Stable Wheat Variety Breeding for Multi-Trait Adaptability

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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, limiting their adaptability and commercial utility.

Innovation Solution

Development of the wheat variety 6PTLT42B, which is homozygous and stable, and can be bred or genetically modified to incorporate traits like herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and altered nutritional content through methods such as backcrossing and genetic transformation, using molecular markers for selection and double haploid production.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional wheat breeding methods are used to combine multiple desirable traits, then the complexity of the breeding program increases, but the ability to achieve comprehensive trait combinations is limited

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

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program is segmented into distinct phases: initial cross-breeding to combine traits from multiple parents, followed by systematic selection and evaluation of progeny. Molecular markers are used to segment the selection process, allowing independent assessment of specific traits (disease resistance, yield, quality) rather than evaluating all traits simultaneously in complex multi-parent crosses.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Molecular marker analysis is performed preliminarily on breeding progeny to identify individuals carrying desired trait combinations before field trials. This preliminary genetic screening allows breeders to select only those plants with the target trait组合, reducing the complexity of subsequent phenotypic evaluation and accelerating the breeding process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Stability of the object's composition

If extensive phenotypic evaluation and selection is performed to ensure trait stability, then the uniformity and stability of the variety is improved, but the time required for variety development increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevariety uniformity and stabilityVSAvoidvariety development time
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Molecular marker-based genetic analysis is conducted preliminarily on breeding progeny to predict trait inheritance patterns and identify stable trait combinations. This preliminary genetic assessment allows breeders to select plants with high probability of trait stability, reducing the number of generations required for phenotypic confirmation and accelerating variety release while maintaining stability standards.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The breeding program implements feedback loops where molecular marker data from each generation informs selection decisions for the next generation. This continuous feedback mechanism allows real-time adjustment of breeding strategies, ensuring that only progeny with stable inheritance patterns of target traits advance to subsequent evaluation stages, thereby reducing overall development time while maintaining uniformity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12514187B2Wheat variety 6PTLT42B
Publication Date: 2026.01.06 PIONEER HI BREED INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

A wheat variety designated 6PTLT42B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PTLT42B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PTLT42B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PTLT42B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety 6PTLT42B are disclosed. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 6PTLT42B and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided.