Soybean Variety 5PUDE31 Trait Integration

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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 tolerance to environmental stresses, while existing methods are inefficient and take around six to twelve years from the first cross to delivering finished seed to farmers.

Innovation Solution

The introduction of the novel soybean variety 5PUDE31, which combines improved traits like disease resistance, drought tolerance, and high yield, along with methods for crossing, introgressing transgenic or mutant traits, and characterizing the variety to produce stable and agronomically sound soybean plants.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional soybean breeding methods are used to combine desirable traits, then the resulting varieties have improved yield and resistance, but the development process takes six to twelve years

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevariety stability and agronomic soundnessVSAvoidbreeding development time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-characterizing variety 5PUDE31 with multiple desirable traits (disease resistance, abiotic stress tolerance, yield components) before using it as a parent in breeding programs. This allows breeders to start with a pre-optimized genetic base, eliminating the need to develop these traits from scratch in traditional breeding, thus reducing the 6-12 year development timeline while maintaining variety stability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If multiple breeding crosses are performed to achieve high yield and resistance traits, then the variety performance improves, but the complexity of the breeding program increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveseed yieldVSAvoidbreeding program complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple desirable traits (disease resistance, abiotic stress tolerance, yield components) into a single integrated variety 5PUDE31. By combining these traits in one parent variety, breeders perform fewer crossing operations compared to traditional methods where each trait would need to be developed and combined separately, thus reducing breeding program complexity while maintaining high productivity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Adaptability or versatility

If resource allocation is spread across multiple breeding projects, then diverse traits can be explored, but resource efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait diversityVSAvoidresource efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates variety 5PUDE31 with multi-functional traits including disease resistance, abiotic stress tolerance, and high yield potential. This single variety serves multiple breeding objectives simultaneously, allowing resources to be concentrated on one versatile parent rather than spreading them across multiple specialized breeding projects, thus improving resource efficiency while maintaining trait diversity

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

Data Source

PatentUS10440923B1Soybean variety 5PUDE31
Publication Date: 2019.10.15 PIONEER HI BREED INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

A novel soybean variety, designated 5PUDE31 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PUDE31, cells from soybean variety 5PUDE31, plants of soybean 5PUDE31, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PUDE31. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PUDE31 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PUDE31, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PUDE31, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PUDE31. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PUDE31 are further provided.