Soybean Variety 01067783 Breeding via Segmentation and Preliminary Action

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current soybean breeding methods face challenges in developing stable, high-yielding varieties with improved traits such as disease resistance, herbicide tolerance, and nutritional quality, which are difficult to predict and require extensive research and resource allocation due to the complexity of genetic combinations and environmental factors.

Innovation Solution

The development of the soybean variety 01067783, which includes specific genetic modifications and locus conversions for traits like herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and improved nutritional quality, achieved through genetic transformation and backcrossing techniques, allowing for the introduction of desirable traits while maintaining the original variety's morphological and physiological characteristics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional breeding methods are used to develop soybean varieties with improved traits, then genetic diversity and trait combination are achieved, but the process requires extensive research and resource allocation with unpredictable outcomes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepredictability of trait expressionVSAvoidbreeding cycle duration
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-selecting parental lines with known, stable genotypes and predetermined traits before crossing. The parental soybean plants are characterized in advance for specific characteristics including disease resistance, herbicide tolerance, and nutritional quality, allowing breeders to predict offspring traits with greater reliability and reduce the time required for phenotypic screening across multiple generations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple traits are combined in a single soybean variety, then agronomic performance and nutritional quality are improved, but the genetic complexity increases making breeding more difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenumber of improved traitsVSAvoidgenetic combination complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies segmentation by dividing the breeding process into distinct stages: first developing parental lines with specific individual traits (disease resistance, herbicide tolerance, nutritional quality), then systematically crossing these pre-characterized lines to combine traits. This segmented approach to trait accumulation reduces genetic complexity management by handling one trait at a time through controlled crosses rather than attempting to manage multiple traits simultaneously in a single cross.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality by assigning specific trait combinations to specific parental lines based on their strengths. Each parental soybean plant is optimized for particular characteristics (e.g., one parent excels in disease resistance while another excels in nutritional quality), allowing the breeder to combine complementary local qualities in the offspring without the complexity of trying to improve all traits in a single parent.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Manufacturing precision

If extensive phenotypic characterization is performed to ensure variety stability, then trait reliability is improved, but the time and resources required for evaluation increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevariety uniformityVSAvoidbreeding efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies mechanics substitution by replacing extensive mechanical phenotypic evaluation with molecular marker-based genotypic characterization. Instead of manually measuring and evaluating physical traits across multiple generations to ensure variety uniformity, the method uses DNA markers to directly assess the genetic composition of parental lines and progeny, providing precise characterization of traits such as disease resistance genes and nutritional quality markers without time-consuming field trials.

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

Data Source

PatentUS10470425B1Soybean variety 01067783
Publication Date: 2019.11.12 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01067783. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01067783. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01067783 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01067783 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.