COWBOY Pinto Bean Seed Stability and Uniformity
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need for healthier food products that utilize the nutritional benefits of legumes, such as beans, which are underutilized in the US diet, and require a consistent crop supply to address obesity and poor eating habits.
Innovation Solution
A pinto bean variety, designated as COWBOY, is developed for breeding new bean varieties, characterized by larger, more desirable seed size, improved seed stability, and uniformity, along with methods for cultivating and using the seeds as foodstuff or in breeding programs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If legumes are underutilized in the US diet, then the population consumes high sugar and high fat foods, but there is a need for healthier food products that provide the beneficial nutritional effects of legumes
Solution Approach 1:
The bean variety COWBOY is designed to be self-sufficient in terms of seed stability and uniformity, requiring minimal intervention to maintain its desirable traits across generations. The plant's inherent genetic stability allows it to consistently produce uniform seeds with desirable characteristics, reducing the need for complex breeding interventions while providing reliable nutritional benefits to address public health concerns.
2Reliability
If a consistent crop supply of legumes is required to address obesity and poor eating habits, then there is a need for reliable breeding programs, but breeding new varieties requires time and resources
Solution Approach 1:
The bean variety COWBOY has undergone preliminary breeding and selection processes to establish its desirable traits of seed stability and uniformity before being released for widespread cultivation. This preliminary action ensures that the variety is already optimized for consistent performance, allowing breeders and farmers to immediately benefit from reliable crop supplies without needing to invest additional time in extensive breeding programs.
Solution Approach 2:
The variety COWBOY serves as a stable genetic copy that can be repeatedly propagated to produce consistent crops. Its high seed stability means that each generation accurately replicates the parent's desirable traits, enabling reliable copying of the successful genotype across multiple seasons and locations, thus ensuring consistent crop supply for addressing public health needs.
3Productivity
If larger and more desirable seed size is achieved in bean varieties, then food productivity improves, but seed stability and uniformity may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The breeding process for variety COWBOY involved specific parameter changes in the genetic makeup to simultaneously achieve larger seed size and improved uniformity. By selecting for specific genetic parameters that control both size and stability, the variety was developed to express these improved traits consistently across generations, resolving the traditional trade-off between size and stability.
Solution Approach 2:
The variety COWBOY represents a composite genetic composition that integrates multiple desirable traits including larger seed size, improved uniformity, and enhanced stability. This composite genotype combines genetic factors that individually contribute to each trait, creating a synergistic effect where the combination of genes produces seeds that are simultaneously larger, more uniform, and more stable across generations than any single trait alone would provide.
Data Source
AI summary
An edible bean seed designated as <11278> or COWBOY, a sample of the edible bean deposited under accession no. PI 678951 is disclosed. Methods of using the edible bean seed designated as <11278> or COWBOY for breeding new varieties of bean seed are also disclosed, as well as seeds of the edible bean seed designated as <11278> or COWBOY.