Inbred Corn Variety CV009014 for Uniform Hybrid Seed Production

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current corn breeding techniques face challenges in developing uniform corn hybrids with desirable traits such as high yield, disease resistance, and uniform germination, as they often result in non-uniform and unpredictable performance due to genetic differences in cross-pollinated plants.

Innovation Solution

The development of the corn variety CV009014, which is an inbred plant with specific morphological and physiological characteristics, including the option for cytoplasmic male sterility, and the use of genetic loci that confer traits like herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, and modified metabolism, along with tissue culture methods to regenerate plants with consistent traits.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If cross-pollination is used to develop corn hybrids, then genetic diversity and trait combination are improved, but uniformity and predictability of performance deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegenetic diversityVSAvoiduniformity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding process is segmented into distinct phases: first developing homozygous inbred lines through self-pollination to ensure uniformity, then crossing these standardized lines to introduce genetic diversity. This segmentation allows each phase to optimize for its specific goal without compromising the other.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Homozygous inbred lines are developed in advance through multiple generations of self-pollination and selection before the actual hybrid cross. This preliminary action ensures that the parental lines are genetically uniform and stable, providing a consistent foundation for subsequent hybridization that will introduce diversity while maintaining predictability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Manufacturing precision

If self-pollination is used to develop homozygous inbred plants, then uniformity and genetic stability are improved, but genetic diversity and adaptability deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveuniformityVSAvoidgenetic diversity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The invention merges two previously separate breeding approaches (self-pollination for uniformity and cross-pollination for diversity) into a unified hybrid breeding system. By combining homozygous inbred lines through controlled cross-pollination, the system achieves both uniformity within lines and genetic diversity between lines, resolving the contradiction between these opposing goals.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Adaptability or versatility

If traditional breeding methods are used to combine desirable traits, then trait combination potential is improved, but performance predictability and uniformity deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait combinationVSAvoidperformance predictability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The invention changes the genetic parameter state by developing lines to complete homozygosity (fixed allele frequencies) before crossing. This parameter change ensures that parental lines have stable, predictable genetic compositions, making the outcomes of their crosses more predictable while still allowing for diverse trait combinations through selective crossing of different homozygous lines.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS9480230B2Plants and seeds of corn variety CV009014
Publication Date: 2016.11.01 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV009014. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV009014, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV009014 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV009014 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV009014.