Soybean Cultivar 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 self-pollination, making it challenging to produce consistent and desirable genetic traits efficiently.

Innovation Solution

The introduction of transgenic genes and site-specific recombination systems, such as FRT and Cre/Lox, allows for precise integration of desired traits like herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and modified fatty acid metabolism into soybean cultivars, using methods like crossing, selfing, and backcrossing to achieve consistent genetic patterns.

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 development process becomes unpredictable and requires intensive research

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegenetic diversityVSAvoidpredictability of cultivar development
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

Site-specific recombination systems (FRT, Cre/Lox) act as intermediary mechanisms that enable precise control over genetic trait integration. These systems serve as mediators between the breeder's intent and the actual genetic modification, allowing predictable insertion of desired traits while maintaining the natural genetic diversity of soybean cultivars through controlled rather than random breeding processes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Stability of the object's composition

If traditional breeding methods are used, then natural genetic combinations are preserved, but the time required to develop new cultivars increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenatural genetic combinationsVSAvoidcultivar development time
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Site-specific recombination systems enable preliminary action by allowing desired genetic traits to be pre-prepared and precisely inserted at specific genomic locations. This eliminates the need for lengthy traditional breeding cycles involving multiple generations of crossing and selection, as the desired genetic combinations can be directly achieved through controlled recombination events

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The invention changes the fundamental parameter of genetic modification from random/uncontrolled to precise/controlled. By utilizing site-specific recombination systems, the location and outcome of genetic trait integration can be predetermined, fundamentally altering the time parameter required for cultivar development while preserving natural genetic combinations through controlled rather than forced breeding

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Manufacturing precision

If transgenic genes and site-specific recombination systems are introduced, then precise integration of desired traits is achieved, but the complexity of the breeding process increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprecision of trait integrationVSAvoidbreeding process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Site-specific recombination systems (FRT, Cre/Lox) serve as intermediary mechanisms that simplify the overall process despite their molecular complexity. These intermediaries provide a standardized, modular approach to trait integration that can be systematically applied across different breeding programs, reducing the need for custom, complex procedures for each new trait insertion

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS12599085B2Soybean variety CL1945155
Publication Date: 2026.04.14 SYNGENTA CROP PROTECITON AG

AI summary

The present invention is directed in part to soybean variety CL1945155, CL1945744, CL1945753, CL2044956, CL2045045, CL2045528, and/or CL2045682 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to soybean variety CL1945155, CL1945744, CL1945753, CL2044956, CL2045045, CL2045528, and/or CL2045682 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CL1945155, CL1945744, CL1945753, CL2044956, CL2045045, CL2045528, and/or CL2045682, e.g., in a breeding program.