Soybean Cultivar S130054 Breeding Acceleration

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Solution Overview

Problem

The development of new soybean cultivars is a time-consuming process that requires precise planning and resource management, aiming to combine desirable traits such as high seed yield, disease resistance, drought tolerance, and improved fatty acid profiles, while existing methods are inefficient in achieving these goals within a reasonable timeframe.

Innovation Solution

The introduction of soybean cultivar S130054, which is developed through a process involving crossing, mutagenesis, and transformation to incorporate traits like resistance to glufosinate herbicides, disease resistance, and improved fatty acid profiles, along with methods for producing regenerable cells for tissue culture to ensure uniformity and stability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional soybean breeding methods are used to combine desirable traits, then the cultivar achieves improved traits such as disease resistance and high yield, but the development process takes 6-12 years which is excessively time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisease resistanceVSAvoidbreeding cycle duration
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-selecting parental lines with desired traits (disease resistance, high yield, drought tolerance) and pre-establishing breeding programs with defined objectives. The parental germplasm is carefully chosen before crossing to ensure the offspring will possess the desired characteristics, thereby reducing the time needed for multiple generations of selection and testing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The breeding process is segmented into distinct phases: parental selection, crossing, progeny evaluation, and cultivar development. Each phase has specific objectives and criteria, allowing parallel processing of multiple crosses and selections, which accelerates the overall breeding cycle while maintaining reliability of trait inheritance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Reliability

If traditional breeding methods are used to develop new cultivars, then the process achieves combination of desirable traits, but the process is inefficient and requires extensive resource management with minimum changes in direction

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait combination stabilityVSAvoidbreeding efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes key parameters of the breeding process by implementing standardized evaluation criteria for progeny selection, defined maturity groups, and specific agronomic thresholds. These parameter changes enable more rapid decision-making and reduce the number of generations needed to achieve stable trait combinations, thereby improving productivity without sacrificing reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The breeding program incorporates feedback mechanisms where progeny performance is evaluated against predefined objectives, and selection decisions are made based on this feedback. This systematic feedback loop ensures that only plants meeting the desired trait thresholds are advanced, maintaining trait combination stability while accelerating the breeding process through data-driven decisions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Productivity

If soybean cultivars are developed to maximize grain production, then the yield is improved, but the complexity of selecting and developing plants with superior traits increases

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

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies universality by developing cultivars that simultaneously achieve multiple objectives: high grain yield, disease resistance, drought tolerance, and appropriate maturity for different regions. The breeding program uses universal selection criteria that evaluate all these traits together, allowing a single cultivar development process to produce multi-functional varieties that address multiple productivity concerns at once.

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

Data Source

PatentUS9313982B2Soybean cultivar S130054
Publication Date: 2016.04.19 M S TECH LLC

AI summary

A soybean cultivar designated S130054 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S130054, to the plants of soybean cultivar S130054, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S130054, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S130054. 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 S130054. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S130054, 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 S130054 with another soybean cultivar.