Soybean Variety A1025934 Breeding Segmentation

Resolve Bottlenecks,
Find Innovative Solutions
Generate Solutions

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 A1025934, which involves crossing specific parental lines and using techniques like backcrossing and genetic transformation to introduce desired traits like herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and improved nutritional quality, while maintaining the variety's morphological and physiological characteristics through tissue culture and regeneration methods.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If conventional breeding methods are used to develop soybean varieties, then genetic diversity can be maintained, but the process is time-consuming and inefficient in combining multiple desirable traits

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

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding process is segmented into distinct phases: initial cross between parental lines to combine disease resistance and yield traits, followed by backcrossing to introduce herbicide resistance, and final selection to stabilize the variety. This segmentation allows systematic combination of multiple traits without overwhelming complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Parental lines are pre-selected and pre-characterized for specific traits (disease resistance, yield potential, nutritional quality) before crossing. This preliminary characterization of parents A and B enables predictable trait combination and reduces trial-and-error in the breeding process

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple traits are combined in a single variety, then agronomic performance is improved, but the complexity of breeding program increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait combinationVSAvoidbreeding program complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple desirable traits (disease resistance from parent A, yield potential from parent B, herbicide resistance introduced via backcrossing) are merged into a single integrated variety A1025934. The breeding program systematically combines these traits through controlled crossing and selection rather than attempting to manage them separately

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

Different parental lines contribute specific local qualities: parent A provides disease resistance characteristics, parent B provides yield and nutritional quality traits. The backcrossing process introduces herbicide resistance as a specific localized trait. This approach allows each parent to contribute its strength without requiring the entire breeding program to manage all traits simultaneously

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Reliability

If backcrossing is used to introduce herbicide resistance, then the desired trait is successfully incorporated, but the morphological and physiological characteristics must be carefully maintained

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait stabilityVSAvoidcharacteristic consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

Throughout the backcrossing process, continuous monitoring and selection ensure that herbicide resistance is incorporated while maintaining the desirable morphological and physiological characteristics of the original variety. Each backcross generation is evaluated for both the introduced trait and the preservation of parent B's characteristics, providing feedback that guides further breeding decisions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS8581054B2Soybean variety A1025934
Publication Date: 2013.11.12 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1025934. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1025934. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1025934 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1025934 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.