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Oil painting comparing two soybean varieties. Left panel: adaptive traditional plant with smaller, flexible, winding roots in clay soil. Right panel: high-yield modern plant with larger, rigid, straight roots and heavy bean pods, illustrating the trade-off between productivity and environmental resilience.

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The Underground Trade-Off: What We Lost When We Bred Better Soybeans

PopBiology Owl Mar 10, 2026 0

New research reveals that decades of breeding for bigger yields may have cost soybean plants their ability to adapt their…

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