1. Introduction / James Orf -- 2. Classical breeding and genetics of soybean / Andrew M. Scaboo. [et al.] -- 3. Identification of genes underlying simple traits in soybean / David Lightfoot -- 4. Molecular genetic linkage maps of soybean / Sachiko Isobe and Satoshi Tabata -- 5. Molecular mapping of quantitative trait loci / Dechun Wang and David Grant -- 6. Molecular breeding / David R. Walker, Maria J. Monteros and Jennifer L. Yates -- 7. Map-based cloning of genes and qtls in soybean / Madan K. Bhattacharyya -- 8. Candidate gene analysis of mutant soybean germplasm / R. E. Dewey and P. Zhang -- 9. Functional genomics-transcriptomics in soybean / Sangeeta Dhaubhadel. [et al.] -- 10. The draft soybean genome sequence / Jeremy Schmutz. [et al.] -- 11. Soybean comparative genomics / Jianxin Ma. [et al.] -- 12. Role of bioinformatics as a tool / Julie M. Livingstone, Kei Chin C. Cheng and Martina V. Stromvik -- 13. Soybean proteomics / Savithiry S. Natarajan. [et al.] -- 14. Metabolomics approach in soybean / Takuji Nakamura. [et al.] -- 15. Soybean future prospects / Ed Ready.