Hybrid Corn CH174075 Breeding Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Corn breeding techniques face challenges in developing uniform hybrid varieties with desirable traits such as high yield, disease resistance, and uniform germination due to genetic non-uniformity in cross-pollinated plants, which requires the development of stable inbred plants and specific breeding methods to combine desirable characteristics.

Innovation Solution

The development of the hybrid corn variety CH174075, which includes genetic loci for traits like male sterility, herbicide resistance, and disease resistance, utilizing cytoplasmically-inherited traits and transgenes integrated through genetic transformation techniques, along with tissue cultures capable of regenerating plants with specific physiological and morphological characteristics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If cross-pollination is used to develop corn hybrids, then genetic diversity and trait combination are improved, but genetic uniformity and predictability of performance deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegenetic diversityVSAvoidgenetic uniformity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding process is segmented into distinct phases: first developing uniform inbred parental lines through self-pollination, then crossing these standardized parents to produce hybrid progeny. This segmentation allows genetic diversity to be introduced only at the controlled crossing stage while maintaining uniformity within each phase.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Inbred parental lines are developed and standardized through multiple generations of self-pollination and selection before the actual hybrid crossing. This preliminary action ensures that both parents have uniform, predictable genetic backgrounds, which guarantees uniform hybrid performance when crossed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Stability of the object's composition

If inbred plants are developed through self-pollination and selection, then genetic uniformity and stability are improved, but the complexity of the breeding process increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegenetic stabilityVSAvoidbreeding process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Self-pollination is utilized as a natural mechanism to achieve genetic uniformity in inbred lines. The plant's own pollen fertilizes its own ovules, automatically producing genetically uniform progeny without requiring external intervention for each pollination event, thereby simplifying the breeding process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Productivity

If multiple desirable traits are combined in a single hybrid variety, then agricultural productivity and resistance are improved, but the difficulty of breeding and selection increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveagricultural productivityVSAvoidbreeding difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple desirable traits from different inbred parental lines are merged into a single hybrid variety through controlled crossing. Each parent contributes specific traits (e.g., disease resistance, yield potential, stress tolerance), and the hybrid combines all these traits simultaneously, achieving superior overall performance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS8188351B2Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH174075
Publication Date: 2012.05.29 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH174075. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH174075, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH174075 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 CH174075.