Hard Red Winter Wheat Breeding for Yield and Trait Stacking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing wheat cultivars lack improved combinations of desirable traits such as higher seed yield, disease resistance, insect resistance, drought tolerance, heat tolerance, better agronomic quality, and herbicide resistance, which are essential for enhancing wheat productivity and versatility in various applications.

Innovation Solution

Development of the wheat cultivar 01095241, which is a hard red winter type common wheat bred for winter wheat growing regions, incorporating genetic modifications and traditional breeding techniques to enhance traits like seed yield, disease resistance, and herbicide tolerance, along with the use of transgenic methods to introduce specific genes for improved characteristics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If traditional breeding techniques are used to develop wheat cultivars, then genetic diversity is maintained, but the speed of improving multiple desirable traits simultaneously is limited

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

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines traditional breeding techniques with modern biotechnological methods including tissue culture, genetic transformation, and molecular marker-assisted selection to simultaneously achieve multiple desirable traits in wheat cultivars, thereby accelerating the breeding process while maintaining genetic diversity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses tissue culture and cell suspension systems as intermediary technologies to rapidly multiply and select plants with desired traits, serving as a bridge between conventional breeding and genetic engineering to speed up cultivar development

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If multiple desirable traits are combined in a single wheat cultivar, then agronomic quality and resistance are improved, but the complexity of breeding programs increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisease resistanceVSAvoidbreeding program complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs preliminary selection of parent lines with specific desirable traits and uses molecular marker-assisted selection to pre-identify plants carrying multiple resistance genes before field testing, thereby simplifying the overall breeding program complexity while achieving improved reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies different breeding strategies to different traits within the same program, using conventional crossing for some traits and biotechnological methods for others, allowing each trait to be optimized with the most appropriate method while managing overall program complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Adaptability or versatility

If transgenic methods are used to introduce specific genes, then herbicide resistance and other traits are enhanced, but regulatory and public acceptance challenges arise

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveherbicide resistanceVSAvoidregulatory approval
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs a flexible, multi-stage breeding approach where transgenic events can be introduced at different stages and optionally removed through backcrossing, allowing the breeding program to adapt to regulatory requirements and public acceptance considerations while maintaining the ability to enhance herbicide resistance and other traits

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS12527275B2Wheat cultivar 01095241
Publication Date: 2026.01.20 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated 01095241. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar 01095241. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar 01095241 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar 01095241 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.