Soybean Cultivar 24460733: Pre-Screened Breeding for Trait Combination
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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 (24460733) with specific genetic modifications and introgression of transgenic traits, including herbicide tolerance and disease resistance, through methods like mutagenesis and transformation, combined with traditional breeding techniques to enhance desirable characteristics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional breeding techniques are used to develop new soybean cultivars, then genetic diversity is maintained, but the development process takes 6-12 years and requires multiple crossing generations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-characterizing parental lines for specific traits (fatty acid composition, disease resistance, yield) before crossing. This allows breeders to select parents with desired characteristics in advance, reducing the time needed for multiple generations of selection and evaluation in the 6-12 year breeding process.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple crossing generations are performed to combine desirable traits, then trait combination is achieved, but resource consumption increases and direction changes may occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary evaluation of parental lines for multiple desirable traits (yield, disease resistance, fatty acid profile) before initiating crosses. This pre-screening ensures that only parents with complementary desirable traits are selected, reducing the need for additional crossing generations and minimizing resource consumption during the breeding process.
3Productivity
If existing soybean cultivars are used, then current agricultural practices are maintained, but seed yield, disease resistance, and nutritional value remain limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by selecting parental lines with specific localized desirable traits - one parent contributes superior yield characteristics while the other contributes enhanced disease resistance and altered fatty acid composition. The crossing process combines these locally optimized traits into a single cultivar that exhibits improved productivity and reliability simultaneously.
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AI summary
A soybean cultivar designated 24460733 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 24460733, to the plants of soybean cultivar 24460733, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 24460733, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 24460733. 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 24460733. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 24460733, 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 24460733 with another soybean cultivar.