Hybrid Tomato Breeding for Yield and Genetic Stability

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing tomato breeding methods fail to produce stable, high-yielding hybrids with superior fruit quality and agronomic traits consistently.

Innovation Solution

Development of a hybrid tomato plant designated INTUITIVO, which includes methods for producing and propagating plants and seeds with specific physiological and morphological characteristics, and introducing desired traits through techniques like backcrossing and genome editing to enhance yield, disease resistance, and fruit quality.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If conventional tomato breeding methods are used, then fruit yield and quality can be improved, but genetic stability and consistency across generations cannot be maintained

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefruit yieldVSAvoidgenetic stability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by developing and stabilizing parental lines before hybridization. The parental lines are carefully selected and bred to possess desired traits and genetic stability, ensuring that the resulting hybrid maintains consistency across generations while achieving high yield and quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent utilizes parameter changes by modifying specific genetic parameters through controlled breeding and selection. By adjusting genetic parameters in parental lines and selecting for desirable traits, the hybrid achieves improved fruit yield and quality while maintaining genetic stability through controlled inheritance patterns.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If multiple traits are introduced through backcrossing and genome editing, then disease resistance and nutritional content improve, but plant complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisease resistanceVSAvoidplant complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by introducing specific desirable traits (disease resistance, nutritional content) at particular genetic loci through backcrossing and genome editing, while maintaining the overall simplicity and uniformity of the plant's other characteristics. This targeted approach improves reliability without unnecessarily increasing overall plant complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses parameter changes by modifying specific genetic parameters related to disease resistance and nutritional content through controlled breeding and genome editing techniques. These targeted parameter changes improve reliability while minimizing increases in overall plant complexity by focusing modifications on specific traits rather than comprehensive restructuring.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12532858B2Hybrid tomato plant named INTUITIVO
Publication Date: 2026.01.27 HM CLAUSE

AI summary

A novel hybrid tomato plant, designated INTUITIVO is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of hybrid tomato designated INTUITIVO, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid tomato designated INTUITIVO, and to methods for producing a tomato plant by crossing the hybrid tomato INTUITIVO with itself or another tomato plant.