In 1983, 1984, and 1985, the senior author collected wild perennial Glycine species in the South Pacific (New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Tonga) and in Australia (Queensland including Great Barrier Reef islands, Western Australia, Northern Territory). The collecting trips were sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and the International Board of Plant Genetic Resources. The latter collecting trips were conducted jointly with scientists from CSIRO/ Canberra.