Burpeachthirtythree Peach Tree Cold Storage Durability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current peach tree varieties lack a medium-large size with moderately vigorous growth, regular and productive bearing of large, firm, yellow-fleshed clingstone fruit with good flavor and handling qualities, and extended cold storage durability.
Innovation Solution
The development of the 'Burpeachthirtythree' peach tree variety, which is a medium-large size tree with moderately vigorous growth, producing large, firm, yellow-fleshed clingstone fruit with excellent flavor and handling qualities, and maintaining commercial quality for two weeks longer in cold storage compared to its seed parent.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If peach tree varieties are selected for large fruit size and vigorous growth, then fruit yield and tree size are improved, but cold storage durability and handling qualities deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by selecting and breeding a peach tree variety with specific genetic parameters that optimize the balance between fruit size and storage durability. The 'Burpeachthirtythree' variety was developed through controlled breeding to achieve a specific combination of traits: medium-large fruit size, clingstone characteristics, and extended cold storage life of 2 weeks compared to the seed parent, while maintaining moderate tree vigor.
2Volume of moving object
If peach tree varieties produce large fruit, then fruit size is improved, but uniformity of fruit size throughout the canopy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent utilizes parameter changes through selective breeding to establish genetic parameters that control fruit size uniformity. The 'Burpeachthirtythree' variety exhibits consistent production of uniformly sized large fruit throughout the entire canopy, a trait achieved through breeding selection that regulates fruit development parameters across different tree positions.
3Strength
If peach tree varieties are selected for clingstone fruit, then fruit firmness and handling qualities are improved, but stone removal ease deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by selecting for specific genetic parameters that define the clingstone characteristic. The 'Burpeachthirtythree' variety was bred to exhibit strong flesh-adhesion to the stone parameter, which provides firmness and handling quality improvements while accepting the trade-off of reduced stone removal ease as an inherent characteristic of the clingstone fruit type.
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AI summary
A new and distinct variety of peach tree (Prunus persica), which is denominated varietally as ‘Burpeachthirtythree’, and which produces an attractively colored yellow fleshed, clingstone peach which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately August 25 to September 3 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.