Report
Edamame
PNW (Series), 525, Washington State University Extension
02/2018
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/12909
Abstract
Edamame is a specialty vegetable soybean that originated in China more than 2000 years ago. Today it is known as a traditional Japanese vegetable Edamame is a Japanese word which translates to English as “branched bean”. In Chinese, this vegetable is called mao dou and its English translation is “hairy bean”. In the U.S., this crop is most commonly referred to as edamame but is sometimes called vegetable soybean or sweet bean. Botanically, edamame is the same species as grain or field soybean. However, edamame has traditionally been selected for its large seed size, sweet flavor, and high levels of digestibility over field soybean. Like other legumes, edamame can fix nitrogen (N) to meet its N fertility needs. In addition, there can be residual nitrogen left in residues after harvest. Thus, edamame can offset nitrogen fertility needs of the following crop, thereby improving the economy of cropping systems. The purpose of this publication is to describe how to grow, market, and use edamame.
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- Title
- Edamame
- Creators
- Carol A. Miles (Author)Catherine H. Daniels (Author)Leslie Zenz (Author)Jacqueline King (Author)
- Academic Unit
- Publications, WSU Extension
- Series
- PNW (Series); 525
- Publisher
- Washington State University Extension; Pullman, Washington
- Identifiers
- 99900501638401842
- Copyright
- Copyright Not Evaluated ; openAccess ; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/ ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Report