Soybean A1024198 Breeding via Preliminary Action

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current soybean breeding methods face challenges in developing stable, high-yielding varieties with desirable traits such as disease resistance, drought tolerance, and improved nutritional quality, as they rely on conventional breeding procedures that are time-consuming and unpredictable, leading to the need for innovative approaches to introduce specific genetic traits effectively.

Innovation Solution

The development of the soybean variety A1024198, which includes methods for crossing and breeding techniques like backcrossing and genetic transformation to introduce desired traits like herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and improved nutritional quality, utilizing transgenic genes and marker-assisted selection to create plants with specific loci conversions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional breeding procedures are used to develop soybean varieties with desirable traits, then disease resistance and drought tolerance can be achieved, but the breeding process becomes time-consuming and unpredictable

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisease resistanceVSAvoidbreeding process time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-introducing desired genetic traits through genetic transformation before conventional breeding steps. Transgenic plants are created with specific disease resistance genes and nutritional quality traits already integrated, eliminating the need for time-consuming conventional selection and crossing to achieve these traits. This allows breeders to start with plants that already possess the desired characteristics, significantly reducing the overall breeding timeline while maintaining reliability of trait expression.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If conventional breeding procedures are used to develop soybean varieties with desirable traits, then improved nutritional quality can be achieved, but the results become unpredictable

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenutritional qualityVSAvoidbreeding process time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-introducing desired genetic traits through genetic transformation before conventional breeding steps. Transgenic plants are created with specific disease resistance genes and nutritional quality traits already integrated, eliminating the need for time-consuming conventional selection and crossing to achieve these traits. This allows breeders to start with plants that already possess the desired characteristics, significantly reducing the overall breeding timeline while maintaining reliability of trait expression.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Manufacturing precision

If genetic transformation and marker-assisted selection are used to introduce specific traits, then breeding precision is improved, but device and process complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait introduction precisionVSAvoidbreeding process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies the intermediary principle by using molecular markers as mediators between the desired traits and the selection process. These markers serve as detectable indicators that allow breeders to identify plants with the desired genetic transformations without needing to directly observe or measure the complex molecular changes. This intermediary system simplifies the selection process while maintaining high precision in identifying plants with the intended genetic modifications, making the complex transformation process more manageable and predictable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS8383895B2Soybean variety A1024198
Publication Date: 2013.02.26 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1024198. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1024198. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1024198 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1024198 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.