SANTA MARIA Pinto Bean Breeding for Crop Reliability
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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, SANTA MARIA, is developed for breeding new bean varieties, characterized by its physiological and morphological traits, and methods for using these seeds in breeding programs to produce hybrid or inbred seeds and plants, ensuring high uniformity and stability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If legumes are promoted as healthy food to address obesity and poor eating habits, then nutritional benefits are improved, but consistent crop supply is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-developing and stabilizing the SANTA MARIA bean variety with desirable traits (uniformity, stability, lodging resistance, machine harvest adaptability) before widespread adoption. This ensures that when the bean is promoted for consumption, a consistent supply of high-quality seeds is already available, resolving the contradiction between nutritional promotion and supply consistency.
2Reliability
If bean variety SANTA MARIA is developed with high uniformity and stability for consistent supply, then crop reliability is improved, but breeding program complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies self-service by developing the SANTA MARIA bean variety with self-maintaining uniformity and stability characteristics. The variety is bred to be essentially free of variants and maintain its traits without requiring complex ongoing intervention, allowing the breeding program to establish the variety once and then propagate it reliably, reducing long-term program complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies parameter changes by selectively breeding for specific parameters (uniformity, stability, lodging resistance, machine harvest adaptability) to transform the bean variety into a consistent, reliable crop. By changing these key parameters through controlled breeding, the variety achieves high reliability without requiring excessively complex breeding programs.
3Ease of operation
If bean variety is bred for machine harvest adaptability and lodging resistance, then ease of operation is improved, but yield and quality consistency may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by breeding the SANTA MARIA bean variety to simultaneously exhibit multiple desirable traits: machine harvest adaptability, lodging resistance, uniformity, and stability. This multi-functional variety achieves ease of operation through machine harvest compatibility while maintaining yield and quality consistency, resolving the contradiction between operational ease and manufacturing precision.
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AI summary
An edible bean seed designated as <13431> or SANTA MARIA, a sample of the edible bean deposited under accession no. is disclosed. Methods of using the edible bean seed designated as <13431> or SANTA MARIA for breeding new varieties of bean seed are also disclosed, as well as seeds of the edible bean seed designated as <13431> or SANTA MARIA.