Soybean Cultivar 20140922 for Yield and Disease Resistance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing soybean cultivars lack improved traits such as higher seed yield, disease resistance, drought tolerance, and altered fatty acid profiles, which are essential for enhancing agricultural productivity and nutritional value.

Innovation Solution

Development of a new soybean cultivar, designated 20140922, with specific breeding and genetic modification techniques to introduce desirable traits like disease resistance, improved fatty acid composition, and abiotic stress tolerance, combined with methods for regenerating plants and introgressing transgenic traits.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional soybean breeding methods are used, then existing cultivars can be maintained with current traits, but improved traits such as higher seed yield, disease resistance, and drought tolerance cannot be achieved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisease resistanceVSAvoidseed yield
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple desirable traits (disease resistance, drought tolerance, higher seed yield, and altered fatty acid profiles) into a single soybean cultivar through controlled crossing and selective breeding. This merging of traits resolves the contradiction by integrating reliability improvements with productivity enhancements that were previously achieved separately in different cultivars.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent utilizes genetic modification techniques to alter specific parameters of the soybean genome, including fatty acid composition and stress response genes. These parameter changes enable the cultivar to simultaneously achieve improved disease resistance and higher seed yield by modifying biological characteristics at the molecular level.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Productivity

If multiple desirable traits are combined in a single cultivar, then agricultural productivity and nutritional value are enhanced, but the development process becomes more complex and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveseed yieldVSAvoidbreeding process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs preliminary action through pre-planned breeding strategies and genetic modification protocols. Desired traits are introduced and stabilized in parent lines before the main cultivar development, allowing the final cultivar to inherit multiple traits without requiring complex multi-generational selection for each trait individually.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses intermediary techniques such as transgenic plants and controlled hybridization as mediators to transfer multiple desirable traits into the target cultivar. These intermediaries facilitate the combination of traits that would otherwise require complex direct breeding operations, reducing the overall process complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If conventional soybean varieties are used, then current agricultural systems can be maintained, but nutritional value and resistance to environmental stresses are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveabiotic stress toleranceVSAvoidenvironmental stress impact
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent converts harmful environmental factors (drought, heat, disease pressure) into selective pressures that favor the expression of beneficial traits. By breeding and modifying soybean lines under controlled stress conditions, the cultivar develops enhanced abiotic stress tolerance and disease resistance, transforming the challenge of environmental stress into an opportunity for trait selection and improvement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

Data Source

PatentUS20250287898A1Soybean cultivar 20140922
Publication Date: 2025.09.18 MERTEC LLC

AI summary

A soybean cultivar designated 20140922 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 20140922, to the plants of soybean cultivar 20140922, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 20140922, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 20140922. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 20140922. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 20140922, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 20140922 with another soybean cultivar.