Soybean Variety 01094720 Trait Integration for Disease Resistance and Yield
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing soybean varieties often lack a balanced combination of traits such as high seed yield, disease resistance, insect resistance, drought tolerance, and improved nutritional quality, making it challenging to develop stable and high-yielding soybean varieties that meet agronomic and commercial demands.
Innovation Solution
The development of the soybean variety 01094720, which incorporates genetic modifications and single locus conversions for traits like herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and improved nutritional quality, achieved through methods like genetic transformation and backcrossing, while maintaining the variety's morphological and physiological characteristics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional soybean breeding methods are used, then existing varieties are maintained, but they lack a balanced combination of multiple desirable traits such as high seed yield, disease resistance, insect resistance, drought tolerance, and improved nutritional quality
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple desirable traits from different parental lines into a single soybean variety through systematic breeding. The variety 01094720 integrates high seed yield, disease resistance (particularly to Phytophthora), insect resistance, drought tolerance, and improved nutritional quality by merging genetic material from parents with complementary traits, achieving a balanced combination that addresses multiple limitations simultaneously
Solution Approach 2:
The developed soybean variety serves multiple functions and adapts to various environmental conditions while maintaining consistent performance. It provides both high yield and multiple resistance traits, making it universally applicable across different growing conditions and suitable for diverse agricultural purposes, thereby achieving reliability across multiple performance dimensions
2Reliability
If genetic modifications and single locus conversions are implemented to improve specific traits, then resistance to diseases and insects and tolerance to drought and heat are enhanced, but the complexity of the breeding process increases
Solution Approach 1:
The breeding program performs preliminary selection and characterization of parental lines before initiating the crossing program. Parents are pre-screened for specific traits such as disease resistance, yield potential, and adaptability, allowing the breeding process to proceed more efficiently with predetermined goals and reducing overall program complexity despite the sophisticated genetic modifications involved
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs intermediate breeding steps including backcrossing and single locus conversions as mediators to introduce specific resistance and tolerance traits while maintaining the overall genetic background and performance characteristics of the base variety. These intermediary processes allow precise trait incorporation without completely redesigning the entire breeding program
Data Source
AI summary
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01094720. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01094720. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01094720 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01094720 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.