Soybean XB51F10 Breeding via Molecular Marker Selection

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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 face challenges in efficiently combining these traits in a single variety.

Innovation Solution

The development of the soybean variety XB51F10, which is the result of careful breeding and selection, combining traits such as disease resistance, drought tolerance, and improved agronomic characteristics, along with methods for producing and introgressing new traits through backcrossing and transgenic approaches.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

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

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

Solution Approach 1:

Molecular markers serve as intermediary tools that enable indirect selection of desirable traits. Instead of waiting for phenotypic expression of disease resistance and drought tolerance, breeders use molecular markers linked to these traits to identify and select plants carrying the desired genes, dramatically accelerating the breeding process while maintaining trait reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces traditional mechanical/phenotypic selection methods with molecular-level detection and selection. By using DNA-based molecular markers to identify trait-carrying plants, the process substitutes biochemical analysis for time-consuming field observations and multi-generation breeding trials

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Productivity

If multiple desirable traits are combined in a single variety through traditional breeding, then agronomic improvement is achieved, but the complexity of the breeding program increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveseed yieldVSAvoidbreeding program complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program is segmented into distinct molecular marker-assisted selection steps for different traits. Each desirable trait (yield, disease resistance, drought tolerance) has associated molecular markers that can be independently tracked and selected, allowing complex multi-trait breeding to be broken down into manageable, parallel selection processes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the selection parameter from phenotypic observation to molecular marker detection. By measuring DNA markers instead of waiting for trait expression, the breeding program achieves multiple trait combinations more efficiently, reducing program complexity while maintaining productivity goals

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Stability of the object's composition

If conventional breeding methods are used to develop new varieties, then stable varieties can be produced, but the process requires six to twelve years from first cross to finished seed delivery

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevariety stabilityVSAvoidbreeding efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

Molecular marker analysis is performed preliminarily during early breeding stages to identify and select plants carrying desired traits before advancing to later generations. This preliminary genetic screening ensures that only plants with the correct trait combinations progress through the breeding program, maintaining variety stability while reducing the number of generations needed to reach completion

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS8314296B1Soybean variety XB51F10
Publication Date: 2012.11.20 PIONEER HI BREED INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

A novel soybean variety, designated XB51F10 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB51F10, cells from soybean variety XB51F10, plants of soybean XB51F10, and plant parts of soybean variety XB51F10. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB51F10 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic, mutant trait, and/or native trait into soybean variety XB51F10, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB51F10. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB51F10 are further provided.