Tropicalization of soybean
Tropicalización de la soja
- Date
- c. 1980 · confidence medium
- Place
- Embrapa Soja, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
- Credited to
- Breeders at Embrapa and Brazilian institutes
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Varieties with a long juvenile period that flower late even when days are short, together with liming of acid soils, made it possible to grow soybeans at low latitudes. They turned the Cerrado into one of the world's granaries.
What it led to
- Brazil becoming the world's leading soybean exporter
- the agricultural expansion of the Cerrado and its environmental impacts