Soybean Variety RJS49002 Trait Integration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current soybean breeding processes are time-consuming and resource-intensive, aiming to develop stable, high-yielding varieties with desirable traits like disease resistance, drought tolerance, and improved fatty acid profiles, but few commercial varieties are successfully selected from the large number of potential new varieties generated.

Innovation Solution

Development of the soybean variety RJS49002, which combines traits such as glyphosate resistance, multi-race Phytophthora resistance, and good sudden death syndrome field tolerance, achieved through careful breeding and selection, allowing for efficient production and distribution.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional soybean breeding processes are used to develop new varieties with desirable traits, then the varieties achieve improved disease resistance, drought tolerance, and fatty acid profiles, but the breeding process becomes time-consuming and resource-intensive

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

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-selecting parental lines with known desirable traits (glyphosate resistance, Phytophthora resistance, high yield potential) before crossing. This advance preparation of parental germplasm with characterized traits reduces the time required for subsequent breeding cycles while ensuring the desired reliability of disease resistance and other agronomic qualities in the resulting variety RJS49002

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If extensive breeding programs generate over 500,000 potential new varieties each year, then diverse trait combinations are created, but fewer than 25 varieties are successfully selected for commercial use

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait combination diversityVSAvoidcommercial variety selection rate
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by focusing breeding efforts on specific, locally important traits relevant to particular growing regions. Variety RJS49002 is developed with targeted combinations of glyphosate resistance, Phytophthora resistance, and high yield potential that are specifically adapted to regional conditions, thereby improving the likelihood of commercial selection from the large pool of potential varieties

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Productivity

If multiple desirable traits are combined in a single soybean variety, then the variety achieves superior agronomic performance and yield, but the breeding complexity and resource requirements increase

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

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies merging by combining multiple desirable traits (glyphosate resistance, multi-race Phytophthora resistance, high yield potential, improved fatty acid profile) into a single integrated variety RJS49002. This consolidation of traits from different parental lines into one unified variety achieves superior agronomic performance while streamlining the breeding program through systematic trait integration rather than developing separate varieties for each trait

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS7973221B1Soybean variety RJS49002
Publication Date: 2011.07.05 PIONEER HI BREED INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated RJS49002. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety RJS49002, to the plants of soybean RJS49002 to plant parts of soybean variety RJS49002 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety RJS49002 with another soybean plant, using RJS49002 as either the male or the female parent.