Inbred Corn Line OOA20LY Breeding for Yield and Stress Resistance

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Solution Overview

Problem

The development of new inbred corn lines is a slow and costly process that requires expertise, and existing inbred parent corn lines lose commercial competitiveness over time, necessitating the need for improved germplasm with enhanced yield, disease resistance, and adaptability.

Innovation Solution

The introduction of the OOA20LY inbred corn line, which is a yellow dent inbred corn seed and plant with specific physiological and morphological characteristics, along with methods for producing and treating seeds to enhance resistance to stress conditions, and the use of breeding techniques such as pedigree breeding, backcrossing, haploid breeding, and mutation breeding to develop new inbred and hybrid corn plants.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Stability of the object's composition

If traditional inbreeding techniques are used to develop new inbred corn lines, then genetic uniformity is achieved, but the process is slow and costly

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

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by using mutation breeding to pre-create genetic variation in controlled conditions before proceeding with traditional inbreeding. This preliminary mutation step accelerates the overall breeding process by generating desirable traits earlier, reducing the total time required to develop new inbred lines while maintaining genetic uniformity through subsequent self-pollination and selection

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of manufacture

If existing inbred parent corn lines are used repeatedly, then production costs are reduced, but they lose commercial competitiveness over time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduction costVSAvoidcommercial competitiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by systematically varying breeding parameters including mutation agents, treatment conditions, and selection criteria to continuously improve inbred lines. This approach allows breeders to refresh and enhance existing lines with new traits such as disease resistance and yield improvement, maintaining commercial competitiveness while managing production costs through targeted rather than complete redevelopment

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Stability of the object's composition

If self-pollination is used to maintain inbred lines, then genetic purity is preserved, but vigor decreases with additional inbreeding

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegenetic purityVSAvoidplant vigor
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies continuity of useful action by implementing ongoing mutation breeding programs that continuously introduce beneficial genetic variation into inbred lines. This continuous input of new genetic material through controlled mutations counteracts the accumulating negative effects of inbreeding, allowing maintenance of genetic purity through self-pollination while preserving or even enhancing plant vigor through periodic infusion of beneficial traits

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS9961850B1Inbred corn line OOA2OLY
Publication Date: 2018.05.08 AGRIGENETICS INC

AI summary

An inbred corn line, designated OOA20LY, the plants and seeds of the inbred corn line OOA20LY, methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred corn line OOA20LY with itself or with another corn plant, and hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line OOA20LY with another corn line or plant and to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic corn plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line OOA20LY, to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line OOA20LY and to the inbred corn lines derived by the use of those methods.