Hybrid Corn Variety CH010429 for Yield, Resistance, and Uniformity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing corn breeding techniques struggle to combine multiple desirable traits such as yield, disease resistance, and uniformity in a single hybrid variety, limiting the efficiency and effectiveness of corn cultivation.

Innovation Solution

Development of the hybrid corn variety CH010429, which incorporates genetic modifications and cytoplasmically-inherited traits like male sterility, along with specific genetic loci conferring traits like herbicide resistance and disease resistance, achieved through methods like backcrossing and genetic transformation, ensuring uniformity and desirable characteristics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional breeding methods are used to combine multiple desirable traits, then the complexity of the breeding program increases, but the ability to successfully combine all desired traits in a single hybrid variety decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveability to combine multiple desirable traitsVSAvoidbreeding program complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program is divided into separate phases: developing inbred parental lines with specific traits, testing crosses, and selecting superior hybrids. This segmentation allows complex trait combination to be managed through systematic, staged breeding operations rather than attempting to combine all traits simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs universal breeding methods including pedigree selection, recurrent selection, and hybridization techniques that can be applied across different corn varieties and trait combinations. These multi-functional breeding approaches enable the same systematic framework to handle diverse trait combination scenarios.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Productivity

If extensive breeding programs are conducted to develop superior inbred parental plants, then the time required to develop new hybrids increases, but the yield and quality of the resulting hybrids improve

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvehybrid yield and qualityVSAvoidbreeding program duration
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Inbred parental lines are developed and maintained in advance with specific desirable traits before hybridization is attempted. This preliminary development of standardized inbred lines with known characteristics allows for more efficient hybrid selection and reduces the overall time required to develop superior hybrids, as the parental foundation is already established.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The breeding program maintains continuous cycles of crossing, evaluating, and selecting both inbred lines and hybrid combinations. This ongoing, iterative process allows for steady progress in hybrid development without interruption, efficiently utilizing time across multiple generations of breeding to accumulate genetic improvements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS12356928B2Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010429
Publication Date: 2025.07.15 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC

AI summary

According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH010429. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH010429, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH010429 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 CH010429.