Wheat Variety 6PVLC66B Breeding Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current wheat breeding methods face challenges in combining desirable traits such as high seed yield, disease resistance, drought tolerance, and improved milling properties into a single variety, while maintaining uniformity and stability across generations.

Innovation Solution

The development of the wheat variety 6PVLC66B, which involves genetic modification and locus conversion techniques, including transgenic approaches and backcrossing, to introduce traits like herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and improved nutritional quality, while ensuring homozygosity and phenotypic stability through rigorous breeding and selection methods.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple desirable traits are combined into a single wheat variety through breeding, then the variety achieves improved seed yield, disease resistance, and other beneficial characteristics, but the complexity of the breeding process increases significantly with numerous intervention steps

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecombination of desirable traitsVSAvoidbreeding process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding process is segmented into distinct generations (P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6) with specific selection criteria for each generation. This segmentation allows systematic combination of traits through controlled crosses while managing complexity by focusing on specific trait combinations at each stage rather than attempting to combine all traits simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Parental lines are pre-selected and characterized for specific desirable traits before crossing. The P1 parent is selected for high seed yield and good agronomic traits, while the P2 parent is selected for disease resistance and stress tolerance. This preliminary characterization ensures that the desired traits are present in the parental generations before the breeding process begins, reducing the need for extensive later interventions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Stability of the object's composition

If rigorous breeding and selection methods are used to ensure homozygosity and phenotypic stability, then uniformity and stability of desirable traits are achieved, but the time and resources required for development increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvephenotypic stabilityVSAvoidbreeding development time
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program uses a dynamic multi-generation approach where the population structure and selection intensity change at each generation. Early generations (P1-P3) use broader selection to establish trait combinations, while later generations (P4-P6) apply more intensive selection for homozygosity and stability. This dynamic adjustment optimizes the balance between achieving phenotypic stability and managing development time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

Phenotypic evaluation and selection are performed at each generation based on observed traits, providing feedback that guides subsequent breeding decisions. Plants are evaluated for seed yield, disease resistance, and agronomic characteristics at multiple stages, and only those meeting specific criteria advance to the next generation. This feedback mechanism ensures phenotypic stability is achieved through evidence-based selection rather than arbitrary time-based progression.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12035669B2Wheat variety 6PVLC66B
Publication Date: 2024.07.16 PIONEER HI BREED INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

A wheat variety designated 6PVLC66B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PVLC66B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PVLC66B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PVLC66B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety 6PVLC66B are disclosed. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 6PVLC66B and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided.