Glycinin Composition of Several Perennial Species Related to Soybean

Abstract
The 7S and 11S seed storage proteins from four perennials related to soybean (Glycine canescens, G. tomentella, G. tabacina, and G. clandestina) were analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-gel electrophoresis. Each species yielded a unique electrophoretic pattern that varied in the total number of bands and their relative mobilities. In every case, the electrophoretic patterns were substantially different from CX635-1-1-1, the strain of G. max used in this study for comparison. Size heterogeneities among both the 7S and 11S polypeptides of the perennials were evident.