Project Details: The Other Half: Defining the Full Nutritional Bundle in Soybeans and Soybean Meal through Investigation of the Carbohydrate Fraction (2021)

2021

The Other Half: Defining the Full Nutritional Bundle in Soybeans and Soybean Meal through Investigation of the Carbohydrate Fraction

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Contributor/Checkoff:

United Soybean Board

Category:

Sustainable Production

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Parent Project:

This is the first year of this project.

Lead Principal Investigator:

Seth Naeve, University of Minnesota

Co-Principal Investigators:

George Annor, University of Minnesota

Project Code:

2120-152-0106-A

Contributing Organization (Checkoff):

United Soybean Board

$112,618

Institution Funded:

University of Minnesota

$112,618

Brief Project Summary:

Information And Results

Project Summary

Project Objectives

Project Deliverables

Progress Of Work

Updated February 23, 2021:
• This project utilizes farmer submitted soybean samples (2020 crop) from USB project # #2130-252-0403-A. Incoming samples have now been analyzed.
• 200 samples have been selected for inclusion into this study. These samples were selected to provide a diversity of composition based on several measures and to represent the wide geographies and environments where US soybeans are produced.
• Selected samples have been pulled and re-inventoried.
• Next steps:
o After the holidays, sub-samples will be submitted to Erofins for proximate analysis
o Defatted meal will be returned to Dr Anor’s lab for full carbohydrate profiling
o We expect preliminary data to be available in April, 2020
• Notes:
o We have decided to make a small change to our protocol. This change will not affect the scope of this work and will not significantly alter the type of findings.
o Briefly, rather than analyzing hull and cotyledon/axis tissue separately for all samples, we have decided to analyze whole ground soybean. This will allow broader utility of this work, as hulls and cotyledons cannot be fully separated during processing or utilization. Future analytics will conducted on whole soybean, not the parts, and hull material is always included in soybean meal. For completeness, we will conduct a full characterization of hull and cotyledon separately on 20 representative samples.

Final Project Results

Benefit To Soybean Farmers

The United Soybean Research Retention policy will display final reports with the project once completed but working files will be purged after three years. And financial information after seven years. All pertinent information is in the final report or if you want more information, please contact the project lead at your state soybean organization or principal investigator listed on the project.