Wheat Variety 6PWBD39B Breeding Segmentation

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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 6PWBD39B, 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 exhibits improved seed yield, disease resistance, and drought tolerance, but maintaining uniformity and stability across generations becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecombination of desirable traitsVSAvoiduniformity and stability across generations
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding process is segmented into distinct stages: initial cross-breeding to combine traits, followed by separate selection phases for disease resistance, drought tolerance, and yield. This segmentation allows each trait to be optimized independently while maintaining overall variety stability across generations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Rigorous selection and screening processes are performed in advance during the breeding stages to identify and eliminate unwanted genetic variations. This preliminary action ensures that only the desired trait combinations are propagated, maintaining uniformity when the variety is grown across generations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If genetic modification and locus conversion techniques are used to introduce traits, then herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and nutritional quality are improved, but the complexity of the breeding process increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveherbicide resistance, disease resistance, nutritional qualityVSAvoidcomplexity of breeding process
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Marker-assisted selection serves as an intermediary tool that simplifies the complex process of introducing multiple traits. Molecular markers act as indicators that guide the breeding process, allowing breeders to track and select for specific genes (such as herbicide resistance and disease resistance genes) without having to manually screen for each trait, thereby reducing overall process complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The breeding approach utilizes parameter changes by modifying specific genetic loci through targeted techniques such as locus conversion and transgenic approaches. By changing specific genetic parameters rather than the entire genome, the process introduces desired traits (herbicide resistance, disease resistance, nutritional quality) while managing complexity through precision rather than broad modification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Stability of the object's composition

If rigorous breeding and selection methods are applied to ensure homozygosity and phenotypic stability, then uniformity is maintained, but the time required for variety development increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvehomozygosity and phenotypic stabilityVSAvoidtime required for variety development
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Traditional mechanical selection methods (visual inspection and manual selection) are replaced with molecular marker-based selection systems. This substitution allows for rapid identification of homozygous individuals and stable phenotypic traits without requiring multiple generations of field testing, significantly reducing the time required to achieve and verify homozygosity and phenotypic stability.

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

Solution Approach 2:

Once a wheat variety with desired traits and stable phenotype is developed, it can be replicated and propagated efficiently. The variety serves as a stable template that can be copied across multiple generations and locations, reducing the time required for variety development by eliminating the need to re-establish stability each time the variety is propagated.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS11202424B1Wheat variety 6PWBD39B
Publication Date: 2021.12.21 PIONEER HI BREED INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

A wheat variety designated 6PWBD39B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PWBD39B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PWBD39B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PWBD39B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety 6PWBD39B are disclosed. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 6PWBD39B and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided.