Liaoning Bean 36

Features and Characteristics:

The soybean variety has a semi-prostrate growth habit, with plants compact in shape, reaching about 85 cm in height. It has 4-6 branches and 19-21 nodes on the main stem. The leaves are round, covered with gray-white hair, and the flowers are purple. The pods are evenly distributed, with fresh pods being a bright green color. A single plant can produce up to 150-200 pods, with most being three-seeded pods. The seed coat is yellow, and the hilum is white. The weight per hundred seeds is 26-28 grams, with a fat content of 23.07% and a protein content of 43.82%. It is a high-yielding variety, with a growth period of about 130 days (in Liaoning region). Compared to other varieties, it can yield an average increase of over 20%-30%. In the autumn of 2016, the high-yielding planting test reached a yield of 866 catties per mu. Suitable for planting in soybean producing areas across the country.