Soybean Variety 01077330 Breeding via CRISPR and Backcrossing

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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, drought tolerance, and herbicide resistance, which are difficult to predict and require extensive research efforts due to the complexity of genetic combinations and environmental factors.

Innovation Solution

The development of the soybean variety 01077330, which includes specific genetic modifications and locus conversions using techniques like backcrossing and genetic transformation to introduce traits like herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and improved nutritional quality, utilizing methods like CRISPR-Cas systems and Agrobacterium-mediated transformation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional breeding methods are used to develop soybean varieties with improved traits, then genetic diversity and trait combinations can be explored, but the process requires extensive research efforts and time due to the complexity of genetic combinations and environmental factors

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait combination diversityVSAvoidbreeding development time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-selecting and characterizing parental lines with specific desirable traits (herbicide resistance, disease resistance, yield characteristics) before crossing. This preliminary characterization and selection of parents with known genotypes and phenotypes reduces the time required for subsequent breeding cycles and trait validation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs feedback mechanisms through systematic evaluation and selection of progeny based on desired traits. Performance data from field trials and genetic analysis are used to guide subsequent breeding decisions, allowing for targeted improvement of specific traits while reducing unnecessary research efforts on non-promising lines.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Manufacturing precision

If backcrossing and genetic transformation techniques are used to introduce specific traits, then precision in trait introduction is improved, but the device complexity and breeding process complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait introduction precisionVSAvoidbreeding process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies segmentation by breaking down the complex breeding process into distinct stages: parental selection, controlled crossing, backcrossing generations, and trait validation. Each stage focuses on specific objectives (e.g., recovering recurrent parent genome, introducing donor trait), making the overall complex process more manageable and systematic.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses molecular markers as intermediaries to track and verify the presence and absence of specific traits and genomic regions during backcrossing. These markers serve as reliable indicators that simplify the monitoring of genetic composition without requiring complex genomic analysis at each breeding stage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If extensive parental selection and crossing is performed to achieve superior varieties, then the quality and stability of the resulting soybean variety is improved, but the productivity and efficiency of the breeding program decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevariety stabilityVSAvoidbreeding program efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies copying by creating and maintaining detailed records of parental line characteristics, crossing schemes, and progeny performance data. This systematic documentation allows for replication of successful breeding approaches and reduces the need to repeat exploratory work, thereby improving breeding program efficiency while maintaining variety stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS11272679B2Soybean variety 01077330
Publication Date: 2022.03.15 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01077330. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01077330. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01077330 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01077330 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.