Soybean XB30C10 Variety Breeding Trait Integration

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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 XB30C10, which is the result of extensive breeding and selection, combining traits like resistance to aerial blight, brown stem rot, and improved fatty acid composition, along with methods for introgressing new traits through backcrossing and transgenic modification to enhance its genetic makeup.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional soybean breeding processes are used to combine multiple desirable traits, then disease resistance and yield improvement are achieved, but the breeding process becomes extremely time-consuming and resource-intensive

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisease resistanceVSAvoidbreeding process time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-characterizing parental lines with specific disease resistance traits (aerial blight, brown stem rot, Phytophthora) and fatty acid profiles before crossing. This preliminary characterization allows breeders to select parents with known, desirable traits, reducing the time needed for trait combination and validation in later breeding stages.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms through systematic evaluation of progeny for both disease resistance traits and fatty acid composition. By measuring these parameters in each generation and using this information to guide subsequent breeding decisions, the process accelerates the combination of desirable traits while reducing wasted time on ineffective crosses.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Stability of the object's composition

If extensive breeding and selection are performed to achieve stable, high-yielding varieties with multiple traits, then variety stability and yield are improved, but the complexity of the breeding program increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevariety stabilityVSAvoidbreeding program complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the breeding program into distinct phases: parental line selection based on specific disease resistance traits, controlled crossing to combine traits, and systematic evaluation of progeny for both agronomic performance and fatty acid composition. This segmentation reduces program complexity by making each stage manageable and independently optimizable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent focuses on specific measurable parameters (disease resistance scores, fatty acid percentages, yield metrics) to track variety stability and improvement. By concentrating on these key parameters rather than attempting to optimize all possible traits simultaneously, the breeding program achieves stability without excessive complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Adaptability or versatility

If backcrossing and transgenic modification methods are used to introgress new traits, then genetic diversity and trait combination are improved, but the manufacturing complexity of the variety increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegenetic diversityVSAvoidvariety development ease
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses backcrossing as an intermediary method to transfer specific disease resistance traits and fatty acid profile characteristics from donor parents to elite breeding lines. This intermediary approach allows gradual integration of complex traits while maintaining the agronomic performance of the recurrent parent, simplifying the overall development process compared to direct creation of entirely new varieties.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS8227668B1Soybean variety XB30C10
Publication Date: 2012.07.24 PIONEER HI BREED INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

A novel soybean variety, designated XB30C10 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB30C10, cells from soybean variety XB30C10, plants of soybean XB30C10, and plant parts of soybean variety XB30C10. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB30C10 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic, mutant trait, and/or native trait into soybean variety XB30C10, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB30C10. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB30C10 are further provided.