Canola Variety SCV167385 Breeding via Marker-Assisted Selection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current canola breeding techniques face challenges in developing stable, high-yielding varieties with enhanced oil content and resistance to diseases and environmental stresses, which limits crop value and yield stability.

Innovation Solution

The development of the new canola variety SCV167385, which is stable and uniform, and can be used in crossing and mutagenesis to produce plants with desirable traits such as herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and improved oil content through genetic engineering and traditional breeding methods, including backcrossing and tissue culture.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Stability of the object's composition

If traditional breeding methods are used to develop canola varieties, then genetic stability is improved, but breeding time and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegenetic stabilityVSAvoidbreeding time
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs preliminary action through the use of molecular markers to identify and select desirable traits early in the breeding process. By using marker-assisted selection, breeders can screen for specific genetic characteristics before actual phenotypic expression occurs, significantly reducing the time required for traditional multi-generation breeding while maintaining genetic stability through targeted selection of homozygous lines.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Stability of the object's composition

If conventional breeding techniques are used, then variety uniformity is improved, but yield and oil content enhancement are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevariety uniformityVSAvoidyield and oil content
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by utilizing molecular marker technology to precisely identify and combine multiple genetic parameters that control yield, oil content, and uniformity. Through marker-assisted backcrossing and selection, the invention enables simultaneous optimization of multiple quantitative traits by tracking specific genetic markers associated with high oil content and yield, thereby breaking the limitations of conventional breeding while maintaining variety uniformity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Productivity

If genetic engineering methods are used to introduce desired traits, then breeding efficiency is improved, but disease and environmental stress resistance may be compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebreeding efficiencyVSAvoiddisease and environmental stress resistance
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs segmentation by separating the introduction of desired traits from the maintenance of disease and stress resistance through modular marker-assisted selection. Specific molecular markers identify regions containing desirable traits (such as oil content or yield), while other markers track resistance genes. This segmented approach allows independent selection and combination of trait modules, enabling efficient genetic engineering while preserving reliability through targeted maintenance of resistance loci.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS9788504B2Plants and seeds of canola variety SCV167385
Publication Date: 2017.10.17 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

In an embodiment, the invention relates to the seeds, plants, and plant parts of canola variety SCV167385 and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing canola variety SCV167385 with itself or with another canola variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic canola plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to canola varieties or breeding lines and plant parts derived from canola variety SCV167385, to methods for producing other canola varieties, lines or plant parts derived from canola variety SCV167385 and to the canola plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid canola seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the variety SCV167385 with another canola variety.