Soybean Variety 5PYSQ04 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 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 5PYSQ04, which includes methods for crossing, introgressing transgenic, mutant, or native traits, and characterizing the variety to produce stable, high-yielding soybeans with improved agronomic characteristics, disease resistance, and environmental tolerance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional soybean breeding methods are used to combine desirable traits, then the variety achieves stability and high yield across different conditions, but the development process takes six to twelve years and requires significant resources

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevariety stabilityVSAvoiddevelopment time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-establishing a diverse germplasm collection with known desirable traits before beginning the breeding process. This allows breeders to select from pre-characterized materials rather than creating variations during breeding, significantly reducing the time required to develop stable, high-yielding varieties while maintaining reliability through systematic trait combination

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If traditional breeding methods are used to combine multiple desirable traits, then the final variety achieves high yield and disease resistance, but the process requires precise planning and efficient resource use with minimum changes in direction

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveyieldVSAvoidbreeding process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies segmentation by dividing the complex breeding process into distinct phases: germplasm selection, trait identification, controlled crossing, and evaluation. This systematic segmentation allows for precise planning at each stage, reducing overall process complexity while maintaining high productivity through focused efforts on specific traits in each phase

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies universality by developing a standardized breeding framework that can be applied across different soybean varieties and trait combinations. The germplasm collection and selection criteria serve multiple breeding objectives simultaneously, reducing the need for separate breeding programs for different traits and minimizing directional changes in the overall process

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

Data Source

PatentUS11252907B1Soybean variety 5PYSQ04
Publication Date: 2022.02.22 AGRIGENETICS INC

AI summary

A novel soybean variety, designated 5PYSQ04 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PYSQ04, cells from soybean variety 5PYSQ04, plants of soybean 5PYSQ04, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PYSQ04. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PYSQ04 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PYSQ04, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PYSQ04, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PYSQ04. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PYSQ04 are further provided.