Hybrid Corn CH684476 Breeding Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current corn breeding techniques face challenges in developing uniform hybrid varieties with desirable traits such as high yield, disease resistance, and uniform germination due to genetic non-uniformity and unpredictability in cross-pollination, which requires the development of stable inbred plants and specific breeding methods.

Innovation Solution

The development of the hybrid corn variety CH684476, which includes genetic loci for traits like male sterility, herbicide resistance, and disease resistance, utilizing cytoplasmically-inherited traits and genetic transformation techniques to introduce desired characteristics, and a method for producing hybrid seeds by crossing specific parent plants to ensure uniformity and desired traits.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If cross-pollination is used to develop hybrid corn varieties, then genetic diversity and desirable traits can be combined, but genetic non-uniformity and unpredictability occur in the progeny

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegenetic diversityVSAvoidgenetic uniformity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding process is segmented into distinct phases: developing homozygous inbred parent lines through self-pollination, then crossing these standardized parents to produce uniform hybrid progeny. This segmentation allows genetic diversity to be captured in the parent selection phase while ensuring uniformity in the hybrid production phase.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Homozygous inbred parent plants are developed and standardized through multiple generations of self-pollination before the actual hybrid crossing. This preliminary action ensures that the parental genomes are stable and uniform, which guarantees uniformity in the resulting hybrid progeny while still allowing for genetic diversity in the trait combinations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Stability of the object's composition

If self-pollination is used to develop inbred plants, then genetic uniformity and stability are achieved, but genetic diversity and trait combination are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegenetic uniformityVSAvoidgenetic diversity
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program segments the work into developing multiple distinct inbred lines through self-pollination, each with stable genetics. These standardized inbreds are then crossed in systematic combinations to achieve genetic diversity in the hybrid progeny, while maintaining uniformity within each hybrid population.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Multiple homozygous inbred lines with different genetic backgrounds are crossed together to combine desirable traits from each parent. This merging of standardized genetic lines achieves both genetic uniformity in the hybrid progeny and genetic diversity in the trait combinations available across different hybrid varieties.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Adaptability or versatility

If traditional breeding methods are used to develop hybrid varieties, then genetic traits can be combined, but the process is time-consuming and productivity is low

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait combinationVSAvoidbreeding speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple inbred parent lines are developed and standardized in advance through self-pollination. Once these parental lines are established with stable genetics and desired traits, they can be crossed systematically to produce hybrids, significantly accelerating the breeding process compared to developing new varieties from scratch each time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

A core set of homozygous inbred lines is developed that can serve as universal parents for multiple different hybrid crosses. These standardized inbreds can be combined with different partner lines to produce various hybrid varieties, making the breeding program more efficient and productive while achieving diverse trait combinations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS7737347B2Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH684476
Publication Date: 2010.06.15 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH684476. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH684476, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH684476 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH684476.