Hybrid Corn CH950260 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 CH950260, which includes genetic loci for traits like male sterility, herbicide resistance, and disease resistance, utilizing cytoplasmic-male sterility and genetic transformation techniques to introduce desired traits, and 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 in corn breeding, 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 uniform inbred lines through self-pollination (achieving genetic homogeneity), then crossing these stabilized inbreds to introduce diversity. This segmentation allows each phase to optimize for its specific goal without compromising the other.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Inbred lines are developed and stabilized through multiple generations of self-pollination before crossing. This preliminary action creates genetically uniform parental lines, ensuring that subsequent cross-pollination produces predictable and uniform hybrid offspring with desired traits.

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 time to achieve stable varieties increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegenetic uniformityVSAvoidbreeding time
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Once uniform inbred lines are developed through self-pollination, they serve as reusable parental copies. These standardized inbred lines can be crossed repeatedly to produce uniform hybrid seed, eliminating the need to re-develop the same genetic combinations and significantly reducing breeding time for subsequent varieties.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Reliability

If traditional breeding methods are used, then variety development is achieved, but productivity and yield improvement are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevariety stabilityVSAvoidyield
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The hybrid corn variety combines genetic material from two distinct inbred lines, creating a composite genetic structure. This composite approach leverages heterosis (hybrid vigor) to achieve superior yield and productivity while maintaining uniformity, as both parental inbreds contribute complementary desirable traits.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

4Adaptability or versatility

If multiple desirable traits are combined in breeding, then adaptability is improved, but breeding complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait combinationVSAvoidbreeding process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple desirable traits from different inbred lines are merged into a single hybrid variety through controlled cross-pollination. This combining approach allows accumulation of complementary traits (yield, disease resistance, stress tolerance) in one uniform population, simplifying the breeding process compared to developing multiple separate varieties.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS9686955B1Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH950260
Publication Date: 2017.06.27 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH950260. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH950260, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH950260 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 CH950260.