Hybrid Corn CH457975 Breeding Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current corn breeding techniques face challenges in developing uniform hybrid plants with desirable traits such as high yield, disease resistance, and uniform germination due to genetic non-uniformity and unpredictability in cross-pollination, requiring the development of stable inbred plants and specific breeding methods.

Innovation Solution

The development of the hybrid corn variety CH457975, which includes genetic loci for traits like male sterility, herbicide resistance, and disease resistance, utilizing cytoplasmically-inherited traits and transgenes integrated through genetic transformation, 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 deteriorate

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

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding process is segmented into distinct phases: first developing homozygous inbred lines through self-pollination to ensure genetic uniformity, then crossing these standardized inbreds to introduce controlled genetic diversity. This segmentation allows each phase to optimize for its specific goal without compromising the other.

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 cross. This preliminary action ensures that the genetic composition of parents is uniform and stable, which then enables predictable and uniform hybrid progeny when crossed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Stability of the object's composition

If self-pollination is used to develop inbred lines, then genetic uniformity is improved, but genetic diversity deteriorates

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

Solution Approach 1:

Self-pollination and selection are performed as a preliminary action over multiple generations to establish homozygous inbred lines with uniform genetics. This preliminary uniformity is essential before crossing, as it ensures that the subsequent hybrid will have predictable and uniform performance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

After developing uniform inbred lines through self-pollination, the invention merges genetically diverse inbred lines through cross-pollination. This combining of diverse but uniform parents produces hybrids that exhibit both uniformity (from the standardized inbred parents) and genetic diversity (from the combination of different inbred line genomes).

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS8035010B2Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH457975
Publication Date: 2011.10.11 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH457975. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH457975, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH457975 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 CH457975.