Hybrid Corn CH832402 Breeding Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current 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 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 CH832402, which includes genetic loci for traits like male sterility, herbicide resistance, and disease resistance, utilizing cytoplasmic-male sterility and transgenes integrated at specific chromosomal locations, along with tissue culture methods 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 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 lines 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 crossing. This preliminary action ensures that the genetic composition of parents is stable and uniform, which then enables predictable and uniform hybrid performance 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 and adaptability worsen

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

Solution Approach 1:

Self-pollination and selection are applied as preliminary actions to develop standardized inbred parental lines with high genetic uniformity. These uniform parents serve as the foundation for subsequent hybridization, ensuring that the diversity introduced in later stages comes from controlled crossings rather than unpredictable variation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The breeding program segments the population into distinct inbred lines that are genetically uniform within themselves. This segmentation allows each line to be optimized for specific traits while maintaining uniformity, and then combines them through crossing to achieve both uniformity and diversity at different levels of the breeding system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Adaptability or versatility

If traditional breeding methods are used, then trait combination flexibility is improved, but breeding time and complexity worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait combination flexibilityVSAvoidbreeding time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Inbred lines are developed and maintained as pre-characterized genetic resources with known trait compositions. When new trait combinations are needed, breeders can cross these pre-developed lines rather than creating new variations from scratch, significantly reducing the time required to develop new hybrids while maintaining flexibility in trait combination.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS9018443B2Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH832402
Publication Date: 2015.04.28 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH832402. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH832402, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH832402 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 CH832402.