Soybean Cultivar 3616776 Breeding for Yield-Stable Disease Resistance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing soybean cultivars lack stable, high-yielding varieties with improved traits such as disease resistance, drought tolerance, and better agronomic quality, necessitating a continuous effort to develop superior cultivars that maximize grain production and supply food for animals and humans.

Innovation Solution

Development of soybean cultivar 3616776, which includes methods for crossing, mutagenesis, and genetic transformation to introduce traits like herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and enhanced nutritional quality, along with regenerable tissue cultures and genome editing using techniques like CRISPR-Cas9, resulting in plants with desired characteristics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional soybean breeding methods are used, then existing cultivars can be maintained, but they lack stable high-yielding varieties with improved traits such as disease resistance and drought tolerance

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisease resistanceVSAvoidgrain yield
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by introducing specific genetic traits through modern breeding techniques including CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, mutagenesis, and genetic transformation. These methods enable precise modification of plant characteristics such as disease resistance genes, drought tolerance parameters, and yield-related traits, transforming traditional cultivars into superior varieties with enhanced reliability and productivity simultaneously

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces traditional mechanical breeding methods (manual crossing, selection) with advanced biotechnological systems including CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, TALEN, and Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. These molecular-level interventions allow precise introduction of desirable traits without the limitations of conventional breeding, achieving both disease resistance and high yield more efficiently

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

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple breeding techniques are combined to introduce multiple traits, then superior cultivars can be developed, but the development process becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveagronomic qualityVSAvoidbreeding process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs multiple breeding techniques including CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, TALEN, zinc finger nucleases, mutagenesis, and genetic transformation as universal tools that can introduce various traits (disease resistance, drought tolerance, enhanced yield, improved agronomic quality) through a unified methodological framework. This multi-functional approach allows simultaneous development of multiple desirable traits while managing process complexity through systematic integration of techniques

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20250366432A1Soybean Cultivar 3616776
Publication Date: 2025.12.04 CONFLUENCE GENETICS LLC

AI summary

A soybean cultivar designated 3616776 is disclosed. Embodiments include the seeds of soybean 3616776, the plants of soybean 3616776, to plant parts of soybean 3616776, and methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean 3616776 with itself or with another soybean variety. Embodiments include methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to soybean cultivars, breeding cultivars, plant parts, and cells derived from soybean 3616776, methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean 3616776, and the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. Embodiments further include hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing 3616776 with another soybean cultivar.