Blank Pods: The Impact of Prolonged Heat on Soybean
There have been several reports in late-planted soybean, particularly in Leflore and Humphreys counties, of “flat pods” (See picture below). What has happened in these areas is an incidence of seed abortion or arrested development (Wiebold 2012, https://ipm.missouri.edu/cropPest/2012/11/Arrested-Development-in-the-Soybean-Field-Part2/index.cfm). Arrested development
