Soybean XB37V09 Trait Stacking for Yield and Disease Resistance

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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 like disease resistance, drought tolerance, and improved fatty acid profiles, but often result in only a few commercially viable varieties from thousands of potential ones.

Innovation Solution

The development of the soybean variety XB37V09, which combines traits such as glyphosate resistance, multi-race Phytophthora resistance, and excellent field emergence, achieved through careful breeding and selection, allowing for the creation of a stable and high-yielding soybean line with improved agronomic qualities.

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 stability and agronomic quality are improved, but the development time and resource consumption increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevariety stabilityVSAvoiddevelopment time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-screening parental lines for specific desirable traits (glyphosate resistance, Phytophthora resistance, yield potential) before crossing. This preliminary selection and characterization of parent plants reduces the time needed for variety development by ensuring that only the most promising genetic combinations are pursued through the breeding process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If extensive breeding and selection is performed to create high-yielding varieties, then the grain production is improved, but the number of commercially viable varieties remains very small compared to potential varieties

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegrain productionVSAvoidbreeding process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by systematically evaluating and selecting parental lines based on specific quantitative parameters including yield potential, disease resistance levels, and fatty acid profiles. By changing and optimizing these genetic parameters in the parent selection process, the breeding program efficiently identifies high-yielding varieties that meet commercial viability thresholds.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple traits are combined in a single soybean variety, then the agronomic quality and commercial value are improved, but the breeding difficulty and selection complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveagronomic qualityVSAvoidbreeding process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies merging by combining multiple desirable traits from different parental lines into a single soybean variety. Specifically, it merges glyphosate resistance from one parent, Phytophthora resistance from another, and high yield potential from selected lines, creating a unified variety that exhibits all these traits simultaneously through controlled crossing and selection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS8097784B1Soybean variety XB37V09
Publication Date: 2012.01.17 PIONEER HI BREED INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB37V09. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB37V09, to the plants of soybean XB37V09 to plant parts of soybean variety XB37V09 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety XB37V09 with another soybean plant, using XB37V09 as either the male or the female parent.