Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010476

Christian J. Buffard, Jefferson, CO (US); Douglas Eudy, Affton, MO (US); Maria Mateos-Hernandez, Taylorville, IL (US); Pragya Adhikari, Ankeny, IA (US); Rafael A. Mateo, Sun Prairie, WI (US); Samuel Prather, Williamsburg, IA (US); Sarah McNeil, Manhattan, KS (US)

USPTO: us-12628767 · published 2026-05-19 · patents · A01H 6/4684· A01H 5/10

Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010476

Pragya Adhikari, Ankeny, IA (US) , Christian J. Buffard, Jefferson, CO (US) , Douglas Eudy, Affton, MO (US) , Rafael A. Mateo, Sun Prairie, WI (US) , Maria Mateos-Hernandez, Taylorville, IL (US) , Sarah McNeil, Manhattan, KS (US) , Samuel Prather, Williamsburg, IA (US) This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-05-21 08:01 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification patents A01H 6/4684A01H 5/10

keywords hybrid cornplant varietyseed productioncorn breedingCH010476CV947631CV512858

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The pith

Hybrid corn variety CH010476 is produced by crossing plants of CV947631 with plants of CV512858.

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

The document defines a hybrid corn seed designated CH010476. It arises directly from a cross between two specified parent varieties whose representative seeds have been deposited under accession numbers 202206061 and 202106028. A sympathetic reader would see this as a standard step in protecting a reproducible corn hybrid for commercial seed production. The claim matters because it supplies a concrete, depositable starting point that breeders and farmers can use to grow the same variety repeatedly.

Core claim

Seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010476 are obtained by crossing a first plant of variety CV947631 with a second plant of variety CV512858, with representative seeds of each parent line deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202206061 and NCMA Accession No. 202106028, respectively.

What carries the argument

Controlled crossing of two deposited inbred parent lines to generate a uniform, reproducible hybrid seed lot.

If this is right

Breeders can obtain identical hybrid seed by repeating the same parent cross using the deposited lines.
The resulting plants meet the legal criteria for plant variety protection once distinctness, uniformity, and stability are verified.
Commercial seed production can rely on the two parent lines as the fixed source of the hybrid.
Growers receive a corn variety whose performance characteristics are expected to be consistent from one planting to the next.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

The same deposition method can be applied to other corn hybrids to secure legal protection without revealing proprietary breeding details.
If the hybrid shows region-specific yield advantages, seed companies could target particular growing zones for market introduction.
The approach provides a clear reference point for future genetic studies that compare this hybrid against newer lines.

Load-bearing premise

The cross between the two named parent lines produces a hybrid that remains distinct, uniform, and stable across generations.

What would settle it

Planting multiple generations of seed harvested from CH010476 plants and finding substantial variation in traits such as maturity date, ear height, or disease resistance would falsify the uniformity and stability claim.

read the original abstract

1 . A seed of hybrid corn variety CH010476, produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV947631 with a second plant of variety CV512858, wherein representative seeds of said varieties CV947631 and CV512858 are deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202206061 and NCMA Accession No. 202106028, 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 standard plant-variety patent filing that registers one new corn hybrid cross and its seed deposits; it contains no experiments, data, or scientific claims.

read the letter

The document simply records that hybrid CH010476 comes from crossing CV947631 with CV512858 and lists the two NCMA accession numbers for the parent lines. That specific combination and those deposit numbers are new as a commercial entity, which is the only concrete addition here. The filing meets the minimal legal requirements for a plant-variety patent by stating distinctness, uniformity, and stability and by making the seeds publicly available through the deposits. No derivations, statistical tests, or performance data appear in the text, so there is nothing to check for internal consistency or falsifiability. The central claim is definitional rather than evidentiary. For a seed company or corn breeder who needs to know exactly which parental lines produced this hybrid and where to obtain the material, the filing supplies that information directly. For anyone else it adds nothing beyond one more named entry in an already crowded catalog of commercial hybrids. The work is coherent on its own terms and does not pretend to be a research contribution. It does not belong in a scientific journal or reading group, and a serious editor would desk-reject it without sending it to referees.

Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript presents hybrid corn variety CH010476, defined as the product of a cross between inbred parent lines CV947631 and CV512858. Representative seeds of the parents are deposited under NCMA Accession Nos. 202206061 and 202106028, respectively. The central statement is a factual registration of the cross together with the public deposits.

Significance. If the deposits and distinctness/uniformity/stability assertions are accepted by the relevant authority, the work supplies the legal basis for plant-variety protection of CH010476. This enables commercial exclusivity and further breeding use of the hybrid. No new agronomic data, trait measurements, or comparative trials are supplied in the document itself, so any broader scientific or breeding significance rests on information outside the filing.

minor comments (1)

The single claim is presented without supporting phenotypic description, yield data, or stability evidence; inclusion of a brief table summarizing key distinguishing traits would improve clarity for readers outside the patent office.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the careful reading and for recommending acceptance. The filing is a standard deposit-based description of a new hybrid corn variety; no additional agronomic data were intended or required for this legal registration.

Circularity Check

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No circularity: direct registration of hybrid by parental cross and deposits

full rationale

The document is a plant-variety patent whose central claim simply states that hybrid CH010476 is produced by crossing the two named inbred parents (CV947631 × CV512858) and supplies the corresponding public accession numbers. No equations, fitted parameters, predictions, ansatzes, or uniqueness theorems appear. The legal assertion of distinctness/uniformity/stability is supplied by the filing itself together with the deposits; it does not reduce to any prior result by the same authors. Consequently the document contains no load-bearing step that can be shown to be equivalent to its inputs by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The document rests on the domain assumption that deposited seed samples faithfully represent the named varieties and that the cross produces a protectable hybrid; no free parameters, invented entities, or additional axioms are introduced.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Deposited seed samples accurately represent the stated inbred lines CV947631 and CV512858.
Required for the hybrid description to be reproducible; stated via accession numbers in the abstract.

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A seed of hybrid corn variety CH010476, produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV947631 with a second plant of variety CV512858

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