Soybean Variety 5PZGK37 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 tolerance to environmental stresses, 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 5PZGK37, which combines improved traits like resistance to aerial web blight, aphids, and drought tolerance, along with methods for crossing, introgressing transgenic or mutant traits, and characterizing the variety to enhance breeding efficiency and stability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional soybean breeding methods are used to combine desirable traits, then the variety achieves high yield and disease resistance, but the development process takes six to twelve years and requires extensive resources

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveyield stability and disease resistanceVSAvoiddevelopment time
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 (disease resistance, yield potential, stress tolerance) before crossing. This advance preparation of germplasm with known characteristics accelerates the breeding process while ensuring the combined traits in the final variety, reducing the overall development time from six to twelve years

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If multiple crossing and selection steps are performed to achieve stable high-yielding varieties, then the variety shows maximal yield over different conditions, but the process becomes complex and resource-intensive

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

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program is segmented into distinct phases: parent line selection, controlled crossing, F1 generation evaluation, and selective backcrossing. Each phase has specific objectives and selection criteria, allowing systematic progression toward high-yielding varieties while managing complexity through structured, stepwise development

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs parameter changes by modifying key breeding parameters such as selection intensity, crossing designs, and evaluation metrics across different generations. This allows optimization of the breeding process to achieve high productivity while controlling complexity through data-driven parameter adjustment

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If traditional breeding methods are used, then the variety achieves agronomic soundness, but resource utilization efficiency is low

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveagronomic soundnessVSAvoidresource utilization efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms through systematic evaluation of breeding lines at multiple stages using standardized agronomic criteria. Performance data from field trials inform subsequent selection and crossing decisions, ensuring resources are directed toward lines showing promise for agronomic soundness while avoiding waste on non-performing lines

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS10258012B1Soybean variety 5PZGK37
Publication Date: 2019.04.16 PIONEER HI BREED INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

A novel soybean variety, designated 5PZGK37 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PZGK37, cells from soybean variety 5PZGK37, plants of soybean 5PZGK37, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PZGK37. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PZGK37 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PZGK37, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PZGK37, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PZGK37. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PZGK37 are further provided.