Soybean Variety 5PKPS94 Breeding Stability

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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 environmental tolerance, while existing methods are slow and prone to directional changes.

Innovation Solution

The introduction of soybean variety 5PKPS94, which is stable and homozygous, combined with methods for crossing, introgressing transgenic or mutant traits, and characterizing plants to produce varieties with improved agronomic characteristics, such as resistance to diseases and environmental stresses.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional soybean breeding methods are used to develop new varieties with multiple desirable traits, then the varieties 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 cycle duration
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-selecting and characterizing parent lines with specific desirable traits (high yield, disease resistance, stress tolerance) before initiating the breeding program. This advance preparation of germplasm with known characteristics accelerates the breeding process while ensuring the final variety meets target performance criteria.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms through systematic evaluation and characterization of breeding progeny at multiple stages. Performance data on yield, disease resistance, and other traits are collected and used to guide selection decisions, allowing the breeding program to efficiently identify superior lines and adjust strategies based on observed results.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple crossing and selection steps are performed to combine desirable traits, then the final variety achieves improved agronomic characteristics, but the process becomes complex and prone to directional changes

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

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies segmentation by dividing the breeding program into distinct phases: parent line selection, controlled crossing, progeny evaluation, and variety development. Each phase has specific objectives and selection criteria, allowing complex trait combination to be managed through systematic, stepwise progression rather than simultaneous manipulation of multiple variables.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs universal parent lines and standardized evaluation protocols that can be applied across different breeding programs and trait combinations. This multi-functional approach allows the same methodological framework to be used for combining various desirable traits (yield, disease resistance, stress tolerance) without requiring program-specific modifications.

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

Data Source

PatentUS10051818B1Soybean variety 5PKPS94
Publication Date: 2018.08.21 PIONEER HI BREED INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

A novel soybean variety, designated 5PKPS94 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PKPS94, cells from soybean variety 5PKPS94, plants of soybean 5PKPS94, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PKPS94. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PKPS94 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PKPS94, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PKPS94, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PKPS94. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PKPS94 are further provided.