Dry Bean Line 08550815 Homozygous Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current dry bean breeding methods have limitations in producing uniform varieties with desirable traits such as high yield, disease resistance, and adaptability, leading to unpredictable performance and a need for new lines with improved characteristics.

Innovation Solution

Development of the dry bean line 08550815, which is substantially homozygous, exhibiting traits like resistance to bean common mosaic virus and rust, and possessing a combination of desirable morphological and physiological characteristics, achieved through pedigree selection and genetic manipulation, including backcrossing and transgenic techniques.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If pedigree selection and recurrent selection breeding methods are used to develop inbred plants from broad-based sources, then genetic diversity and adaptability are improved, but uniformity and predictability of performance deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegenetic diversityVSAvoidperformance predictability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program segments the broad-based breeding population into multiple distinct inbred lines through repeated selfing and selection. Each inbred line represents a segmented genetic pathway that has been optimized for specific desirable traits while maintaining homozygosity, thereby achieving both diversity through multiple lines and uniformity within each line.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Multiple generations of selfing and selection are performed in advance to establish homozygous inbred lines before final crossing. This preliminary action of repeated selfing (e.g., F2 through F6 generations) ensures that the parent lines are genetically stable and uniform, which then produces predictable F1 hybrid performance when crossed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If inbred plants are developed through repeated selfing and selection, then uniformity of true breeding progeny is improved, but breeding time and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveuniformityVSAvoidbreeding cycle duration
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program performs multiple generations of selfing and selection in advance to establish homozygous inbred lines before final crossing. This preliminary action of repeated selfing (e.g., F2 through F6 generations) ensures that the parent lines are genetically stable and uniform, which then produces predictable F1 hybrid performance when crossed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The breeding program monitors and selects for changes in genetic parameters across generations, transitioning from heterozygous F1 hybrids to increasingly homozygous lines (F2, F3, F4, F5, F6). By tracking homozygosity levels and selecting for desired traits at each generation, the program achieves uniformity efficiently while managing breeding time through targeted selection rather than blind selfing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If homozygous inbred plants are crossed to produce F1 hybrids, then uniformity of hybrid population is improved, but genetic variability and adaptability of the hybrid population decrease

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvehybrid uniformityVSAvoidhybrid genetic variability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program segments the broad-based breeding population into multiple distinct inbred lines through repeated selfing and selection. Each inbred line represents a segmented genetic pathway that has been optimized for specific desirable traits while maintaining homozygosity, thereby achieving both diversity through multiple lines and uniformity within each line.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The F1 hybrid population serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides uniformity for commercial cultivation through consistent F1 performance, while also serving as a source of genetic variability for future breeding programs. The F1 hybrids can be used for seed production, performance evaluation, and as parents for developing new inbred lines, making the system multi-functional.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS8008551B2Dry bean line 08550815
Publication Date: 2011.08.30 SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS INC

AI summary

The invention provides seed and plants of the bean line designated 08550815. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of bean line 08550815, and to methods for producing a bean plant produced by crossing a plant of bean line 08550815 with itself or with another bean plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of bean line 08550815, including the pods and gametes of such plants.