Soybean Variety 5PKNB14 Trait Introgression and Breeding Efficiency

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Solution Overview

Problem

The development of new soybean varieties is a time-consuming process that requires precise planning and efficient resource use, aiming to combine desirable traits such as high yield, disease resistance, and adaptability to various conditions, while existing methods are inefficient and directionally unstable.

Innovation Solution

The introduction of soybean variety 5PKNB14, which is stable, high-yielding, and agronomically sound, along with methods for crossing, introgressing transgenic or mutant traits, and characterizing the variety to produce plants with improved traits for specific environments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional soybean breeding methods are used to combine desirable traits, then the variety can achieve high yield and disease resistance, but the development process takes 6-12 years and requires extensive resources

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveyield stability and disease resistanceVSAvoidbreeding development time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-characterizing variety 5PKNB14 across multiple environments and traits before using it as a parental line. This advance preparation allows breeders to immediately cross 5PKNB14 with other varieties to introduce specific traits without needing to conduct extensive preliminary testing, thereby reducing the overall breeding timeline while maintaining reliability of yield and disease resistance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Variety 5PKNB14 serves as an intermediary parental line that mediates the transfer of desirable traits between different soybean varieties. By using 5PKNB14 as a stable, pre-characterized parent with known agronomic performance, breeders can efficiently introgress specific traits (such as disease resistance or maturity characteristics) from donor varieties while maintaining overall variety stability, thus reducing development time without sacrificing reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If traditional breeding methods are used to develop new varieties, then trait combination is achieved, but the process requires precise planning and efficient resource use with minimal direction changes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait combination stabilityVSAvoidbreeding program complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies copying by extensively characterizing variety 5PKNB14 across multiple environments, years, and traits, creating a comprehensive reference profile that can be copied and applied to breeding programs. This pre-established knowledge base allows breeders to reliably predict outcomes when using 5PKNB14 as a parent, reducing program complexity by eliminating the need to re-characterize basic traits in each new breeding initiative

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies parameter changes by systematically evaluating variety 5PKNB14 across multiple parameters including yield, disease resistance, maturity, and adaptability under different environmental conditions. This multi-parameter characterization creates a robust parental line that can be confidently used to achieve stable trait combinations, reducing breeding program complexity by establishing 5PKNB14 as a pre-validated foundation with known performance across multiple critical parameters

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10986800B1Soybean variety 5PKNB14
Publication Date: 2021.04.27 PIONEER HI BREED INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

A novel soybean variety, designated 5PKNB14 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PKNB14, cells from soybean variety 5PKNB14, plants of soybean 5PKNB14, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PKNB14. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PKNB14 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PKNB14, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PKNB14, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PKNB14. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PKNB14 are further provided.