Wheat Variety 6PWGL11B Trait Stability Breeding

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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 wheat variety, while maintaining uniformity and stability across generations.

Innovation Solution

The development of the wheat variety 6PWGL11B, which involves genetic modification and locus conversion techniques, including transgenic approaches and backcrossing, to introduce traits like herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and altered nutritional content, while ensuring homozygosity and phenotypic stability through rigorous breeding and selection methods.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If multiple desirable traits are combined into a single wheat variety through breeding, then the variety exhibits improved yield, disease resistance, and nutritional quality, but the complexity of the breeding process increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait stabilityVSAvoidbreeding process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding process is segmented into distinct generations (P, F1, F2, F3, etc.) with specific selection objectives for each generation. This segmentation allows systematic combination of multiple traits through controlled crosses and selection at different stages, making the complex process manageable and reproducible

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Parental lines are pre-selected and characterized for specific desirable traits before crossing. The P generation parents are specifically chosen to contribute different desirable traits (e.g., disease resistance from one parent, yield potential from another), preparing the genetic material in advance to facilitate efficient trait combination in subsequent generations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Stability of the object's composition

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

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

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program employs periodic selection cycles across multiple generations (F2, F3, F4, etc.) where plants are evaluated and selected at regular intervals. This periodic action ensures progressive accumulation of desirable traits and stabilization of phenotypes through repeated selection pressure, achieving homozygosity systematically over time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Solution Approach 2:

Once a stable, homozygous line is developed through multiple generations of selection, it is copied and propagated to maintain uniformity. The stabilized genotype is replicated across multiple plants and locations to ensure consistent phenotypic expression, reducing the need for continued lengthy selection processes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Manufacturing precision

If genetic modification techniques are used to introduce specific traits, then precision in trait introduction is improved, but the complexity of the modification process increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait introduction precisionVSAvoidgenetic modification complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Traditional cross-breeding serves as an intermediary method to introduce and combine traits before final stabilization. By using controlled crosses between parental lines with desirable traits, the program achieves precise trait introduction through natural recombination, avoiding the need for complex direct genetic engineering while maintaining precision through selective breeding

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11700811B2Wheat variety 6PWGL11B
Publication Date: 2023.07.18 PIONEER HI BREED INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

A wheat variety designated 6PWGL11B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PWGL11B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PWGL11B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PWGL11B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety 6PWGL11B are disclosed. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 6PWGL11B and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided.