6PLHA90B Wheat Breeding for Yield, Disease Resistance, and Drought Tolerance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing wheat varieties lack a comprehensive combination of desirable traits such as higher seed yield, disease resistance, drought and heat tolerance, altered milling properties, and improved agronomic characteristics, necessitating the development of a new variety that addresses these needs.

Innovation Solution

The development of the wheat variety 6PLHA90B, which is homozygous and stable, incorporating traits like disease resistance, drought tolerance, and improved agronomic characteristics, achieved through methods such as cross-pollination, genetic transformation, and backcrossing, allowing for the introduction of transgenes to enhance specific traits.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional wheat varieties are used, then simplicity and ease of cultivation are maintained, but they lack comprehensive desirable traits such as higher seed yield, disease resistance, and drought tolerance

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisease resistance and drought toleranceVSAvoidgenetic modification complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple desirable traits (disease resistance, drought tolerance, higher seed yield) from different parental lines into a single wheat variety through systematic breeding programs, creating a unified genotype that expresses all these traits simultaneously

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses molecular markers as intermediaries to track and select for desirable traits during the breeding process, enabling precise selection of plants that carry the desired genetic combinations without direct observation of the traits themselves

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If multiple desirable traits are combined through breeding, then seed yield and resistance improve, but the development time and complexity increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveseed yieldVSAvoidbreeding development time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary selection of parental lines that already possess desired traits before initiating the breeding program, and uses molecular marker screening early in the breeding process to identify promising progeny, thereby reducing the overall development time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements continuous selection and evaluation across multiple generations of breeding, maintaining ongoing improvement of the wheat variety through repeated cycles of crossing, selection, and testing rather than discrete one-time interventions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

3Measurement precision

If traditional breeding methods are used, then genetic diversity is maintained, but the precision and speed of introducing specific traits are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait selection precisionVSAvoidbreeding process simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces traditional phenotypic selection (visual inspection and manual selection) with molecular marker-based genotypic selection, using DNA analysis to precisely identify plants carrying desired traits regardless of their current phenotypic expression

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS12376539B2Wheat variety 6PLHA90B
Publication Date: 2025.08.05 PIONEER HI BREED INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

A wheat variety designated 6PLHA90B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PLHA90B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PLHA90B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PLHA90B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety 6PLHA90B are disclosed. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 6PLHA90B and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided.