Corn Variety CV283015 Breeding for Uniform Hybrids

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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 uniformity, as they often result in unpredictable performance due to genetic non-uniformity among hybrid plants.

Innovation Solution

The development of the corn variety CV283015, which includes methods for producing inbred corn plants with specific traits like male sterility, herbicide tolerance, and disease resistance through cytoplasmic or nuclear factors, and genetic transformation techniques, ensuring uniformity and stability in progeny plants.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If cross-pollination is used to combine desirable traits from different plants, then genetic diversity and potential for improved traits increase, but uniformity and predictability of hybrid performance decrease

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

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding process is segmented into distinct phases: creating inbred lines through repeated self-pollination to achieve uniformity, then using those uniform inbreds as parents for controlled cross-pollination. This segmentation allows each phase to optimize for its specific goal - uniformity in inbreds, diversity in hybrids.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Inbred lines are developed through preliminary self-pollination and selection before the actual hybrid crossing. This preliminary action ensures that the parent materials are uniform and genetically stable, which then enables predictable hybrid performance despite the diversity introduced during the crossing phase.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Manufacturing precision

If self-pollination is used to develop inbred plants, then uniformity and genetic stability increase, but genetic diversity and adaptability decrease

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

Solution Approach 1:

Self-pollination effectively copies and replicates the parent plant's genetics over multiple generations, producing uniform inbred lines that are genetically identical copies of the selected parent. This copying process achieves the desired uniformity while maintaining the genetic integrity of the selected traits.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Reliability

If multiple generations of breeding are performed to achieve uniformity, then homozygosity and genetic stability increase, but time required for breed development increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegenetic stabilityVSAvoidbreeding time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding process employs continuous self-pollination and selection over multiple generations (typically 4-6 generations) to progressively increase homozygosity. This continuous action ensures that genetic stability is achieved through cumulative effect, with each generation building upon the previous one to reach the desired level of uniformity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS8003862B2Plants and seeds of corn variety CV283015
Publication Date: 2011.08.23 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV283015. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV283015, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV283015 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 CV283015 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 CV283015.