Soybean Cultivar Trait Integration for Yield and 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 altered fatty acid profiles, which are time-consuming to develop and require precise planning and resource efficiency.

Innovation Solution

Development of a new soybean cultivar 20372402 with integrated traits like disease resistance, herbicide tolerance, and modified fatty acid composition, achieved through genetic modification and traditional breeding techniques, including backcrossing and transgenic methods.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional breeding techniques are used to combine multiple desirable traits, then the cultivar achieves improved yield and stability, but the development process becomes time-consuming and resource-intensive

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecultivar stabilityVSAvoidbreeding development time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary genetic modifications and trait integrations during the breeding process, preparing the cultivar with desired characteristics (disease resistance, herbicide tolerance, fatty acid composition) before final selection and testing, thereby reducing the overall development time while maintaining stability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If multiple traits are combined in a single cultivar, then the agricultural value and productivity are improved, but the complexity of the breeding program increases

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

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple desirable traits (disease resistance, herbicide tolerance, altered fatty acid profiles) into a single soybean cultivar through systematic breeding and genetic modification, achieving high productivity while managing program complexity through integrated development approaches

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Productivity

If genetic modification and transgenic methods are employed, then desirable traits are achieved more efficiently, but the complexity of the modification process increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait integration efficiencyVSAvoidgenetic modification complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses genetic modification and transgenic methods as intermediary tools to efficiently introduce and integrate desirable traits (disease resistance, herbicide tolerance, fatty acid composition) into the soybean cultivar, achieving rapid trait integration while managing modification complexity through structured genetic engineering approaches

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS12599093B2Soybean cultivar 20372402
Publication Date: 2026.04.14 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

A soybean cultivar designated 20372402 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 20372402, to the plants of soybean cultivar 20372402, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 20372402, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 20372402. 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 20372402. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 20372402, 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 20372402 with another soybean cultivar.