1. A seed of soybean cultivar S100108, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-12722.
2. A plant of soybean cultivar S100108, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-12722.
3. A plant part of the plant of claim 2.
4. A tissue culture of regenerable cells of soybean cultivar S100108, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-12722.
5. A soybean plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 4, wherein the regenerated soybean plant expresses all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of the soybean cultivar S100108, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-12722.
6. A method of soybean breeding comprising crossing a plant of soybean cultivar S100108 with itself or a second soybean plant, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-12722.
7. The method of claim 6, further comprising crossing a plant of soybean cultivar S100108 with a second soybean plant of a different genotype to produce hybrid soybean seed, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-12722.
8. An F1 hybrid seed produced by the method of claim 9.
9. A method of producing a plant of soybean cultivar S100108 comprising an added desired trait, the method comprising introducing a transgene conferring the desired trait into a plant of soybean cultivar S100108, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-12722.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect or pest resistance, disease resistance, modified fatty acid metabolism, and modified carbohydrate metabolism.
11. A plant produced by the method of claim 9 or a selfed progeny thereof.
12. A method of introducing a single locus conversion into soybean cultivar S100108 comprising:
(a) crossing a plant of soybean cultivar S100108 with a second plant comprising a desired single locus to produce F1 progeny plants, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-12722;
(b) selecting at least a first progeny plant from step (a) that comprises the single locus to produce a selected progeny plant;
(c) crossing the selected progeny plant from step (b) with a plant of soybean cultivar S100108 to produce at least a first backcross progeny plant that comprises the single locus; and
(d) repeating steps (b) and (c) with the selected backcross progeny plant from step (d) used in place of the first progeny plant of step (b) during said repeating, wherein steps (b) and (c) are repeated until at least a first backcross progeny plant is produced comprising the single locus and essentially all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar S100108 when grown in the same environmental conditions.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein the single locus confers a trait selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect or pest resistance, disease resistance, modified fatty acid metabolism, abiotic stress resistance, and modified carbohydrate metabolism.
14. A soybean plant derived from soybean cultivar S100108, further comprising a single locus conversion, wherein the single locus conversion is introduced into soybean cultivar S100108 by backcrossing or genetic transformation, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-12722.
15. The method of claim 7, wherein the method further comprises:
(a) crossing a plant grown from said hybrid soybean seed with itself or a different soybean plant to produce a seed of a progeny plant of a subsequent generation.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises:
(b) growing a progeny plant of a subsequent generation from said seed of a progeny plant of a subsequent generation and crossing the progeny plant of a subsequent generation with itself or a second plant to produce a progeny plant of a further subsequent generation.
17. The method of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises:
(c) repeating steps (a) and (b) using said progeny plant of a further subsequent generation from step (b) in place of the plant grown from said hybrid soybean seed in step (a), wherein steps (a) and (b) are repeated with sufficient inbreeding to produce an inbred soybean plant derived from the soybean cultivar S100108.
18. A method of introducing a mutation into the genome of soybean cultivar S100108, said method comprising applying a mutagen to the plant of claim 2, or a part thereof, wherein said mutagen is selected from the group consisting of ethyl methanesulphonate, gamma-rays, and sodium azide.
19. A mutagenized soybean plant produced by the method of claim 18.
20. A method of producing a commodity plant product comprising obtaining the plant of claim 2 or a part thereof and producing said commodity plant product therefrom.
21. The method of claim 20, wherein the commodity plant product is protein concentrate, protein isolate, soybean hulls, meal, flour or oil.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A wheel bearing device comprising:
an outer member formed with double-row outer races on an inner periphery thereof;
an inner member having a wheel hub having a flange for attachment of a wheel and a fitting member fitted to either one of an inner periphery and an outer periphery of the wheel hub, the inner member being formed with double-row inner races on an outer surface thereof, one of the wheel hub and the fitting member that is located inside being expanded radially outward by plastic deformation, thereby uniting the wheel hub and the fitting member; and
double-row rollers interposed between the outer races and inner races, wherein at least one of the wheel hub and the fitting member is made of a steel material comprising iron, 0.5 to 0.7 weight % of carbon, 0.1 to 1.5 weight % of silicon, 0.6 to 1.0 weight % of manganese, and inevitable impurities, wherein said steel material has an austenite grain size number of 3 or more.
2. The wheel bearing device according to claim 1, wherein said steel material contains silicon in an amount of 0.6 to 1.2% by weight.
3. The wheel bearing device according to any one of claims 1 to 2, wherein the fitting member is an outer joint member of a constant velocity joint, and the double-row inner races are formed on outer peripheries of the wheel hub and the outer joint member.
4. The wheel bearing device according to any one of claims 1 to 2, wherein the fitting member is an inner ring fitted to the outer periphery of the wheel hub.
5. The wheel bearing device according to claim 4, wherein the double-row inner races are formed on outer peripheries of the wheel hub and the inner ring.
6. The wheel bearing device according to claim 4, wherein the double-row inner races are formed on outer peripheries of two inner rings fitted to the outer periphery of the wheel hub.