Corn Variety CV448797 Breeding Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Corn breeding aims to combine desirable traits like yield, disease resistance, and uniformity, but existing methods struggle to produce stable inbred plants with predictable performance due to genetic non-uniformity from cross-pollination, leading to unpredictable hybrid traits.

Innovation Solution

The development of the corn variety CV448797, which includes a cytoplasmic or nuclear factor for male sterility to prevent self-pollination, along with specific genetic loci for traits like herbicide tolerance and disease resistance, and the use of tissue cultures to regenerate plants with consistent morphological and physiological characteristics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If cross-pollination is used in corn breeding, then genetic diversity and trait combination are improved, but genetic uniformity and predictability of hybrid traits deteriorate

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

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program segments the population into distinct inbred lines through repeated self-pollination, creating genetically uniform groups that can be systematically crossed. This segmentation allows control over genetic diversity while maintaining uniformity within each line.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Inbred plants are developed through preliminary self-pollination and selection before hybridization. This preliminary action creates homozygous parental lines with stable, predictable genetics that will produce uniform hybrids when crossed.

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 improved, but genetic diversity and adaptability deteriorate

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

Solution Approach 1:

Self-pollination is used as a preliminary action to create homozygous inbred lines with stable, uniform genetics. These inbreds serve as standardized building blocks for subsequent hybridization, ensuring predictability while enabling controlled diversity through crossbreeding.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The breeding program segments the overall genetic pool into multiple distinct inbred lines, each with its own uniform genetic composition. This segmentation allows the program to maintain genetic diversity across lines while ensuring uniformity within each line for predictable hybrid performance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple breeding generations are pursued to combine desirable traits, then trait combination and performance are improved, but breeding time and development duration increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait combinationVSAvoidbreeding time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Inbred lines are developed in advance through preliminary self-pollination and selection, creating standardized genetic materials with desired traits already fixed. This preliminary action reduces the time needed for subsequent hybridization and selection, as the parental lines are already optimized.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The breeding program segments trait combination into separate inbred lines, each optimized for specific traits. By developing specialized inbreds independently and then crossing them, the program achieves comprehensive trait combination more efficiently than attempting to accumulate all traits in a single continuous selection process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS9661821B1Plants and seeds of corn variety CV448797
Publication Date: 2017.05.30 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV448797. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV448797, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV448797 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 CV448797 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 CV448797.