Hybrid Corn CH952875 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 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 CH952875, which includes genetic loci for traits like male sterility, herbicide resistance, and disease resistance, using cytoplasmically-inherited traits and genetic transformation techniques to introduce desired characteristics, and a method for producing hybrid seeds through controlled cross-pollination to prevent self-pollination.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If cross-pollination is used to develop corn hybrids, then genetic diversity and desirable traits can be combined, but genetic non-uniformity and unpredictability occur in the progeny

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 stages: developing homozygous inbred parent lines through self-pollination, then crossing these standardized parents to produce uniform hybrid progeny. This segmentation allows genetic diversity to be captured in the parental selection phase while ensuring uniformity in the commercial hybrid phase.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Homozygous inbred parent plants are developed and standardized through multiple generations of self-pollination and selection before the actual hybrid cross. This preliminary action ensures that the parental genetic composition is stable and uniform, which then guarantees uniformity in the hybrid progeny.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Stability of the object's composition

If self-pollination is used to develop inbred lines, then genetic uniformity and stability are achieved, but time and generations required for breeding increase

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

Solution Approach 1:

Self-pollination is utilized to allow plants to fertilize themselves, automatically producing homozygous inbred lines without requiring manual intervention for each pollination event. This self-service mechanism accelerates the development of uniform parental lines compared to manual cross-pollination methods.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Productivity

If traditional breeding methods are used to develop corn hybrids, then commercial breeding programs can operate, but genetic unpredictability and non-uniformity reduce performance reliability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommercial breeding capabilityVSAvoidperformance predictability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding approach changes the genetic parameter state by first creating homozygous inbred parents (high genetic uniformity) and then producing heterozygous hybrid progeny (high performance uniformity). This parameter transformation ensures that commercial hybrids exhibit consistent, predictable performance across different environments and locations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS9295212B2Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH952875
Publication Date: 2016.03.29 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH952875. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH952875, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH952875 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 CH952875.