Soybean Cultivar Breeding for Yield, Disease Resistance, and Oil Stability

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing soybean cultivars face challenges in combining desirable traits such as higher seed yield, disease resistance, drought tolerance, and improved fatty acid profiles, which are time-consuming to develop and require precise planning and resource efficiency.

Innovation Solution

Development of a new soybean cultivar 27080914 with enhanced traits, including disease resistance, herbicide tolerance, and improved fatty acid composition, achieved through traditional breeding and genetic modification techniques, such as backcrossing and transgenic methods, to introduce specific genetic elements and traits.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional breeding methods are used to combine desirable traits, then disease resistance and yield improvement are achieved, but the development process becomes time-consuming and resource-intensive

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

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-selecting parental lines with specific desirable traits (disease resistance, yield potential, fatty acid profiles) before initiating the breeding program. This advance preparation and selection of germplasm with known characteristics reduces the time required for trait combination and evaluation in subsequent generations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses intermediate breeding populations and backcrossing schemes as mediators to efficiently transfer specific traits from donor parents to the recurrent parent. This intermediary approach allows for controlled introduction of disease resistance and other traits while maintaining the genetic background of the elite parent, accelerating the breeding process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

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

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

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the breeding program into distinct phases: initial cross to combine traits, intermediate backcrossing generations to recover recurrent parent genetics, and final selection stages. This segmentation allows for systematic management of multiple traits (yield, disease resistance, fatty acid profiles) without overwhelming program complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality by focusing on specific traits in specific breeding stages rather than attempting to optimize all traits simultaneously. For example, disease resistance is prioritized in early generations, while yield and fatty acid composition are emphasized in later selection stages, reducing overall program complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Stability of the object's composition

If fatty acid composition is modified for improved oxidative stability, then oil quality is enhanced, but the genetic modification process becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoxidative stabilityVSAvoidgenetic modification complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent modifies fatty acid composition parameters by selecting parental lines with naturally occurring variations in fatty acid profiles and combining them through breeding. This approach changes the chemical composition parameters (increasing saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids, decreasing polyunsaturated fatty acids) through biological selection rather than complex genetic engineering.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent copies naturally occurring fatty acid profile variations from donor parents into the recurrent parent background through controlled crossing and backcrossing. This copying of beneficial genetic variants achieves improved oxidative stability without requiring de novo genetic modification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS12593794B2Soybean cultivar 27080914
Publication Date: 2026.04.07 M S TECH LLC

AI summary

A soybean cultivar designated 27080914 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 27080914, to the plants of soybean cultivar 27080914, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 27080914, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 27080914. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 27080914. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 27080914, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 27080914 with another soybean cultivar.