Soybean cultivar AR0902417

1. A seed of soybean variety AR0902417, wherein a representative sample of seed of said soybean variety AR0902417 has been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-13552.

2. A soybean plant, or a part thereof, a representative sample of seed of said soybean plant variety AR0902417 has been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-13552.

3. A soybean plant, comprising all the physiological and morphological characteristics of the soybean plant AR0902417, of claim 2 .

4. A plant part of claim 2 , wherein said part is pollen, root, seed, seed coat, cell, leaf, stem, anther, or an ovule.

5. A soybean plant obtained by transforming the soybean variety of claim 2 .

6. A seed of the soybean plant according to claim 5 .

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

8. An F1 soybean seed produced by the method of claim 7 .

9. An F1 soybean seed produced by the method of claim 7 wherein at least one of the soybean plants carries a heritable transgenic event.

10. An F1 soybean plant, or part thereof, produced by growing said seed of claim 9 .

11. A method for developing a second soybean plant through plant breeding comprising applying plant breeding to said soybean plant, or parts thereof according to claim 8 , wherein said plant breeding results in development of said second soybean plant.

12. A method of producing a soybean plant comprising a desired trait, the method comprising introducing at least one transgene or locus conferring the desired trait into a plant of soybean variety AR0902417 according to claim 2 .

13. An insect, disease or herbicide resistant plant produced by the method of claim 12 , wherein the plant comprises all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar AR0902417.

14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect or pest resistance, disease resistance, fungal resistance, modified fatty acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism, drought tolerance, stress tolerance, and modified nutrient deficiency tolerances.

15. The method of claim 12 , wherein the desired trait is herbicide tolerance and the tolerance is conferred to an herbicide selected from the group consisting of glyphosate, sulfonylurea, imidazolinone, dicamba, glufosinate, phosphinothricin, phenoxypropionic acid, cyclohexanedione, triazine, benzonitrile and bromoxynil.

16. A plant produced by the method of claim 12 , wherein the plant has the desired trait, and wherein the plant comprises all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar AR0902417.

17. A method of introducing a desired trait into a soybean variety derived from AR0902417, wherein the method comprises: (a) crossing a AR0902417 plant of claim 2 with a plant of another soybean variety that comprises the desired trait to produce new progeny plants, wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide resistance, disease resistance, insect resistance, modified fatty acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism, resistance to bacterial disease, resistance to fungal disease, and resistance to viral disease; (b) selecting one or more new progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected progeny plants; (c) selfing selected progeny plants or crossing the selected progeny plants with the AR0902417 plants to produce late generation selected progeny plants; (d) crossing or further selecting for later generation selected progeny plants that have the desired trait and physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean variety AR0902417 to produce selected next later generation progeny plants; and optionally (e) repeating crossing or selection of later generation progeny plants to produce progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean variety AR0902417 when grown in the same location and in the same environment.

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

19. A commodity plant product produced by a method comprising the steps of obtaining the plant of claim 2 or a part thereof and producing said commodity plant product wherein said commodity product comprises protein concentrate, protein isolate, soybean hulls, meal, or flour.

20. A seed that produces the plant of claim 16 .