Soybean presents high nutritional value. Legume seeds contain approximately 38% protein, 20% lipids (oil), 5% minerals and 34% carbohydrates. Despite the high nutritional value, seeds also contain some factors that can decrease their digestibility by monogastric animals, such as birds, pigs and human knots.

According to the data that were released by GDM, rafinosis and spastiosis are two types of soluble sugars present in soybean, known as antinutritional factors. They are not digested by monogastric animals and when ingested from the ration made with soybean meal they cause gas, intestinal discomfort and decrease feed energy and weight gain.

As a way to solve this problem, the company developed a soybean with lower contents of rafinosis and staquiosis with a gene editing technique, which was classified by CTNBio (National Technical Commission of Biosafety) -- an entity linked to the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communication and responsible for implementing the National Biosafety Policy related to Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) -- as gmo-free. To obtain this soybean, a native soy gene was altered. The new protein version of this gene resulted in a reduction of 75% of rafinosis and 50% of stethaosis in the seeds.

Source: Agrolink