GO-BAL-10 Clover Cold Tolerance Yield
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current clover varieties lack improved traits such as high forage yield, cold tolerance, and nitrogen fixation, making them less efficient for forage and nitrogen source applications, especially in challenging environmental conditions.
Innovation Solution
Development of the clover variety GO-BAL-10, which exhibits enhanced cold tolerance, high forage yield, and increased crude protein content, achieved through breeding and genetic techniques that include recurrent selection, backcrossing, and transformation methods to introduce desirable traits like insect resistance and improved nutritional quality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional clover varieties are used, then they can grow in various soils and climates, but they lack improved traits such as high forage yield, cold tolerance, and nitrogen fixation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by selecting and breeding clover plants with specific genetic traits that alter physiological parameters such as cold tolerance thresholds and nitrogen fixation efficiency. The GO-BAL-10 variety exhibits modified genetic parameters that enable superior performance in cold conditions while maintaining high forage yield, directly resolving the contradiction between environmental tolerance and productivity
Solution Approach 2:
The GO-BAL-10 clover variety achieves multi-functionality by simultaneously providing high forage yield, excellent cold tolerance, and effective nitrogen fixation. This single variety performs multiple functions that were previously distributed across different varieties or required supplemental inputs, resolving the contradiction by making one variety universally superior across multiple performance dimensions
2Adaptability or versatility
If conventional clover varieties are used, then they are suitable for pasture and forage applications, but they lack enhanced nutritional quality and insect resistance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies composite materials by creating a clover variety that integrates multiple desirable genetic traits into a unified germplasm. The GO-BAL-10 variety combines enhanced nutritional quality (higher crude protein), insect resistance, and forage productivity into a single composite genetic structure, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and reliability by synthesizing multiple protective and performance-enhancing traits
3Ease of manufacture
If current germplasm is used, then breeding programs can begin with available varieties, but they lack the combination of desirable traits needed for improved forage and nitrogen source applications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-developing and characterizing the GO-BAL-10 variety with confirmed superior traits for forage yield, cold tolerance, and nitrogen fixation before deploying it in breeding programs. This preliminary development phase creates a ready-to-use germplasm foundation that eliminates the need for breeders to start from conventional varieties with limited traits, directly resolving the contradiction between ease of implementation and productivity enhancement
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AI summary
A clover cultivar, designated clover variety GO-BAL-10, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of clover variety GO-BAL-10, to the plants of clover variety GO-BAL-10 and to methods for producing a clover plant by crossing the clover variety GO-BAL-10 with itself or another clover cultivar. This invention also relates to clover cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from clover variety GO-BAL-10, to methods for producing other clover cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from clover variety GO-BAL-10 and to the clover plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid clover seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing clover variety GO-BAL-10 with another clover cultivar.