Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010472

Douglas Eudy, Affton, MO (US); Gregory J. Holland, Troy, OH (US); Khusi R. Tiwari, Madison, MS (US); Maria Mateos-Hernandez, Taylorville, IL (US); Samuel Prather, Williamsburg, IA (US); Sandeep Bhatnagar, Evansville, IN (US); Sarah McNeil, Manhattan, KS (US)

USPTO: us-12628765 · published 2026-05-19 · patents · A01H 6/4684· A01H 1/00· A01H 5/10

Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010472

Sandeep Bhatnagar, Evansville, IN (US) , Douglas Eudy, Affton, MO (US) , Gregory J. Holland, Troy, OH (US) , Maria Mateos-Hernandez, Taylorville, IL (US) , Sarah McNeil, Manhattan, KS (US) , Samuel Prather, Williamsburg, IA (US) , Khusi R. Tiwari, Madison, MS (US) This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-05-21 07:02 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification patents A01H 6/4684A01H 1/00A01H 5/10

keywords hybrid cornCH010472plant varietyseed depositcorn breedingCV638143CV940176

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The pith

A hybrid corn seed designated CH010472 is produced by crossing plant varieties CV638143 and CV940176.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper establishes a specific hybrid corn variety through the controlled cross of two named parent lines. Representative seeds of each parent are deposited in a public collection under accession numbers that allow others to obtain and verify the material. This deposit-based definition fixes the identity of the hybrid so that it can be reproduced, protected, and used consistently in agriculture. A sympathetic reader sees the claim as a practical way to introduce and legally secure a repeatable corn genotype with whatever agronomic traits the cross delivers.

Core claim

The paper claims a seed of hybrid corn variety CH010472 produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV638143 with a second plant of variety CV940176, with representative seeds of the parent varieties deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306098 and NCMA Accession No. 202206056, respectively.

What carries the argument

The hybrid seed obtained by crossing the two deposited parent lines, which fixes the genetic identity of CH010472 through the deposited accessions.

If this is right

Seed companies can reproduce CH010472 on demand by crossing the two deposited parent lines.
Growers obtain a consistent, repeatable corn hybrid whose performance is tied to the deposited accessions.
The variety can be used in further breeding or commercial seed production while maintaining the defined parentage.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

If the hybrid shows superior yield or stress tolerance, the deposit system provides a transparent route for others to test and compare it against existing varieties.
The same deposit-and-cross method could be applied to generate and protect additional hybrids from the same or related parent pools.
Public access to the deposited parents allows independent verification of uniformity and stability claims over multiple growing seasons.

Load-bearing premise

The two parent lines remain genetically stable and distinct, and the deposited seed samples accurately represent those lines and reliably produce the claimed hybrid.

What would settle it

Genetic or phenotypic tests on plants grown from the deposited parent seeds showing that their cross fails to produce seed matching the CH010472 description or that the parents are not distinct from each other.

read the original abstract

1 . A seed of hybrid corn variety CH010472, produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV638143 with a second plant of variety CV940176, wherein representative seeds of said varieties CV638143 and CV940176 are deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306098 and NCMA Accession No. 202206056, respectively.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

This is a routine plant-variety patent that registers one new corn hybrid by naming two inbred parents and citing two seed deposits; nothing else is shown.

read the letter

The document simply states that hybrid CH010472 comes from crossing CV638143 with CV940176 and that representative seed of each parent has been deposited at NCMA under the listed accession numbers. That specific combination and designation is new in the narrow sense that it has not appeared in the cited literature before. The legal claim is therefore formally complete for its purpose once the deposits are verified by the depository. No performance data, morphological descriptors, molecular markers, or yield trials are supplied, which is normal for this type of filing but leaves the actual agronomic value unshown. The central assumption is that the deposited seed faithfully represents stable, distinct inbreds that will reliably produce a uniform hybrid; if either accession is mislabeled or heterogeneous the claim collapses, but that is a factual question for the examiner or a subsequent infringement case rather than a scientific one. There is no derivation, no statistical test, and no engagement with prior art beyond the minimal legal requirement. Readers looking for new breeding methods, genetic insight, or comparative data will find none. The piece is useful only to someone who needs the precise varietal designation and deposit numbers for commercial or regulatory tracking. It does not rise to the level of a research contribution that would benefit from scientific peer review.

Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript consists of a single claim defining hybrid corn variety CH010472 as the seed produced by crossing inbred parent lines CV638143 (NCMA Accession No. 202306098) and CV940176 (NCMA Accession No. 202206056). No additional description, data, or analysis is supplied.

Significance. If the deposited accessions prove to be genetically stable, distinct inbreds whose cross yields a uniform and stable hybrid distinct from existing varieties, the claim would support plant-variety protection. In the absence of any supporting phenotypic, molecular, or performance data, however, the work adds no verifiable scientific knowledge to the literature on maize breeding.

major comments (1)

Claim 1: The definition of CH010472 rests entirely on parentage plus two seed deposits, yet the manuscript supplies no morphological descriptors, molecular markers, or uniformity/stability test results to confirm that seed from the cited accessions, when crossed, produces a hybrid meeting the DUS criteria required for variety protection.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for reviewing the manuscript. The submission is a patent claim whose enablement rests on the deposited inbred accessions rather than on extensive phenotypic or molecular datasets. We address the single major comment below.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: Claim 1: The definition of CH010472 rests entirely on parentage plus two seed deposits, yet the manuscript supplies no morphological descriptors, molecular markers, or uniformity/stability test results to confirm that seed from the cited accessions, when crossed, produces a hybrid meeting the DUS criteria required for variety protection.

Authors: The claim follows the standard format for a plant patent or plant-variety-protection application in which enablement is provided by the deposited seeds of the parental inbreds (NCMA accessions 202306098 and 202206056). Under U.S. patent practice and UPOV guidelines, the physical deposits themselves constitute the required disclosure of the specific genotypes; additional morphological or molecular data are not mandated in the claim language when the accessions are publicly available for verification. We therefore maintain that the present wording is both complete and enforceable. revision: no

Circularity Check

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No derivation chain present; claim is direct definitional statement by parentage and deposit

full rationale

The document is a plant-variety patent whose sole claim defines CH010472 by the act of crossing two named inbreds whose representative seeds are deposited under stated accession numbers. No equations, fitted parameters, predictions, ansatzes, or uniqueness theorems appear. The definition is therefore not derived from any prior result within the paper and cannot reduce to itself by construction. This is the normal, non-circular case for a legal variety deposit claim.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The claim rests on the existence and viability of two deposited inbred lines and on the legal convention that a hybrid seed produced by their cross constitutes a protectable variety. No free parameters, invented physical entities, or additional axioms are introduced.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Deposited seed samples accurately represent the named varieties and remain genetically stable.
Required for the cross to reproducibly yield the claimed hybrid.

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A seed of hybrid corn variety CH010472, produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV638143 with a second plant of variety CV940176, wherein representative seeds of said varieties CV638143 and CV940176 are deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306098 and NCMA Accession No. 202206056, respectively.

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