1. A seed of the hybrid corn variety CH956311, produced by crossing a first plant of variety I294213 with a second plant of variety I217345, wherein representative seed of said varieties have been deposited under ATCC Accession numbers PTA-7859 and PTA-8211, respectively.
2. A plant of the hybrid corn variety CH956311 grown from the seed of claim 1.
3. A plant part of the plant of claim 2.
4. The plant part of claim 3, further defined as an ear, ovule, pollen or cell.
5. A tissue culture of cells of the plant of claim 2.
6. The tissue culture of claim 5, wherein cells of the tissue culture are obtained from a leaf, pollen grain, embryo, root, root tip, anther, silk, flower, kernel, ear, cob, husk, stalk or meristem.
7. A method of producing hybrid corn seed comprising crossing a plant of variety I294213 with a plant of variety I217345, wherein representative seed of variety I294213 and variety I217345 have been deposited under ATCC Accession numbers PTA- 7859 and PTA-8211, respectively.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein said crossing is carried out by pollinating a plant of inbred variety I294213 with pollen from a plant of variety I217345.
9. The method of claim 7, wherein said crossing is carried out by pollinating a plant of inbred variety I217345 with pollen from a plant of variety I294213.
10. A method for producing corn grain comprising growing the plant of claim 2 until grain is produced and collecting the grain.
11. A method of introducing a heritable trait into hybrid corn variety CH956311 comprising the steps of:
(a) crossing a first plant of a first inbred corn variety selected from the group consisting of variety I294213 and variety I217345 with another corn plant that heritably carries the trait to produce progeny plants, at least some of which heritably carry the trait, wherein representative samples of seed of variety I294213 and variety I217345 have been deposited under ATCC Accession numbers PTA-7859 and PTA-8211, respectively;
(b) selecting progeny plants that heritably carry the trait;
(c) crossing selected progeny plants with another plant of the first inbred corn variety to produce next-generation progeny plants at least some of which heritably carry the trait;
(d) selecting next-generation progeny plants that heritably carry the trait and exhibit morphological and physiological characteristics of the first inbred corn variety;
(e) repeating steps (c) and (d) three or more times to produce at least a first selected progeny plant that heritably carries the trait and exhibits essentially all of the morphological and physical characteristics of the inbred corn variety; and
(f) crossing a progeny plant of step (e) with a plant of the other inbred corn variety of the group consisting of I294213 and I217345 to produce a seed that produces a plant comprising the trait and essentially all of the characteristics of hybrid corn variety CH956311 when grown under the same environmental conditions.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein the trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, disease resistance, waxy starch, modified fatty acid metabolism, modified phytic acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism and modified zein content.
13. The method of claim 12, further comprising repeating steps (a)\u2013(f) at least once to introduce at least a second trait into hybrid corn variety CH956311, wherein the second trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, disease resistance, waxy starch, modified fatty acid metabolism, modified phytic acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism and modified zein content.
14. A seed produced by the method of claim 11.
15. A plant grown from the seed of claim 14.
16. A method of introducing a desired trait into hybrid corn variety CH956311 comprising the steps of:
(a) introducing a transgene conferring the trait into a variety selected from the group consisting of I294213 and I217345 to produce a transgenic plant heritably carrying the trait; and
(b) crossing the transgenic plant or an isogenic progeny plant thereof with a plant of the other inbred corn variety to produce seed that heritably carries and expresses the transgene and otherwise has essentially all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of hybrid corn variety CH956311 when grown under the same environmental conditions.
17. The method of claim 16, wherein the desired trait selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, disease resistance, waxy starch, modified fatty acid metabolism, modified phytic acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism and modified zein content.
18. The method of claim 16, further comprising repeating steps (a) and (b) at least once to introduce at least a second trait into hybrid corn variety CH956311, wherein the second trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, disease resistance, waxy starch, modified fatty acid metabolism, modified phytic acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism and modified zein content.
19. A seed produced by the method of claim 16.
20. A seed produced by the method of claim 16.
21. A plant grown from the seed of claim 19.
22. A method of producing an inbred corn plant derived from the hybrid corn variety CH956311, the method comprising the steps of:
(a) preparing a progeny plant derived from hybrid corn variety CH956311 by crossing the plant of claim 2 with a second corn plant;
(b) crossing the progeny plant with itself or a second plant to produce a seed of a progeny plant of a subsequent generation;
(c) growing a progeny plant of a subsequent generation from said seed and crossing the progeny plant of a subsequent generation with itself or a second plant; and
(d) repeating steps (b) and (c) for an addition 3\u201310 generations to produce an inbred corn plant derived from the hybrid corn variety CH956311.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An evaluating system for the reliability of a deterioration-effect multi-state flow network which comprises a plurality of nodes and a plurality of arcs deteriorated during data transmission, the plurality of nodes connected by the plurality of arcs, and the evaluating system being used to evaluate a reliability of transmitting M units of data from a source node of the plurality of nodes via at least one of the plurality of nodes and at least one of the plurality of arcs to a sink node of the plurality of nodes and the sink node receiving at least N units of data from a plurality of paths, and N and M being positive integers and M being greater than N, the evaluating system comprising:
a candidate path computing unit, adapted to generate a plurality of first candidate paths that transmit the M units of data from the source node via at least one of a plurality of first arcs to the sink node receiving the M units of data under the assumption that there is no deterioration for each arc, and to obtain a plurality of invalid paths that transmit the M units of data from the source node of the plurality of first candidate paths to the sink node of the plurality of first candidate paths, and to generate a plurality of second candidate paths by removing the plurality of invalid paths from the plurality of first candidate paths, wherein each of the plurality of invalid paths comprises at least one of second arcs whose quantity of the input flow is greater than or equal to a maximum unit of data which can be carried by the second arc; and
a reliability computing unit, adapted to divide the quantity of the output flow of each arc of the plurality of second candidate paths by a deterioration-effect rate of each arc of the plurality of second candidate paths correspondingly to obtain the quantity of the input flow of each arc of the plurality of second candidate paths, and the quantity of the input flow being applied by a ceiling function to generate an integral quantity of the input flow, and the reliability of the plurality of second candidate paths being evaluated according to the integral quantity of the input flow of each arc of the plurality of second candidate paths and a probability distribution corresponding to the integral quantity of the input flow, wherein the quantity of the input flow being a positive rational.
2. The evaluating system of claim 1, wherein the deterioration-effect rate is a ratio of the quantity of the input flow transmitted stably by each of the plurality of arcs to the maximum quantity of the input flow transmitted by each of the plurality of arcs correspondingly.
3. The evaluating system of claim 1, wherein the reliability computing unit computes a sum of first reliabilities of the plurality of second candidate paths and subtracts the sum by second reliabilities of intersected paths of the plurality of second candidate paths according to the principle of inclusion-exclusion, so as to obtain the reliability.
4. An evaluating method for the reliability of a deterioration-effect multi-state flow network which comprises a plurality of nodes and a plurality of arcs deteriorated during data transmission, the plurality nodes connected by the plurality of the arcs, and the evaluating method being used to evaluate a reliability of transmitting M units of data from a source node of the plurality of nodes via at least one of the plurality of nodes and at least one of the plurality of arcs to a sink node of the plurality of nodes and the sink node receiving at least N units of data from a plurality of paths, and N and M being positive integers and M being greater than N, the evaluating method comprising the following steps of:
generating a plurality of first candidate paths that transmit the M units of data from the source node via at least one of the plurality of first arcs to the sink node receiving the M units of data under the assumption that there is no deterioration for each arc;
obtaining a plurality of invalid paths that transmit the M units of data from the source node of the plurality of first candidate paths to the sink node of the plurality of first candidate paths, and generating a plurality of second candidate paths by removing the plurality of invalid paths from the plurality of first candidate paths, wherein each of the plurality of invalid paths comprises at least one of second arcs whose quantity of the input flow is greater than or equal to a maximum unit of data which can be carried by the second arc;
dividing the quantity of output flow of each arc of the plurality of second candidate paths by a deterioration-effect rate of each arc of the plurality of second candidate paths correspondingly to obtain the quantity of the input flow of each arc of the plurality of second candidate paths;
generating an integral quantity of the input flow by applying a ceiling function to the quantity of the input flow; and
evaluating the reliability of the plurality of second candidate paths according to the integral quantity of the input flow of each arc of the plurality of second candidate paths and a probability distribution corresponding to the integral quantity of the input flow, wherein the quantity of the input flow is a positive rational.
5. The evaluating method of claim 4, wherein the deterioration-effect rate is a ratio of the quantity of the input flow transmitted stably by each of the plurality of arcs to the maximum quantity of the input flow transmitted by each of the plurality of arcs correspondingly.
6. The evaluating system of claim 4, wherein a sum of first reliabilities of the plurality of second candidate paths is computed and the sum is subtracted by second reliabilities of intersected paths of the plurality of second candidate paths according to the principle of inclusion-exclusion, so as to obtain the reliability.