Corn Variety CV683810 Breeding for Genetic Uniformity

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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 CV683810, which includes methods for producing inbred corn plants with specific traits like male sterility, herbicide tolerance, and disease resistance, using techniques such as backcrossing and genetic transformation to introduce desired loci, ensuring genetic stability and uniformity.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional cross-pollination breeding methods are used to develop corn hybrids, then genetic diversity is increased, but uniformity among hybrid plants decreases leading to unpredictable performance

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegenetic diversityVSAvoiduniformity among hybrid plants
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 inbreds to produce hybrids. This segmentation allows genetic diversity to be introduced only at the crossing stage while maintaining uniformity within each parental line, resolving the contradiction between diversity and uniformity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Homozygous inbred parental lines are developed in advance through multiple generations of self-pollination and selection before the hybrid crossing stage. This preliminary action ensures that both parents have uniform, stable genotypes, which guarantees uniformity in the resulting hybrid population while still allowing for genetic diversity through the combination of different inbred lines.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Manufacturing precision

If self-pollination is used to develop homozygous inbred lines, then uniformity and predictability are improved, but genetic diversity decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuniformity of inbred linesVSAvoidgenetic diversity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

Self-pollination is performed as a preliminary action over multiple generations to establish homozygous inbred lines with uniform genotypes. Once these uniform parental lines are created, they are then crossed with other diverse inbred lines to introduce genetic diversity in the hybrid stage, thus resolving the contradiction between uniformity during inbreeding and diversity in the final hybrid.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of attempting to maintain diversity throughout the entire breeding process, the method inverts the approach by first creating uniform homozygous lines through selfing, then introducing diversity through crossing. This inversion allows the breeder to control diversity at the parental selection stage while ensuring uniformity within each line, achieving both goals at different stages.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

3Manufacturing precision

If multiple breeding generations are performed to achieve homozygosity, then uniformity of the final hybrid is improved, but breeding time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuniformity of hybrid populationVSAvoidbreeding cycle duration
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program is segmented into parallel development streams where multiple inbred lines are developed simultaneously through self-pollination. This segmentation allows the time required for homozygosity achievement to be distributed across multiple concurrent lines rather than sequential development, reducing the overall time to produce uniform hybrids while maintaining the necessary generations for homozygosity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS8076551B2Plants and seeds of corn variety CV683810
Publication Date: 2011.12.13 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV683810. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV683810, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV683810 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 CV683810 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 CV683810.