Wheat Variety M14C1030 CRISPR Trait Introduction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current wheat breeding techniques face challenges in combining desirable traits such as high seed yield, disease resistance, drought tolerance, and improved agronomic characteristics in a single wheat variety, while also ensuring genetic stability and adaptability across different growing conditions.

Innovation Solution

The development of the wheat variety M14C1030, which involves genetic modification through transgenic techniques and traditional breeding methods to introduce specific traits like herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and improved yield potential, using methods like CRISPR-Cas system, zinc-finger nucleases, and tissue-specific promoters, while maintaining the variety's morphological and physiological characteristics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional breeding methods are used to combine desirable traits, then genetic stability is maintained, but the ability to introduce new traits such as herbicide resistance and improved yield potential is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveability to introduce new traitsVSAvoidbreeding process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs CRISPR-Cas system as an intermediary tool to facilitate precise genetic modifications. This system acts as a mediator between the desired traits and the wheat genome, enabling the introduction of new characteristics (such as herbicide resistance and improved yield potential) without requiring complex multi-generation breeding processes. The CRISPR-Cas system simplifies the breeding process by directly editing the genome rather than relying on traditional cross-breeding methods.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If multiple breeding steps are implemented to achieve desired traits, then trait combination is improved, but the time required for development increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait combination efficiencyVSAvoidbreeding development time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by using CRISPR-Cas system to pre-modify the wheat genome before traditional breeding steps are completed. This allows desirable traits to be introduced and stabilized in fewer generations, significantly reducing the time required for breeding development while maintaining high productivity in trait combination efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If genetic modification techniques are used to introduce specific traits, then herbicide resistance and disease resistance are improved, but the complexity of the breeding program increases

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

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces complex mechanical breeding processes with molecular biology techniques. Instead of using traditional cross-breeding and selection methods to achieve disease resistance and herbicide resistance, the CRISPR-Cas system directly edits the genome to introduce these traits. This substitution of mechanical breeding processes with molecular tools simplifies the overall breeding program while improving reliability of disease resistance.

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

Data Source

PatentUS11272676B2Wheat variety M14C1030
Publication Date: 2022.03.15 21ST CENTURY GENETICS CORP

AI summary

A wheat variety designated M14C1030, the plants and seeds and plant parts of wheat variety M14C1030, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety M14C1030 with itself or another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety M14C1030 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety M14C1030. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety M14C1030 and wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided.