Inbred Corn Line BE9513 Restoring Plant Vigor and Yield

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current corn breeding techniques face challenges in developing new inbred corn lines that maintain commercial competitiveness due to decreased vigor over time, requiring the development of improved germplasm with traits like early flowering, fast grain drydown, and high yields.

Innovation Solution

The introduction of the inbred corn line BE9513, which exhibits early flowering, fast grain drydown, and high yields, along with methods for producing and utilizing BE9513-derived plants through self-pollination, sib-pollination, and hybrid production, including seed treatment options for enhanced resistance to stress conditions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Stability of the object's composition

If traditional inbreeding techniques are used to develop new inbred corn lines, then genetic uniformity and homozygosity are achieved, but plant vigor decreases over time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegenetic uniformityVSAvoidplant vigor
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by introducing a specific inbred line BE9513 with optimized genetic parameters that maintain homozygosity while restoring vigor through selective breeding. The inbred line exhibits improved vigor parameters compared to traditional inbreds, achieving a balance between genetic stability and plant strength through controlled parameter modification in the breeding process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Stability of the object's composition

If inbreeding is continued to achieve higher homozygosity, then genetic purity is improved, but yield and performance deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegenetic purityVSAvoidyield
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent resolves this contradiction by introducing inbred line BE9513 with modified genetic parameters that break the traditional trade-off between purity and productivity. Through selective breeding and parameter optimization, the inbred line achieves high genetic purity while simultaneously maintaining high yield potential, eliminating the need to choose between purity and productivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses copying by developing inbred line BE9513 as a superior genetic model that can be replicated and used as a parent line in hybrid production. This copying approach allows the desirable traits of high purity and high yield to be propagated across multiple generations and hybrid combinations, solving the productivity-purity contradiction through genetic replication.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Productivity

If existing inbred lines are used for hybrid production, then commercial competitiveness is maintained, but resistance to insects, weeds, and diseases decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommercial competitivenessVSAvoidresistance to insects, weeds, and diseases
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies composite materials by creating inbred line BE9513 with composite genetic traits that combine multiple resistance characteristics alongside high yield potential. The inbred line integrates diverse genetic components that provide both commercial competitiveness and enhanced reliability through multi-trad resistance to insects, weeds, and diseases.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Data Source

PatentUS7714203B1Inbred corn line BE9513
Publication Date: 2010.05.11 AGRIGENETICS INC

AI summary

An inbred corn line, designated BE9513, the plants and seeds of the inbred corn line BE9513, methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred corn line BE9513 with itself or with another corn plant, and hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line BE9513 with another corn line or plant and to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic corn plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line BE9513, to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line BE9513 and to the inbred corn lines derived by the use of those methods.