Hybrid Corn CH011192 Cytoplasmic Male Sterility Breeding

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current corn breeding techniques face challenges in developing hybrid varieties that combine desirable traits such as high yield, disease resistance, and uniformity, while maintaining genetic stability and avoiding self-pollination, which limits the efficiency of trait introduction and hybrid seed production.

Innovation Solution

The development of the hybrid corn variety CH011192, which incorporates genetic modifications and cytoplasmic male sterility traits, allows for controlled cross-pollination and introduces heritable traits like herbicide resistance and disease resistance through genetic locus modifications, using techniques like genome editing and transgenic integration, ensuring stable and uniform hybrid production.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Stability of the object's composition

If traditional self-pollination breeding methods are used, then genetic uniformity is maintained, but hybrid vigor and trait diversity are limited

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

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program segments the population into distinct inbred lines through repeated self-pollination and selection, creating genetically uniform parental lines that can be systematically crossed to generate hybrid progeny with combined traits from different segments

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent combines genetically uniform inbred lines through controlled cross-pollination to produce hybrid corn that merges desirable traits from both parental lines, achieving both genetic uniformity within the hybrid population and trait diversity through parental combination

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Adaptability or versatility

If cross-pollination is used to develop hybrids, then trait diversity and hybrid vigor are improved, but genetic stability and uniformity are reduced

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

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary self-pollination and selection to create genetically stable inbred lines before cross-pollination, ensuring that the parental lines have uniform genetics that will produce uniform hybrid progeny, thus maintaining genetic stability while achieving trait diversity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates multiple copies of the same hybrid genotype by crossing identical inbred parental lines, producing a uniform population of hybrid plants that replicate the desired trait combination across the entire population

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Productivity

If male sterility systems are implemented to prevent self-pollination, then hybrid seed production efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvehybrid seed production efficiencyVSAvoidbreeding system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs cytoplasmic male sterility where the plant's own cytoplasmic genes control pollen production, allowing the female parent to automatically prevent self-pollination without external intervention, thus improving hybrid seed production efficiency while managing complexity through biological self-regulation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS11950558B2Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH011192
Publication Date: 2024.04.09 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011192. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011192, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011192 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011192.