Soybean XB008G11 Trait Integration via Merging and Preliminary Action

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current soybean breeding processes are time-consuming and resource-intensive, aiming to develop stable, high-yielding varieties with desirable traits such as disease resistance, drought tolerance, and improved fatty acid profiles, but face challenges in efficiently combining these traits in a single variety.

Innovation Solution

The development of the soybean variety XB008G11, which has been bred to combine improved traits like disease resistance, drought tolerance, and enhanced agronomic characteristics through careful selection and cross-pollination, with methods for introgressing transgenic or mutant traits to further enhance its properties.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional soybean breeding processes are used to develop varieties with multiple desirable traits, then the variety can achieve stable yield and improved characteristics, but the breeding process becomes time-consuming and resource-intensive

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevariety stabilityVSAvoidbreeding cycle duration
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple desirable traits (disease resistance, drought tolerance, improved fatty acid profiles, and high yield) into a single integrated soybean variety through strategic cross-pollination and selection, allowing simultaneous achievement of multiple objectives without sequential breeding cycles

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The breeding program performs preliminary selection and characterization of parent lines with specific traits before crossing, enabling efficient combination of desirable characteristics in the F1 generation and reducing the overall breeding cycle time through advance preparation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple desirable traits are combined in a single variety through traditional breeding, then the variety achieves comprehensive improvement, but the process requires extensive resources and time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait combination capabilityVSAvoidbreeding program complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program segments the selection process into distinct phases: parent line selection, cross-pollination, F1 generation evaluation, and variety release, allowing systematic management of complex trait combination while maintaining organizational simplicity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The soybean variety XB008G11 is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously - providing disease resistance, drought tolerance, improved fatty acid profiles, and high yield - within a single variety, eliminating the need for multiple separate breeding programs

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS8426695B2Soybean variety XB008G11
Publication Date: 2013.04.23 PIONEER HI BREED INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

A novel soybean variety, designated XB008G11 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB008G11, cells from soybean variety XB008G11, plants of soybean XB008G11, and plant parts of soybean variety XB008G11. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB008G11 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB008G11, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB008G11, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB008G11. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB008G11 are further provided.