyris's hydrocarbons are engineered to have precisely the same molecular structure as their oil-based equivalents and are hence one-for-one replacements for fuels on the forecourt today.
This should be finished by the start of 2011 and will cut several weeks of travel time for Brazil's exports of soybeans and minerals.
Among Latin America's ten biggest exports to Asia are poultry, sugar beet, soya oil, vegetable oils and soybeans.
Jeffrey Currie of Goldman Sachs worries that, as American oil demand recovers, it will "bump up against" China, which is consuming 23% more oil than it did in 2007 as well as 63% more copper, 18% more cotton and soybeans and a few more cases of wine too (see next article).
Genes from brazil nuts and petunias have been inserted into soybeans, daffodil genes in rice, and potato genes in maize (corn).
The expected boost in production from sharply higher prices in recent years has been constrained by adverse weather, with drought in America, Australia and eastern Europe scorching harvests of grains and soybeans.
