Hybrid Corn CH827175 Breeding Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Corn breeding aims to combine desirable traits like higher yield, disease resistance, and uniformity, but existing methods struggle to produce stable, uniform hybrid plants due to genetic non-uniformity and unpredictable performance from cross-pollination between heterozygous plants.

Innovation Solution

The development of the hybrid corn variety CH827175, which includes genetic loci for traits like male sterility, herbicide resistance, and disease resistance, using cytoplasmic-male sterility and transgenes integrated at specific chromosomal locations, along with tissue culture techniques for regenerating plants with consistent physiological and morphological 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 uniformity and performance predictability deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait combinationVSAvoidgenetic 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 stabilized lines to introduce desired traits. This segmentation allows each phase to optimize for its specific goal without compromising the other.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Homozygous inbred parent plants are developed and stabilized through multiple generations of self-pollination before the actual crossing event. This preliminary stabilization ensures that when crossing occurs, the resulting hybrids will exhibit consistent and predictable performance, resolving the contradiction between trait combination and genetic uniformity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Stability of the object's composition

If self-pollination is used to develop uniform inbred lines, then genetic uniformity and stability are improved, but genetic diversity and adaptability deteriorate

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

Solution Approach 1:

The invention merges the benefits of self-pollination (genetic uniformity) and cross-pollination (genetic diversity) into a two-stage breeding system. Inbred lines are first developed through self-pollination to achieve uniformity, then these uniform lines are crossed to introduce diversity and combine desirable traits from different parental lines.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

Self-pollination is performed as a preliminary action to establish homozygous inbred lines with stable genetic composition. Only after this preliminary uniformity is achieved does the process proceed to crossing events that introduce genetic diversity and combine desirable traits, thus resolving the contradiction between uniformity and adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If traditional breeding methods are used to develop hybrid corn, then trait combination potential is improved, but performance predictability and uniformity deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait combination potentialVSAvoidperformance predictability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The invention applies different pollination strategies to different stages of the breeding process: self-pollination is applied locally to the parent line development stage to ensure uniformity, while cross-pollination is applied locally to the hybridization stage to combine traits. This localized application of different methods optimizes both trait combination potential and performance predictability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The development of homozygous inbred parent lines through self-pollination serves as a preliminary action that establishes genetic stability. This preliminary stabilization ensures that subsequent cross-pollination events produce predictable and uniform hybrid performance, directly addressing the reliability issue in traditional breeding methods.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS9072264B2Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH827175
Publication Date: 2015.07.07 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH827175. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH827175, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH827175 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 CH827175.