Soybean Variety 5PPSP96 Breeding Program

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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 inefficient and directionally unstable, taking six to twelve years from the first cross to delivering finished seed to farmers.

Innovation Solution

The introduction of the novel soybean variety 5PPSP96, which includes methods for crossing, introgressing transgenic, mutant, or native traits, and characterizing soybean plants to produce stable, high-yielding varieties with improved agronomic characteristics, disease resistance, and environmental tolerance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional soybean variety development methods are used, then multiple desirable traits can be combined in a single variety, but the development process takes six to twelve years and is time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecombination of desirable traitsVSAvoiddevelopment time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-establishing a structured breeding program with defined objectives, selected germ plasm, and planned crossing schemes before actual variety development begins. This preliminary planning phase organizes resources and trajectories in advance, enabling more efficient trait combination and reducing overall development time from six to twelve years to a more optimized timeline while maintaining the ability to combine multiple desirable traits.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If traditional breeding processes are used, then new varieties can be developed with improved traits, but the process requires extensive resources and is inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimproved traitsVSAvoidresource efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms through systematic evaluation and selection processes at multiple stages of the breeding program. Performance data from field trials, genetic analysis, and trait assessment are continuously fed back into the breeding decisions, allowing for real-time adjustments in crossing strategies, germ plasm selection, and program direction. This feedback loop ensures reliable trait improvement while optimizing resource allocation by eliminating underperforming lines early and concentrating resources on promising candidates.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Ease of manufacture

If traditional variety development is used, then finished seed can be delivered to farmers, but the process requires precise planning with minimum changes in direction

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevariety deliveryVSAvoidplanning complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies segmentation by dividing the complex variety development process into distinct, manageable phases including germ plasm selection, preliminary crossing, F1 generation evaluation, backcrossing stages, and final variety release. Each phase has specific objectives, criteria for progression, and resource allocation plans. This segmented structure simplifies the overall manufacturing process by breaking down the complex twelve-year timeline into discrete, controllable steps with clear decision points, reducing planning complexity while ensuring systematic delivery of finished seed to farmers.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS11206792B2Soybean variety 5PPSP96
Publication Date: 2021.12.28 AGRIGENETICS INC

AI summary

A novel soybean variety, designated 5PPSP96 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PPSP96, cells from soybean variety 5PPSP96, plants of soybean 5PPSP96, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PPSP96. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PPSP96 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PPSP96, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PPSP96, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PPSP96. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PPSP96 are further provided.