Soybean Variety A1024188 Breeding Efficiency

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current soybean breeding methods face challenges in developing stable, high-yielding soybean varieties that combine desirable traits such as disease resistance, drought tolerance, and improved nutritional quality, while existing technologies struggle to predict and replicate superior genetic combinations efficiently.

Innovation Solution

The development of the soybean variety A1024188, which involves crossing and backcrossing techniques to introduce specific traits like herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and improved nutritional quality, using genetic transformation and marker-assisted selection, and tissue culture methods to regenerate plants expressing these traits.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If traditional soybean breeding methods are used, then existing varieties can be maintained, but the development of stable, high-yielding varieties with multiple desirable traits is slow and inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebreeding efficiencyVSAvoidtime to develop new varieties
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-establishing a diverse germplasm collection with known genetic markers for desirable traits before the actual breeding process. This allows breeders to identify and select parent lines with specific traits (disease resistance, drought tolerance, high yield) in advance, accelerating the overall breeding cycle and reducing the time needed to develop new varieties.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces traditional mechanical breeding methods with molecular marker-assisted selection. Instead of relying solely on phenotypic observation and manual selection, the invention uses DNA markers to identify and select plants with desirable genetic traits, significantly improving breeding efficiency and reducing the time required to develop new varieties.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Reliability

If multiple desirable traits are combined in a single variety, then agronomic performance improves, but the complexity of achieving and maintaining these combinations increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveagronomic performanceVSAvoidbreeding program complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies segmentation by dividing the complex breeding program into manageable modules, each focused on incorporating specific desirable traits through controlled crosses. Each trait (disease resistance, drought tolerance, yield) is addressed separately in different breeding cycles, making the overall complex goal of combining multiple traits more manageable and systematic.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses molecular markers as intermediaries to track and select for desirable traits during the breeding process. These markers act as mediators between the breeder and the complex genetic architecture, simplifying the identification and combination of multiple traits by providing visible, measurable indicators of genetic presence without requiring complex genetic analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Manufacturing precision

If genetic transformation techniques are used to introduce specific traits, then trait introduction precision improves, but the complexity of genetic modification processes increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait introduction precisionVSAvoidgenetic transformation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the complex genetic transformation process into a separate, controlled step that can be performed on specific parent lines before crossing. By isolating the transformation step from the breeding process, the invention maintains precision in trait introduction while simplifying the overall workflow, as the transformed lines can then be bred using conventional methods.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS8604288B2Soybean variety A1024188
Publication Date: 2013.12.10 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1024188. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1024188. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1024188 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1024188 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.