Soybean Variety Breeding for Multi-Resistance and Yield Stability

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing soybean varieties lack improved combinations of traits such as higher seed yield, disease resistance, insect resistance, drought tolerance, and herbicide resistance, which are essential for maximizing grain production and meeting the demands of food and agricultural sustainability.

Innovation Solution

Development of the novel soybean variety 01094692, which incorporates genetic modifications and locus conversions for herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and improved agronomic qualities through a breeding process involving cross-pollination and genetic engineering techniques, including the use of engineered nucleases for precise genome editing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional breeding methods are used, then variety development is straightforward, but improved combinations of traits (yield, disease resistance, insect resistance, drought tolerance, herbicide resistance) cannot be achieved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisease resistanceVSAvoidseed yield
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple desirable traits from different parental lines into a single soybean variety through controlled cross-pollination. The breeding program integrates disease resistance, insect resistance, drought tolerance, and herbicide resistance traits simultaneously, creating a unified variety that expresses all these improved characteristics together rather than separately.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs genetic engineering techniques including engineered nucleases to precisely modify genomic parameters and introduce specific trait improvements. This allows for targeted changes in genetic parameters to achieve enhanced disease resistance, herbicide resistance, and other desirable traits while maintaining overall variety performance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple trait improvements are pursued simultaneously, then agronomic quality improves, but breeding program complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenvironmental adaptabilityVSAvoidbreeding program complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program is divided into distinct phases and components: parental line selection, controlled cross-pollination, progeny evaluation, and trait verification. Each phase focuses on specific objectives, allowing complex multi-trait improvement to be managed through systematic segmentation of the breeding process into manageable steps.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent develops a breeding approach that can simultaneously target multiple trait types (disease resistance, insect resistance, abiotic stress tolerance, herbicide resistance) using a unified methodology. The same cross-pollination and selection framework applies across different trait categories, reducing overall program complexity despite the multiplicity of goals.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12514213B2Soybean variety 01094692
Publication Date: 2026.01.06 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01094692. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01094692. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01094692 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01094692 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.