IP Library Granted Patent US 12,635,652
Granted Patent B2
US 12,635,652 · App. 18/475,665 · Granted May 26, 2026

Soybean cultivar 3616763

Inventor: Pedro Gonzalez-Portilla (Johnston, IA)
Assignee: Confluence Genetics, LLC
A01H6/542A01H5/10
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Patent No.
US 12,635,652
App. No.
18/475,665
Granted
May 26, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A soybean cultivar designated 3616763 is disclosed. Embodiments include the seeds of soybean 3616763, the plants of soybean 3616763, to plant parts of soybean 3616763, and methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean 3616763 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 3616763, methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean 3616763, 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 3616763 with another soybean cultivar.

Claims (20)

1 . A plant or a seed of soybean cultivar 3616763, wherein a representative sample of seed of said cultivar is deposited under NCMA No. 202510011.

2 . A soybean plant, or a part thereof, of the plant or seed of claim 1 , wherein the plant or plant part comprises at least one cell of soybean cultivar 3616763.

3 . A tissue culture comprising at least one cell or protoplast of the plant or plant part of claim 2 .

4 . A method for producing a soybean seed, wherein the method comprises fertilizing a soybean plant and harvesting the resultant soybean seed, wherein the soybean plant is the soybean plant of claim 1 .

5 . A soybean seed produced by the method of claim 4 , wherein the resulting soybean seed is an F 1 offspring or the product of self-fertilization.

6 . A soybean plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing the seed of claim 5 .

7 . A method of producing a plant derived from soybean cultivar 3616763 comprising an added desired trait, wherein the method comprises introducing at least one mutation in a nucleic acid sequence of the soybean plant, or plant part thereof, or seed of claim 1 , wherein the mutation confers the desired trait to at least one cell of soybean cultivar 3616763.

8 . A soybean plant produced by the method of claim 7 , wherein the plant comprises the desired trait and otherwise has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar 3616763.

9 . A method of producing a plant derived from soybean cultivar 3616763, wherein a representative sample of seed of said cultivar is deposited under NCMA No. 202510011, comprising an added desired trait, wherein the method comprises introducing at least one nucleic acid sequence conferring the desired trait to said plant.

10 . A soybean plant produced by the method of claim 9 , wherein the plant comprises the desired trait.

11 . The soybean plant of claim 10 , wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide tolerance, pest tolerance, disease tolerance, 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, modified water use efficiency, and/or combinations thereof.

12 . A method of producing a plant product comprising collecting a plant product from the plant of claim 1 , or plant part thereof.

13 . A soybean plant product produced by the method of claim 12 , wherein the plant product is produced from a plant having at least one cell of soybean cultivar 3616763.

14 . A method of introducing a desired trait into soybean cultivar 3616763, wherein the method comprises: (a) crossing a 3616763 plant, wherein a sample of seed is deposited under NCMA No. 202510011, with a plant of another soybean cultivar having a desired trait to produce progeny plants; (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 3616763 plant to produce backcross progeny plants; (d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait; and (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) a sufficient number of times in succession to produce selected second or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and essentially all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar 3616763.

15 . A soybean plant produced by the method of claim 14 wherein the plant has the desired trait.

16 . A method for developing a soybean plant, comprising applying plant breeding techniques to the plant of claim 1 , or plant part thereof, comprising crossing, recurrent selection, mutation breeding, wherein said mutation breeding selects for a mutation that is spontaneous or artificially induced, backcrossing, genomic selection, pedigree breeding, marker enhanced selection, haploid/double haploid production, or transformation, wherein application of said techniques results in development of a new soybean plant.

17 . A method of introducing a mutation into the genome of soybean cultivar 3616763, said method comprising mutagenesis of the plant of claim 1 , or a part thereof.

18 . A method of editing the genome of soybean cultivar 3616763, said method comprising editing the genome of the plant, of claim 1 , or plant part thereof, wherein said method is selected from the group consisting of zinc finger nucleases, transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), engineered homing endonucleases/meganucleases, and the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-associated protein9 (Cas9) system.

19 . A soybean plant produced by the method of claim 18 , wherein said plant consists of the edited genome and otherwise has all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar 3616763.

20 . The seed, or part thereof, of claim 1 , wherein the seed further comprises at least one seed treatment.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 10, 2025
From: BENSON HILL SEEDS, INC.
To: CONFLUENCE GENETICS, LLC
Reel/Frame 071578/0923 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 30, 2025
From: BENSON HILL, INC.; BENSON HILL HOLDINGS, INC.; BENSON HILL FRESH, LLC; BENSON HILL SEEDS HOLDING, INC.; BENSON HILL SEEDS, INC.; BHB HOLDINGS, LLC; J&J SOUTHERN FARMS, LLC
To: CONFLUENCE GENETICS, LLC
Reel/Frame 071982/0368 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 28, 2023
From: GONZALEZ-PORTILLA, PEDRO
To: BENSON HILL SEEDS, INC.
Reel/Frame 065057/0896 →
Continuity (1)
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