Soybean Variety 01094840 for Multi-Trait Resistance and Yield

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing soybean varieties lack improved combinations of traits such as higher seed yield, disease resistance, insect resistance, drought tolerance, heat tolerance, better agronomic quality, and herbicide resistance, which are essential for maximizing grain production and meeting the demands of food and animal feed.

Innovation Solution

Development of the novel soybean variety 01094840, which includes genetic modifications for herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and improved nutritional quality, achieved through genetic transformation using engineered nucleases and single locus conversions, along with breeding methods like backcrossing and hybridization to enhance desired traits.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional soybean varieties are used, then basic crop production is maintained, but improved combinations of traits such as higher seed yield, disease resistance, insect resistance, drought tolerance, heat tolerance, agronomic quality, and herbicide resistance are lacking

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisease resistanceVSAvoidseed yield
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple desirable traits including disease resistance, insect resistance, drought tolerance, heat tolerance, agronomic quality, and herbicide resistance into a single soybean variety (01094840) through genetic transformation and breeding programs, resolving the contradiction by merging previously separate trait improvements into one integrated variety that achieves both reliability and productivity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Reliability

If genetic transformations and breeding methods are applied to improve traits, then herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and nutritional quality are enhanced, but the complexity of development steps increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveherbicide resistanceVSAvoidbreeding program complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs genetic transformation techniques and engineered nucleases to introduce desirable traits (such as herbicide resistance) at the genetic level before traditional breeding steps, performing preliminary genetic modification that simplifies subsequent breeding operations and reduces the overall complexity of developing multi-trait varieties

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12396428B2Soybean variety 01094840
Publication Date: 2025.08.26 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01094840. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01094840. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01094840 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01094840 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.