Campeye Geranium Breeding Without Cooling

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing Regal Geranium cultivars require cooling treatment for flower development, limiting their adaptability and uniformity under varying environmental conditions.

Innovation Solution

Development of the 'Campeye' cultivar of Pelargonium grandiflorum, which exhibits a vigorous, upright growth habit, basal branching, small leaves, early and frequent flowering, and bi-colored pink-red flowers without the need for cooling treatment, achieved through controlled cross-pollination and asexual reproduction.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If existing Regal Geranium cultivars are used, then flower development can be achieved, but cooling treatment is required which limits adaptability and uniformity under varying environmental conditions

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveadaptability to varying environmental conditionsVSAvoidcooling treatment requirement

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by selecting and breeding plants with specific genetic parameters that enable flower development without cooling treatment. The new cultivar 'Campeye' has been bred with modified physiological parameters allowing it to bypass the traditional cooling requirement, thus improving adaptability to varying environmental conditions while eliminating the need for complex cooling systems

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Manufacturing precision

If parent selections are used for breeding, then cross-pollination can be performed, but flower coloration and uniformity are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveflower coloration uniformityVSAvoidbreeding process complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by focusing on specific genetic traits and characteristics in the plant parts. The breeder selected parent plants with specific local qualities (flower color, leaf shape, growth habit) and tracked these traits through generations to achieve uniformity in the new cultivar 'Campeye', thereby improving flower coloration uniformity while managing breeding complexity through targeted selection

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

3Shape

If conventional Regal Geranium cultivars are grown, then basic growth can be achieved, but plant habit and compactness are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveplant habit compactnessVSAvoidgrowth vigor

Core Design Contradiction:

ShapeVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies dynamics by observing and selecting plants with dynamic growth patterns that result in compact, mounded habits. The new cultivar 'Campeye' exhibits a dynamic growth vigor that naturally maintains compactness and upright spreading habit, allowing the plant to achieve both compact shape and vigorous productivity without requiring additional constraints

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUSPP20425P2Geranium plant named 'Campeye'

Publication Date: 2009.10.13 ELSNER PAC JUNGPFLANZEN

AI summary

A new and distinct cultivar of Regal Geranium plant named ‘Campeye’, characterized by its upright, outwardly spreading and mounded plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely basal branching habit; relatively small leaves; early and freely flowering habit; pink and red purple bi-colored flowers; and no requirement for cooling treatment for flower development.