Soybean Variety 01058863 Breeding via Marker-Assisted Selection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current soybean breeding methods face challenges in developing stable, high-yielding varieties with desirable traits such as disease resistance, drought tolerance, and improved nutritional quality, as they rely on conventional breeding techniques that are time-consuming and unpredictable, leading to significant research costs and variability in genetic outcomes.

Innovation Solution

The development of the soybean variety 01058863, which incorporates specific genetic loci conferring traits like herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and improved nutritional quality through genetic transformation and backcrossing, allowing for the creation of stable and uniform soybean plants with desired characteristics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional breeding techniques are used to develop soybean varieties, then genetic diversity can be maintained, but the breeding process becomes time-consuming and unpredictable with significant variability in genetic outcomes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepredictability of genetic outcomesVSAvoidbreeding process duration
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-selecting parental lines with desired traits (herbicide resistance, disease resistance, nutritional quality) and using molecular marker-assisted selection to predict offspring characteristics before full breeding cycles are completed. This allows breeders to identify promising candidates earlier, reducing both time and unpredictability in the breeding process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If conventional breeding techniques are used to develop soybean varieties, then natural genetic variation is preserved, but research costs increase due to the extended breeding timeline

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestability of variety traitsVSAvoidresearch costs
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces traditional mechanical/phenotypic selection methods with molecular marker-assisted selection and genetic transformation techniques. By using DNA markers to track desired traits and molecular methods to introduce specific genes (such as herbicide resistance genes), the breeding process achieves greater trait stability more efficiently, reducing the extended timelines and associated costs of conventional breeding.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Productivity

If genetic transformation and backcrossing are used to introduce specific traits, then breeding efficiency and trait precision improve, but the complexity of the breeding program increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebreeding efficiencyVSAvoidbreeding program complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies segmentation by dividing the breeding program into distinct modular components: (1) genetic transformation to introduce specific resistance genes, (2) backcrossing to recover elite parental traits, and (3) molecular marker-assisted selection to track desired characteristics. This modular approach increases breeding efficiency and precision while making the overall complex process more manageable through systematic organization of discrete breeding steps.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20170347576A1Soybean variety 01058863
Publication Date: 2017.12.07 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01058863. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01058863. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01058863 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01058863 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.