CH010455 Hybrid Corn Breeding for Uniform Multi-Trait Performance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing corn breeding techniques struggle to combine desirable traits such as yield, disease resistance, and uniformity in a single hybrid variety, often resulting in non-uniform populations and reduced vigor due to homozygosity and heterozygosity issues.

Innovation Solution

Development of the hybrid corn variety CH010455, which incorporates genetic modifications and cytoplasmic traits like male sterility, along with specific morphological and physiological characteristics, using methods like backcrossing and genetic transformation to introduce traits like herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and altered metabolism, while ensuring uniformity and stability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional breeding methods are used to combine desirable traits, then multiple traits can be introduced, but the resulting population becomes non-uniform and vigor is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait combinationVSAvoidpopulation uniformity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding process is segmented into distinct phases: developing uniform inbred parent lines through repeated self-pollination, then crossing these standardized parents to produce hybrid offspring. This segmentation allows each phase to optimize for its specific goal (uniformity in parents, trait combination in hybrids) without compromising the other.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of directly breeding uniform hybrids with multiple traits (which creates non-uniform populations), the method inverts the approach by first creating uniform inbred parent lines and then crossing them. This inversion resolves the contradiction by achieving both uniformity (in the standardized parent lines) and trait combination (in the hybrid crosses).

Inventive Principle:
Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

2Manufacturing precision

If self-pollination is used to create uniform populations, then population uniformity is achieved, but genetic diversity and vigor are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepopulation uniformityVSAvoidcrop vigor
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

Uniform inbred parent lines are created through preliminary self-pollination and selection before the hybridization step. This preliminary action establishes the uniformity and genetic stability needed for consistent hybrid performance, while the subsequent cross-pollination restores vigor through heterosis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The method changes the genetic parameter state by moving from homozygous inbred lines (high uniformity, low vigor) to heterozygous hybrid offspring (maintained uniformity through standardized crosses, restored vigor). The parameter of heterozygosity is strategically manipulated to achieve both uniformity and vigor.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20250212817A1Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety ch010455
Publication Date: 2025.07.03 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

According to the disclosure, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH010455. The disclosure thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of the variety CH010455, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH010455 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The disclosure further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH010455.