Classical breeding and genetics of soybean / Andrew M. Scaboo [and others] -- Identification of genes underlying simple traits in soybean / David Lightfoot -- Molecular genetic linkage maps of soybean / Sachiko Isobe and Satoshi Tabata -- Molecular mapping of quantitative trait loci / Dechun Wang and David Grant -- Molecular breeding / David R. Walker, Maria J. Monteros and Jennifer L. Yates -- Map-based cloning of genes and QTLs in soybean / Madan K. Bhattacharyya -- Candidate gene analysis of mutant soybean germplasm / R.E. Dewey and P. Zhang -- Functional genomics -- transcriptomics in soybean / Sangeeta Dhaubhadel [and others] -- The draft soybean genome sequence / Jeremy Schmutz [and others] -- Soybean comparative genomics / Jianxin Ma [and others] -- Role of bioinformatics as a tool / Julie M. Livingstone, Kei Chin C. Cheng and Martina V. Strömvik -- Soybean proteomics / Savithiry S. Natarajan [and others] -- Metabolomics approach in soybean / Takuji Nakamura [and others] -- Soybean future prospects / Ed Ready.