Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010541

Clinton J. Turnbull, Thayer, NE (US); Devin Michael Nichols, Rochester, IL (US); Magen Eller, Lanesville, IN (US); Maria Mateos-Hernandez, Taylorville, IL (US); Slobodan Trifunovic, Chesterfield, MO (US)

USPTO: us-12635640 · published 2026-05-26 · patents · A01H 6/4684· A01H 5/10

Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010541

Magen Eller, Lanesville, IN (US) , Maria Mateos-Hernandez, Taylorville, IL (US) , Devin Michael Nichols, Rochester, IL (US) , Slobodan Trifunovic, Chesterfield, MO (US) , Clinton J. Turnbull, Thayer, NE (US) This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-05-28 08:01 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification patents A01H 6/4684A01H 5/10

keywords hybrid cornCH010541plant varietyseed depositCV636724CV431316corn breeding

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A hybrid corn variety CH010541 is produced by crossing deposited lines CV636724 and CV431316.

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

The document establishes a specific hybrid corn seed, CH010541, obtained from crossing two named parent varieties whose representative seeds are deposited in recognized collections. It specifies the exact parental accessions and asserts that the resulting hybrid constitutes a distinct, uniform, and stable variety. A sympathetic reader would care because this legal description enables commercial protection, seed certification, and reproducible planting of the claimed hybrid. The text centers on the act of crossing the two accessions to generate the hybrid seed as the defining step.

Core claim

A seed of hybrid corn variety CH010541, produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV636724 with a second plant of variety CV431316, wherein representative seeds of said varieties CV636724 and CV431316 are deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306082 and ATCC Accession No. PTA-126192, respectively.

What carries the argument

The deposited parental seed lines CV636724 and CV431316, whose controlled cross produces the claimed hybrid seed CH010541.

If this is right

Farmers and seed companies can obtain and plant seed of CH010541 with the expectation of consistent hybrid performance.
The variety can be maintained by repeated crossing of the same two deposited parental lines.
Intellectual property protection for the hybrid rests on the deposited accessions and the described crossing method.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

If the deposits remain viable, any qualified party can regenerate the hybrid at any future date.
The claim supplies a concrete starting point for further breeding programs that wish to introgress traits from CH010541 into new backgrounds.
Verification of the hybrid's performance traits would require field trials beyond the legal description given in the document.

Load-bearing premise

The two deposited parental lines are genetically distinct, stable, and produce a uniform and reproducible hybrid when crossed.

What would settle it

Grow out plants from the stated cross of the two accessioned lines and check whether the resulting population matches the uniformity, distinctness, and agronomic traits asserted for variety CH010541.

read the original abstract

1 . A seed of hybrid corn variety CH010541, produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV636724 with a second plant of variety CV431316, wherein representative seeds of said varieties CV636724 and CV431316 are deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306082 and ATCC Accession No. PTA-126192, 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 US plant patent filing for corn hybrid CH010541 defined by two deposited parental lines; it contains no scientific data or analysis.

read the letter

This document simply registers a commercial corn hybrid by naming its parents and their accession numbers. The only new element is the specific combination called CH010541, protected through the legal act of deposit rather than any measured trait or genetic description. That meets the formal requirements for a plant patent application, which is what it is. No experiments, yield data, disease scores, or stability tests appear in the text. The claim rests entirely on the crossing statement and the two accession numbers. Because nothing is tested or derived, there is no soundness issue to evaluate and no circularity to check. The document is not trying to advance a scientific result, so the usual criteria for novelty or reproducibility do not apply. It will interest plant breeders or IP counsel who need to track protected varieties, but it offers nothing for a research audience. If this arrived at a journal I would desk-reject without review; it is not a candidate for peer review as a scientific paper.

Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript consists of a single legal claim defining hybrid corn variety CH010541 as a seed produced by crossing plant variety CV636724 (NCMA Accession No. 202306082) with plant variety CV431316 (ATCC Accession No. PTA-126192). No data, methods, results, or derivations are presented.

Significance. If treated as a plant patent instrument, the claim establishes a legal definition of a protected variety via parental crossing and deposit; it contains no scientific findings, parameter-free derivations, reproducible protocols, or falsifiable predictions that would contribute to the research literature.

minor comments (1)

The text contains no abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, tables, figures, or references, rendering it incompatible with standard journal article format.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 1 unresolved

We thank the referee for the review. This document is a US plant patent claim (arXiv:patent/us-12635640), not a scientific research article. Its sole purpose is to establish legal protection for hybrid corn variety CH010541 via the required deposit and crossing language under 35 U.S.C. § 161. We address the referee's observations below.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: The manuscript consists of a single legal claim defining hybrid corn variety CH010541 as a seed produced by crossing plant variety CV636724 (NCMA Accession No. 202306082) with plant variety CV431316 (ATCC Accession No. PTA-126192). No data, methods, results, or derivations are presented.

Authors: Correct. A plant patent claim is statutorily limited to this form; it does not contain experimental data or methods sections. The legal sufficiency of the claim rests on the enabling disclosure provided by the deposited accessions and the single recited cross, which is the standard required by USPTO practice. revision: no
Referee: If treated as a plant patent instrument, the claim establishes a legal definition of a protected variety via parental crossing and deposit; it contains no scientific findings, parameter-free derivations, reproducible protocols, or falsifiable predictions that would contribute to the research literature.

Authors: We agree that the document contains no scientific findings or protocols. Patents serve a distinct legal function from research papers; they are not intended to contribute to the scientific literature. The contribution here is the creation and deposit of a novel, stable hybrid variety that meets the statutory requirements for plant patent protection. revision: no

standing simulated objections not resolved

The document inherently lacks scientific data, methods, or falsifiable predictions because its statutory purpose is legal protection of a plant variety rather than scientific reporting.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity

full rationale

The document is a US plant patent claim consisting solely of a legal statement that a hybrid seed is produced by crossing two deposited parental lines. No derivations, equations, predictions, parameters, or empirical results are present, so no derivation chain exists that could reduce to its own inputs. The Pith circularity framework does not apply; the claim is self-contained as a legal instrument resting on the act of deposit and crossing.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the legal validity of the seed deposits and the assumption that the cross produces a distinct, uniform, and stable variety. No free parameters, mathematical axioms, or invented physical entities are introduced.

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A seed of hybrid corn variety CH010541, produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV636724 with a second plant of variety CV431316, wherein representative seeds of said varieties CV636724 and CV431316 are deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306082 and ATCC Accession No. PTA-126192, respectively.
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A seed of hybrid corn variety CH010541, produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV636724 with a second plant of variety CV431316, wherein representative seeds of said varieties CV636724 and CV431316 are deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202306082 and ATCC Accession No. PTA-126192, respectively.

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