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With the development of hundreds of commercial soybean varieties, a need for additional variety - specific identifying characteristics has been arisen. For this purpose, twenty - one soybean (Glycine max L.) varieties were elecrophoretically evaluated using polyacrylamide gel and starch gel electrophoresis. Soybean seeds werc analyzed for the banding pattern of seed storage proteins and two enzymatic systems (Esterase and Glutamate Oxalate Transaminase). In this study zymograms were monomorphic but banding
patterns of seed storage proteins, classified cultivars into 4 distinct groups. Therefore, seed storage protein electrophoresis is a more powerful tool to characterize soybean cultivars, compared to isozyme patterns.