Soybean Variety Trait Integration Using Site-Specific Recombination

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Solution Overview

Problem

The development of new soybean cultivars is unpredictable and requires intensive research due to vast genetic diversity and the need for specific traits like disease resistance, herbicide tolerance, and environmental adaptability, which traditional breeding methods struggle to efficiently integrate.

Innovation Solution

The introduction of transgenic genes and site-specific recombination systems into soybean cultivars CL2046892, CL2046890, and/or CL2046953 to confer traits such as herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and altered oil profiles, combined with breeding techniques like marker-assisted selection and backcrossing to ensure desired genetic traits are integrated into the cultivars.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional breeding methods are used to develop new soybean cultivars, then genetic diversity is maintained, but the integration of specific traits like disease resistance, herbicide tolerance, and environmental adaptability is inefficient and unpredictable

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenvironmental adaptabilityVSAvoidbreeding efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces traditional mechanical breeding methods (manual crossing, selection, and propagation) with biotechnological methods including transgenic gene introduction, site-specific recombination systems, and marker-assisted selection. This substitution enables precise integration of multiple traits simultaneously, dramatically improving breeding efficiency while maintaining genetic diversity and environmental adaptability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Manufacturing precision

If transgenic genes and site-specific recombination systems are introduced to precisely integrate multiple traits, then breeding precision is improved, but the complexity of the breeding process increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait integration precisionVSAvoidbreeding process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs site-specific recombination systems as intermediary mechanisms that facilitate precise gene integration at predetermined genomic locations. These recombination systems act as mediators between introduced transgenic genes and the soybean genome, enabling controlled integration while providing systematic methods to manage the complexity of multi-trait breeding processes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements preliminary characterization of genomic target sites and pre-screening of transgenic constructs before integration. Marker-assisted selection markers are developed and validated in advance to guide the breeding process, allowing researchers to predict and select for desired trait combinations before they are fully expressed, thereby reducing overall process complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20250338810A1Soybean variety CL2046953
Publication Date: 2025.11.06 SYNGENTA CROP PROTECITON AG

AI summary

The present invention is directed in part to soybean variety CL2046892, CL2046890, and/or CL2046953 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to soybean variety CL2046892, CL2046890, and/or CL2046953 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CL2046892, CL2046890, and/or CL2046953, e.g., in a breeding program.