Soybean cultivar e2611
A soybean cultivar designated e2611 is disclosed. Embodiments of the invention include the seeds of soybean e2611, the plants of soybean e2611, to plant parts of soybean e2611, and methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean e2611 with itself or with another soybean variety. Embodiments of the invention include methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments of the invention also relate to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean e2611, methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean e2611, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. Embodiments of the invention further include hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing e2611 with another soybean cultivar.
1. A seed of soybean cultivar e2611, wherein a representative sample of seed of said cultivar is deposited under NCIMB No. 41971.
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 are produced from a plant part selected from the group consisting of leaf, pollen, ovule, embryo, cotyledon, hypocotyl, meristematic cell, root, root tip, pistil, anther, flower, seed, shoot, stem, pod and petiole.
4. A soybean plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 3 .
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 said method comprises introducing a gene conferring herbicide resistance into the plant of claim 2 .
9. A herbicide resistant soybean plant produced by the method of claim 8 , wherein the gene confers resistance to a herbicide selected from the group consisting of glyphosate, sulfonylurea, imidazolinone, dicamba, glufosinate, phenoxy proprionic acid, L-phosphinothricin, cyclohexone, cyclohexanedione, triazine, and benzonitrile.
10. A method of producing a pest or insect resistant soybean plant, wherein said method comprises introducing a gene conferring pest or insect resistance into the soybean plant of claim 2 .
11. A pest or insect resistant soybean plant produced by the method of claim 10 .
12. The soybean plant of claim 11 , wherein the gene encodes a Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) endotoxin.
13. A method of producing a disease resistant soybean plant, wherein said method comprises introducing a gene which confers disease resistance into the soybean plant of claim 2 .
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 introducing a gene encoding a protein chosen from phytase, fructosyltransferase, levansucrase, α-amylase, invertase and starch branching enzyme or encoding an antisense of stearyl-ACP desaturase into the soybean plant of claim 2 .
16. A soybean plant having modified fatty acid metabolism or modified carbohydrate metabolism produced by the method of claim 15 .
17. A method of introducing a desired trait into soybean cultivar e2611, wherein the method comprises:
(a) crossing a e2611 plant, wherein a representative sample of seed is deposited under NCIMB No. 41971, with a plant of another soybean cultivar having a desired trait to produce progeny plants, wherein the desired trait is chosen from 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 herbicides, insects, 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 e2611 plant 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 e2611 listed in Table 1; and
(e) repeating steps (c) and (d) three or more times in succession to produce selected third or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar e2611 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 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.
20. A method of producing a commodity plant product, comprising obtaining the plant of claim 2 , or a part thereof, and producing the commodity plant product from said plant or part thereof, wherein the commodity plant product is selected from the group consisting of protein concentrate, protein isolate, soybean hulls, meal, flour and oil.