Soybean XBP30007 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 such as disease resistance, drought tolerance, and improved fatty acid profiles, while existing methods face challenges in efficiently combining these traits in a single variety.

Innovation Solution

The development of a novel soybean variety, XBP30007, which is the result of careful breeding and selection, combining traits like resistance to aerial web blight, aphid antibiosis, and improved fatty acid profiles, through a process involving crossing, introgression of transgenic or mutant traits, and characterization methods.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional soybean breeding methods are used to combine multiple desirable traits, then the variety achieves improved disease resistance and yield, 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 applies preliminary action by pre-selecting parental lines with specific desirable traits (disease resistance, yield potential, fatty acid profiles) before crossing. This preliminary selection and characterization of parent plants accelerates the breeding process by ensuring that the desired traits are already present in the parental generation, reducing the time needed for multiple generations of selection and testing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Stability of the object's composition

If multiple generations of selection and crossing are performed to achieve stable varieties, then the variety achieves uniformity and stability, but the development process takes six to twelve years

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevariety uniformityVSAvoidvariety development time
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies mechanics substitution by replacing traditional mechanical breeding methods (repeated crossing and selection over multiple generations) with molecular marker-assisted selection. This allows for direct identification and selection of plants carrying desired genetic traits without requiring multiple generations of phenotypic selection, dramatically reducing the time from six to twelve years to a fraction of that time while maintaining variety uniformity and stability.

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

3Adaptability or versatility

If extensive breeding programs are conducted to combine desirable traits, then the variety achieves improved agronomic characteristics, but resources are consumed inefficiently

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveagronomic characteristicsVSAvoidbreeding program resources
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies feedback by using molecular markers to continuously monitor and identify plants carrying desired traits during the breeding process. This feedback mechanism allows breeders to make informed decisions at each generation, selecting only those plants that carry the target traits, thereby eliminating unnecessary crossing and selection steps that would consume resources inefficiently while still achieving comprehensive agronomic improvement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS9024121B1Soybean variety XBP30007
Publication Date: 2015.05.05 PIONEER HI BREED INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

A novel soybean variety, designated XBP30007 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XBP30007, cells from soybean variety XBP30007, plants of soybean XBP30007, and plant parts of soybean variety XBP30007. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XBP30007 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XBP30007, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XBP30007, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XBP30007. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XBP30007 are further provided.