Soybean cultivar 179609121658
A soybean cultivar designated 179609121658 is disclosed. Embodiments include the seeds of soybean 179609121658, the plants of soybean 179609121658, to plant parts of soybean 179609121658, and methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean 179609121658 with itself or with another soybean variety. Embodiments 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 also relate to soybean cultivars, breeding cultivars, plant parts, and cells derived from soybean 179609121658, methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean 179609121658, and the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. Embodiments further include hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing 179609121658 with another soybean cultivar.
1. A seed of soybean cultivar 179609121658, wherein a sample of seed of soybean cultivar 179609121658 is deposited under NCIMB No. 43418.
2. A soybean plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing the seed of claim 1 , wherein the plant or plant part comprises at least one cell of soybean cultivar 179609121658.
3. A soybean plant regenerated from the plant part of claim 2 , wherein said regenerated plant has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar 179609121658 listed in Table 1.
4. 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 .
5. An F 1 soybean seed produced by the method of claim 4 .
6. A soybean plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing the seed of claim 5 .
7. A method of producing an herbicide resistant soybean plant, wherein the method comprises introducing a gene conferring herbicide resistance into the plant of claim 2 .
8. An herbicide resistant soybean plant produced by the method of claim 7 , wherein the gene confers resistance to an herbicide selected from the group consisting of glyphosate, sulfonylurea, imidazolinone, dicamba, glufosinate, phenoxy proprionic acid, L-phosphinothricin, cyclohexone, cyclohexanedione, triazine, PPO-herbicides, bromoxynil, and benzonitrile, and wherein said plant comprises all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar 179609121658 listed in Table 1.
9. A method of producing a pest or insect resistant soybean plant, wherein the method comprises introducing a gene conferring pest or insect resistance into the soybean plant of claim 2 , and wherein said plant comprises all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar 179609121658 listed in Table 1.
10. A pest or insect resistant soybean plant produced by the method of claim 9 , and wherein said plant comprises all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar 179609121658 listed in Table 1.
11. The soybean plant of claim 10 , wherein the gene encodes a Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) endotoxin, and wherein said plant comprises all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar 179609121658 listed in Table 1.
12. A method of producing a disease resistant soybean plant, wherein the method comprises introducing a gene which confers disease resistance into the soybean plant of claim 2 , and wherein said plant comprises all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar 179609121658 listed in Table 1.
13. A disease resistant soybean plant produced by the method of claim 12 , and wherein said plant comprises all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar 179609121658 listed in Table 1.
14. 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 polynucleotide effective for inhibition of expression of stearyl-ACP desaturase into the soybean plant of claim 2 .
15. A soybean plant having modified fatty acid metabolism or modified carbohydrate metabolism produced by the method of claim 14 , and wherein said plant comprises all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar 179609121658 listed in Table 1.
16. A method of introducing a desired trait into soybean cultivar 179609121658, wherein the method comprises:
(a) crossing a 179609121658 plant, wherein a sample of seed is deposited under NCIMB No. 43418, 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 seed oil, modified seed protein, 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 179609121658 plant to produce backcross progeny plants;
(d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait; 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 179609121658 listed in Table 1.
17. A soybean plant produced by the method of claim 16 wherein the plant has the desired trait.
18. The soybean plant of claim 17 , 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 polynucleotide effective for inhibition of expression of stearyl-ACP desaturase.
19. 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 the 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.
20. A plant of soybean cultivar 179609121658, wherein a representative sample of seed of said variety is deposited under NCIMB No. 43418.