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USPTO: us-12628786 · published 2026-05-19 · patents · A01H 6/542· A01H 5/10

Soybean variety 01106484

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classification patents A01H 6/542A01H 5/10
keywords soybeanvarietyplant patentseed depositGlycine maxNCMA accession
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A soybean plant of variety 01106484 is defined by deposited representative seed under NCMA accession.

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The document establishes legal recognition for a specific soybean variety by describing a plant whose seeds have been deposited in a public repository. A sympathetic reader would see this as creating a protectable, reproducible line that breeders and growers can reference for commercial or research use. The claim centers on the variety's existence and stability across generations rather than on any measured performance trait.

Core claim

A plant of soybean variety 01106484, wherein representative seed of said soybean variety have been deposited under NCMA Accession No. ------.

What carries the argument

The deposited seed sample that serves as the physical definition and reference standard for the variety.

If this is right

  • Breeders can legally propagate and sell seed of this exact line.
  • Subsequent varieties derived from it can be tracked back to the same deposited reference.
  • Farmers gain access to a uniform seed source carrying whatever agronomic package the line contains.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the line proves unusually stable under field stress, it could become a recurrent parent in future breeding crosses.
  • The accession number allows independent labs to request seed and test performance claims without needing the original developer.
  • Long-term, the deposit creates a fixed genetic snapshot that future genomic studies could use to map traits present in this background.

Load-bearing premise

The deposited seeds and all their descendants will continue to show the distinctness, uniformity, and stability needed to keep the variety legally recognizable.

What would settle it

A side-by-side grow-out or DNA comparison that demonstrates the deposited line is genetically identical to an earlier released public variety.

read the original abstract

1 . A plant of soybean variety 01106484, wherein representative seed of said soybean variety have been deposited under NCMA Accession No. ------.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. The document asserts a single claim to a soybean plant of variety 01106484 whose identity is defined by reference to representative seed deposited under NCMA Accession No. ------.

Significance. If the accession were supplied and the deposited material were shown to satisfy distinctness, uniformity and stability, the claim would support plant-variety protection; as written, however, the submission contains no phenotypic, genotypic or statistical data and therefore supplies no basis for scientific evaluation.

major comments (1)
  1. Claim 1: the accession identifier is rendered as the placeholder '------' rather than an actual NCMA number. Without a valid accession, no deposited material exists that can be requested or examined, so the factual predicate required for the claim is absent from the document.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

The document adds no free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; it is a legal instrument that references an external seed deposit.

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