Corn Variety CV744569 Breeding for Genetic Uniformity

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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 CV744569, which includes a cytoplasmic or nuclear factor for male sterility and specific genetic loci conferring traits like herbicide tolerance and disease resistance, along with a process for producing inbred and hybrid seeds, ensures a homogeneous population and controlled pollination to achieve desired characteristics.

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 trait combination are improved, but genetic non-uniformity and performance predictability deteriorate

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

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding process is segmented into distinct phases: creating homozygous inbred lines through repeated self-pollination, then crossing these inbreds to produce uniform F1 hybrids. This segmentation allows control over genetic composition at different stages, ensuring uniformity in the final hybrid product while maintaining trait diversity from the inbred parents.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Homozygous inbred plants are developed through preliminary self-pollination and selection before the actual crossing step. This preliminary action ensures that the parental lines are genetically uniform and stable, which then produces predictable and uniform F1 hybrid progeny when crossed, eliminating the non-uniformity that would result from crossing variable populations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Stability of the object's composition

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

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

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple homozygous inbred lines, each fixed for different desirable traits through self-pollination, are merged through controlled crossing to produce F1 hybrids. This merging combines the genetic uniformity of each inbred line with the trait diversity of the parent population, creating uniform hybrids that express a combination of parental traits.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

Different regions of the breeding program serve different functions: self-pollination and selection are applied locally to develop uniform inbred lines with specific traits, while crossing is applied to combine these localized trait developments into uniform F1 hybrids with enhanced overall adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Reliability

If recurrent selection is used to develop inbred plants, then desired phenotypes are improved, but breeding time and complexity deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesired phenotypeVSAvoidbreeding time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program performs preliminary self-pollination and selection over multiple generations to establish homozygous inbred lines with desired traits before the final crossing step. This preliminary action consolidates the desired phenotypes into stable genetic backgrounds, reducing the time needed for subsequent selection and evaluation phases.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The breeding program uses replicated selection cycles where multiple inbred lines are developed and evaluated in parallel, and successful lines are replicated and crossed to produce F1 hybrids. This copying approach allows simultaneous development of multiple phenotypic variants, reducing overall breeding time while maintaining phenotypic reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS10104856B1Plants and seeds of corn variety CV744569
Publication Date: 2018.10.23 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV744569. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV744569, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV744569 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 CV744569 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 CV744569.