Soybean Variety XBP22003 Marker-Assisted Breeding

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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 XBP22003, which is the result of careful breeding and selection, combining traits such as resistance to aerial web blight, aphid antibiosis, and improved fatty acid profiles, through a process involving backcrossing and genetic marker-assisted breeding to ensure homozygosity and phenotypic stability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional breeding methods are used to develop soybean varieties with multiple desirable traits, then disease resistance and yield improvement 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:

The patent employs marker-assisted selection where DNA markers provide feedback on the presence of desired traits during breeding. This allows breeders to select plants with target traits earlier in the breeding process, reducing the time required to develop varieties with disease resistance and other desirable characteristics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces traditional mechanical phenotypic selection methods with molecular marker-based genotypic selection. Instead of visually assessing disease resistance in the field, breeders use DNA markers to identify plants carrying resistance genes, significantly accelerating the breeding process.

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

2Productivity

If multiple desirable traits are combined in a single soybean variety through breeding, then agronomic performance and yield are improved, but the complexity of the breeding program increases

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

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the breeding program into discrete segments, each targeting specific traits. DNA markers are assigned to specific genomic regions associated with individual traits, allowing breeders to track and combine multiple traits systematically through separate selection steps rather than attempting to manage all traits simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses DNA markers as intermediaries between the breeder and the target traits. These markers serve as proxies for difficult-to-assess traits like disease resistance, enabling indirect selection that simplifies the breeding program while still achieving the desired multi-trait combinations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Stability of the object's composition

If careful selection and backcrossing are performed to ensure homozygosity and stability, then phenotypic uniformity is achieved, but the breeding process requires more generations and time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvephenotypic stabilityVSAvoidgenerations required
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary selection using DNA markers before advancing plants to later breeding generations. By identifying and selecting homozygous individuals early in the breeding process based on marker data, the program reduces the number of generations needed to achieve phenotypic stability and uniformity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces traditional multi-generation phenotypic observation methods with single-generation genotypic analysis using DNA markers. This substitution allows breeders to predict phenotypic stability from genotypic data, dramatically reducing the time required to develop stable varieties.

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

Data Source

PatentUS8937222B1Soybean variety XBP22003
Publication Date: 2015.01.20 PIONEER HI BREED INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

A novel soybean variety, designated XBP22003 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XBP22003, cells from soybean variety XBP22003, plants of soybean XBP22003, and plant parts of soybean variety XBP22003. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XBP22003 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XBP22003, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XBP22003, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XBP22003. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XBP22003 are further provided.