Soybean XB49Q07 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 agronomic qualities, but face challenges in efficiently combining these traits in a single variety.

Innovation Solution

The development of the soybean variety XB49Q07, which exhibits a valuable combination of traits such as resistance to SCN race 3, sudden death syndrome, southern stem canker, and drought tolerance, along with herbicide resistance and improved yield potential, achieved through careful breeding and selection.

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 potential are improved, but the breeding time and resource consumption increase significantly

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

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-selecting parental lines with specific desirable traits (SCN resistance, SDS tolerance, drought tolerance) before crossing. This advance preparation of parental germplasm with known trait profiles accelerates the breeding process while ensuring the combination of multiple resistance traits in the final variety XB49Q07

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If multiple resistance traits are combined in a single variety, then overall crop protection is improved, but the complexity of the breeding program increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoverall crop protectionVSAvoidbreeding program complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple resistance traits (SCN race 3 resistance, SDS tolerance, southern stem canker resistance, drought tolerance) into a single soybean variety XB49Q07 through systematic crossing and selection. This combining of previously separate trait improvements into one unified variety reduces the need for multiple separate breeding programs and simplifies adoption for farmers

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Productivity

If extensive crossing and selection is performed to achieve high yield potential, then grain production is improved, but resource efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegrain productionVSAvoidresource efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs feedback mechanisms through multi-location and multi-year yield trials to evaluate the performance of breeding lines. This systematic feedback from field data allows breeders to select the most promising lines for advancement, ensuring that resources are focused on lines with proven high yield potential under various environmental conditions, thereby improving resource efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS7629505B2Soybean variety XB49Q07
Publication Date: 2009.12.08 PIONEER HI BREED INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB49Q07. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB49Q07, to the plants of soybean XB49Q07 to plant parts of soybean variety XB49Q07 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety XB49Q07 with another soybean plant, using XB49Q07 as either the male or the female parent.