Soybean XBP28006 Breeding via Marker-Assisted 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 soybean variety XBP28006, 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 cross-pollination and backcrossing to achieve homozygosity and phenotypic stability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional breeding methods are used to combine multiple desirable traits in soybean varieties, then the desired traits (disease resistance, drought tolerance, improved fatty acid profiles) can be achieved, but the breeding process becomes extremely time-consuming and resource-intensive

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait stabilityVSAvoidbreeding duration
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-screening parental lines for specific desirable traits (disease resistance, drought tolerance, fatty acid profiles) before crossing. This preliminary selection and characterization of parent plants allows the breeding program to start with genetically optimized parents, reducing the number of generations needed to stabilize traits in progeny and thereby shortening the overall breeding timeline while maintaining trait reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Stability of the object's composition

If multiple generations of cross-pollination and backcrossing are performed to achieve homozygosity and phenotypic stability, then uniform and stable varieties are produced, but the complexity and resource requirements of the breeding program increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvephenotypic stabilityVSAvoidbreeding process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback by systematically evaluating progeny plants for presence of desired traits and phenotypic uniformity at each generation. This feedback mechanism allows breeders to identify and select homozygous lines earlier in the breeding process, reducing the number of backcrossing generations needed to achieve phenotypic stability. The feedback loop between trait evaluation and selection decisions simplifies the overall breeding process while maintaining composition stability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Manufacturing precision

If extensive screening and selection are conducted to identify plants with improved fatty acid profiles and disease resistance, then the quality and nutritional value of the soybean variety are enhanced, but the labor and resource costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefatty acid profile precisionVSAvoidresource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies mechanics substitution by replacing extensive manual screening and phenotypic evaluation with molecular marker-based selection. DNA markers associated with desired fatty acid profiles and disease resistance traits are used to identify plants carrying these traits at the molecular level, eliminating the need for time-consuming and resource-intensive field trials and chemical analysis, thereby achieving precise trait selection with reduced resource consumption

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

Data Source

PatentUS8722973B1Soybean variety XBP28006
Publication Date: 2014.05.13 PIONEER HI BREED INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

A novel soybean variety, designated XBP28006 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XBP28006, cells from soybean variety XBP28006, plants of soybean XBP28006, and plant parts of soybean variety XBP28006. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XBP28006 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XBP28006, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XBP28006, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XBP28006. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XBP28006 are further provided.