Corn Variety CV554829 Breeding via Segmentation and Preliminary Action

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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 CV554829, 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 physiological and morphological characteristics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If cross-pollination is used to combine genetic traits, then genetic diversity and trait combination are improved, but genetic uniformity and predictability 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 breeding population into distinct inbred lines through repeated self-pollination, creating genetically uniform segments that can be precisely controlled and combined in predictable hybrid crosses

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Inbred lines are developed through preliminary self-pollination and selection before being combined in hybrid crosses, ensuring genetic uniformity is established in advance to guarantee predictable hybrid performance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Stability of the object's composition

If self-pollination is used to develop inbred lines, then genetic uniformity is 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 develop genetically uniform inbred lines, which are then combined in controlled hybrid crosses to restore genetic diversity while maintaining uniformity within each parental line

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Inbred lines serve as intermediaries that bridge genetic uniformity and diversity - they are created through self-pollination for uniformity, then used as parental components in hybrid crosses that combine diverse traits in a uniform, predictable manner

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Productivity

If multiple breeding generations are advanced to combine traits, then trait combination and yield are improved, but breeding time and development duration deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveyieldVSAvoidbreeding time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Parental inbred lines are developed in advance with specific desired traits, allowing the hybrid combination and yield improvement to be achieved in a single generation rather than requiring multiple generations of selection

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The breeding process is segmented into independent phases: developing uniform parental lines with specific traits, then combining them in hybrid crosses, which accelerates the overall breeding cycle compared to traditional multi-generational selection

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS9125364B2Plants and seeds of corn variety CV554829
Publication Date: 2015.09.08 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV554829. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV554829, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV554829 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 CV554829 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 CV554829.