Cotton Variety P07X.8212.RF Breeding

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Solution Overview

Problem

Cotton breeding is a slow and costly process that requires expertise and involves numerous steps, including selection of parent plants, inbreeding, and crossing to produce new varieties and hybrid cotton plants, with existing parent varieties losing commercial competitiveness over time.

Innovation Solution

Development of the cotton inbred variety P07X.8212.RF, which possesses broad adaptation, excellent yield stability, desirable fiber properties, and tolerance to glyphosate herbicide and Fusarium oxysporum race 4, along with methods for producing and utilizing this variety in breeding programs to enhance yield and disease resistance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If traditional cotton breeding methods are used, then new varieties can be developed, but the process is slow and costly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebreeding speedVSAvoidbreeding cycle time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-selecting and pre-characterizing parent lines with desirable traits (yield stability, disease resistance, fiber quality) before initiating the breeding program. This allows the breeding process to start with a ready-made foundation of genetically superior parents, reducing the overall time required to develop new varieties compared to traditional methods where parents are selected during the breeding process itself.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If existing parent varieties are used, then breeding can proceed, but they lose commercial competitiveness over time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveyield stabilityVSAvoidcommercial competitiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by systematically improving and updating parent variety characteristics over time. The breeding program continuously selects for enhanced parameters such as increased yield stability, improved disease resistance (including tolerance to Fusarium oxysporum race 4), and optimized fiber quality attributes. This dynamic improvement ensures that parent varieties remain commercially competitive while maintaining reliable yield performance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Manufacturing precision

If inbreeding is practiced to develop new varieties, then homozygous plants are obtained, but vigor decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovehomozygosityVSAvoidplant vigor
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies the intermediary principle by using carefully selected parent lines that serve as genetic mediators. These parent lines are chosen to carry specific desirable traits (such as disease resistance and yield stability) that can be transmitted through controlled crosses. By using these intermediary parent varieties with known superior characteristics, the breeding program achieves homozygosity in the offspring while preserving or enhancing vigor through the selective combination of beneficial alleles from the parent lines.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS9380752B2Cotton variety P07X.8212.RF
Publication Date: 2016.07.05 PIONEER HI BREED INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

A cotton variety, designated P07X.8212.RF, the plants and seeds of the cotton variety P07X.8212.RF, methods for producing a cotton plant, either varietal or hybrid, produced by crossing the cotton variety P07X.8212.RF with itself or with another cotton plant, and hybrid cotton seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety P07X.8212.RF with another cotton variety or plant and to methods for producing a cotton plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic cotton plants produced by that method. This disclosure also relates to cotton varieties derived from cotton variety P07X.8212.RF, to methods for producing other cotton varieties derived from cotton variety P07X.8212.RF, and to the varieties derived by the use of those methods.