Anthurium ANTHFRAXK Plant Breeding for Shiny White Spathes

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Solution Overview

Problem

There is a need for a new variety of Anthurium andraeanum L. that combines specific desirable traits such as shiny, blistered, white spathes, white spadix with yellow tips, longer-lasting older flowers, and high shoot development, which existing varieties do not adequately provide.

Innovation Solution

A new variety, 'ANTHFRAXK', resulting from a cross-pollination between unpatented Anthurium plants '18667-01' and '18769-01', exhibiting these characteristics and maintained through asexual reproduction by tissue culture, with distinct features like cordate spathes, green cataphylls, and high shoot development.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Shape

If conventional Anthurium varieties are used, then basic flowering is achieved, but the spathes lack the desired shiny blistered texture and white color durability

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvespathe texture and colorVSAvoidcolor retention

Core Design Contradiction:

ShapeVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by selecting and breeding for specific genetic traits that produce the desired spathe characteristics. The breeding program focused on modifying parameters including spathe color (white), texture (blistered), and durability (older flowers remain white longer) to create a variety with superior ornamental properties that maintains these characteristics through successive propagations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Productivity

If existing Anthurium varieties are cultivated, then flowering is produced, but shoot development is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveshoot developmentVSAvoidnumber of shoots

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program modified the genetic parameters of the Anthurium plant to enhance shoot development. The new variety 'ANTHFRAXK' exhibits the characteristic of developing many shoots, representing a quantitative improvement in productivity that was selected for during the breeding process and maintained through tissue culture propagation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Manufacturing precision

If a new variety is created through cross-pollination, then distinctive characteristics are achieved, but maintaining these characteristics through propagation becomes challenging

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedistinctive characteristicsVSAvoidtrait consistency

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs tissue culture propagation to create exact copies of the selected plant. This asexual reproduction method ensures that the distinctive characteristics developed through cross-pollination are precisely replicated in successive generations, maintaining genetic uniformity and trait consistency across all propagated plants.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUSPP30921P2<i>Anthurium </i>plant named ‘ANTHFRAXK’

Publication Date: 2019.10.01 ANTHURA

AI summary

A new Anthurium plant named ‘ANTHFRAXK’ particularly distinguished by having shiny, white, cordate and durable spathes that retain the original color for a very long period of time, dark green and elliptical cordate, durable leaves, white spadix with light yellow tips, early and rich flowering continuously through the year, and a plant height of 45.0 cm to 50.0 cm is disclosed.