August 13, 2007
Today, in our final report from the “A History of the Soybean” series, Todd Gleason, through the courtesy of (retired) University of Illinois Plant Geneticist Ted Hymowitz (hi-moe-witz), travels with two soybean pioneers. Just as the Great Depression was taking hold in the United States, the U-S government sent plant scientists to Japan, Korea, and northeast China on a mission to collect soybeans. Todd Gleason picks up the story of this two-year odyssey.
