Soybean Cultivar 26034631

• US 20090208634A1
• Filed: 02/20/2008
• Published: 08/20/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mertec LLC
• Original Assignee: Mertec LLC
• Inventors: Schultze, Dennis L.
• Granted Patent: US 7,759,552 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 426/634
• CPC Class Codes: A01H 5/10 Seeds
• CPC Class Codes: A01H 6/542 Glycine max [soybean]
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 11/03 Soya beans, e.g. full-fat soya bean flakes or grits

Abstract

A soybean cultivar designated 26034631 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 26034631, to the plants of soybean 26034631, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 26034631 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 26034631 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from soybean variety 26034631, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 26034631 and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar 26034631 with another soybean cultivar.

Claims

1. A seed of soybean cultivar 26034631, representative sample seed of said cultivar was deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-______.

2. A soybean plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing the seed of claim 1.

3. A tissue culture produced from protoplasts or cells from the plant of claim 2, wherein said cells or protoplasts of the tissue culture are produced from a plant part selected from the group consisting of leaf, pollen, embryo, cotyledon, hypocotyl, meristematic cell, root, root tip, pistil, anther, flower, shoot, stem, pod and petiole.

4. A soybean plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 3, wherein the plant has all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of cultivar 26034631.

5. A method for producing a soybean seed comprising crossing two soybean plants and harvesting the resultant soybean seed, wherein at least one soybean plant is the soybean plant of claim 2.

6. A soybean seed produced by the method of claim 5.

7. A soybean plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing said seed of claim 6.

8. A method of producing an herbicide resistant soybean plant wherein the method comprises transforming the soybean plant of claim 2 with a transgene wherein the transgene confers resistance to an herbicide selected from the group consisting of imidazolinone, cyclohexanedione, sulfonylurea, glyphosate, glufosinate, phenoxy proprionic acid, L-phosphinothricin, triazine and benzonitrile.

9. An herbicide resistant soybean plant produced by the method of claim 8.

10. A method of producing a pest or insect resistant soybean plant wherein the method comprises transforming the soybean plant of claim 2 with a transgene that confers pest or insect resistance.

11. A pest or insect resistant soybean plant produced by the method of claim 10.

12. The soybean plant of claim 11, wherein the transgene encodes a Bacillus thuringiensis endotoxin.

13. A method of producing a disease resistant soybean plant wherein the method comprises transforming the soybean plant of claim 2 with a transgene that confers disease resistance.

14. A disease resistant soybean plant produced by the method of claim 13.

15. A method of producing a soybean plant with modified fatty acid metabolism or modified carbohydrate metabolism wherein the method comprises transforming the soybean plant of claim 2 with a transgene encoding a protein selected from the group consisting of phytase, fructosyltransferase, levansucrase, α

-amylase, invertase and starch branching enzyme or encoding an antisense of stearyl-ACP desaturase.

16. A soybean plant having modified fatty acid metabolism or modified carbohydrate metabolism produced by the method of claim 15.

22. A food or feed product comprising a component from the seed of claim 1 following crushing or extraction.

17. A method of introducing a desired trait into soybean cultivar 26034631 wherein the method comprises:

(a) crossing a 26034631 plant, wherein a representative sample of seed was deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-______, with a plant of another soybean cultivar that comprises a desired trait to produce progeny plants wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, modified fatty acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism, modified seed yield, modified oil percent, modified protein percent, modified lodging resistance, modified shattering, modified iron-deficiency chlorosis and resistance to bacterial disease, fungal disease or viral disease;

(b) selecting one or more progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected progeny plants;

(c) crossing the selected progeny plants with the 26034631 plants to produce backcross progeny plants;

(d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar 26034631 listed in Table 1; and

(e) repeating steps (c) and (d) three or more times in succession to produce selected fourth or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar 26034631 listed in Table 1.

18. A soybean plant produced by the method of claim 17, wherein the plant has the desired trait.

19. The soybean plant of claim 18, wherein the desired trait is herbicide resistance and the resistance is conferred to an herbicide selected from the group consisting of imidazolinone, cyclohexanedione, sulfonylurea, glyphosate, glufosinate, phenoxy proprionic acid, L-phosphinothricin, triazine and benzonitrile.

20. The soybean plant of claim 18, wherein the desired trait is insect resistance and the insect resistance is conferred by a transgene encoding a Bacillus thuringiensis endotoxin.

21. The soybean plant of claim 18, wherein the desired trait is modified fatty acid metabolism or modified carbohydrate metabolism and said desired trait is conferred by a nucleic acid encoding a protein selected from the group consisting of phytase, fructosyltransferase, levansucrase, α

-amylase, invertase and starch branching enzyme or encoding an antisense of stearyl-ACP desaturase.