Soybean Cultivar 20150929: Staged Breeding for Trait Stability

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current 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 (20150929) with specific traits like disease resistance, improved fatty acid composition, and abiotic stress tolerance, achieved through traditional breeding and genetic modification techniques, including introgression of transgenic or mutant traits, and use of regenerable cells for tissue culture.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional breeding methods are used to combine desirable traits, then the cultivar achieves superior agronomic qualities, but the development process becomes time-consuming and resource-intensive

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveagronomic quality stabilityVSAvoidbreeding development time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program is divided into distinct phases: initial cross between parent lines, F1 generation evaluation, backcrossing stages, and final cultivar development. This segmentation allows systematic progression through complex breeding objectives while managing time and resources efficiently at each stage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Parental lines are pre-selected and pre-characterized for specific desirable traits before crossing. This preliminary characterization of parents for disease resistance, yield potential, and fatty acid profiles enables more efficient combination of traits in subsequent generations without repeating extensive screening.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

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

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait combination capabilityVSAvoidbreeding program complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Different parental lines are selected to contribute specific local traits: one parent contributes disease resistance and drought tolerance, while the other contributes high yield potential and favorable fatty acid composition. This localized trait assignment simplifies the breeding program by focusing on combining specific trait packages rather than searching for a single multi-trait parent.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The breeding program uses nested backcrossing where the F1 hybrid is crossed back to one parent, then the resulting progeny are crossed back again, progressively nesting the desired traits from both parents into a unified genetic background. This nested approach systematically integrates multiple traits while managing genetic complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

3Reliability

If extensive screening and evaluation are conducted to ensure trait stability, then the cultivar reliability improves, but the resource consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait stabilityVSAvoidresource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

Screening and evaluation are performed at selective stages rather than continuously throughout breeding. Intensive phenotypic screening occurs at F1 and key backcross generations to verify trait inheritance, while routine monitoring is sufficient in later stabilization phases. This partial action approach ensures reliability without excessive resource consumption at every stage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS12457984B2Soybean cultivar 20150929
Publication Date: 2025.11.04 MERTEC LLC

AI summary

A soybean cultivar designated 20150929 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 20150929, to the plants of soybean cultivar 20150929, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 20150929, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 20150929. 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 20150929. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 20150929, 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 20150929 with another soybean cultivar.