Hybrid Tomato CLX37935 Marker-Assisted Breeding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current tomato breeding techniques face challenges in developing stable, high-yielding tomato hybrids with improved fruit quality, appearance, and agronomic traits, as existing methods struggle to consistently combine desirable genetic traits effectively.
Innovation Solution
The development of a novel hybrid tomato plant, designated CLX37935, along with methods for its propagation, breeding, and trait introduction using techniques such as backcrossing and New Breeding Techniques, such as CRISPR/Cas, to create plants with desired characteristics like disease resistance, drought tolerance, and enhanced nutritional quality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional breeding techniques are used to develop tomato hybrids, then fruit yield can be improved, but consistency in combining desirable genetic traits deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs marker-assisted selection where DNA markers provide feedback on the genetic composition of breeding plants. This allows breeders to monitor and select for specific desirable traits with high precision, ensuring consistent combination of genetic traits across generations while maintaining high fruit yield potential.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces conventional phenotypic selection (visual/mechanical assessment of traits) with molecular marker-based genotypic selection. This substitution enables more reliable and consistent identification and combination of desirable genetic traits, overcoming the limitations of traditional breeding methods.
2Manufacturing precision
If multiple desirable traits are combined in tomato breeding, then fruit quality can be improved, but breeding complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex breeding process into manageable components by using specific DNA markers for each desirable trait. This allows independent selection and combination of multiple traits (e.g., fruit quality, disease resistance, yield) through marker-assisted selection, reducing the overall complexity of breeding for multiple traits simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent develops a universal marker-assisted selection system that can simultaneously track and select for multiple different desirable traits using a standardized molecular marker approach. This multi-functional system handles various traits (quality, resistance, yield) through a single integrated breeding methodology, reducing complexity compared to separate breeding programs for each trait.
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AI summary
A novel hybrid tomato plant, designated CLX37935 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of tomato hybrid CLX37935, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid tomato CLX37935, and to methods for producing a tomato plant by crossing the hybrid tomato CLX37935 with itself or another tomato plant. The invention further relates to methods for producing a tomato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other tomato plants derived from the hybrid tomato plant CLX37935.