CIVG198 Apple Tree Breeding for Scab Resistance and Storage

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing apple tree varieties lack a combination of deep red skin color, high sugar content, firm flesh, scab resistance, long storage capacity, and long shelf life, which are desirable traits for commercial cultivation and consumer preferences.

Innovation Solution

The development of the new apple tree variety 'CIVG198' through a controlled breeding program, combining the traits of 'Gala' and 'Liberty' varieties, resulting in a tree with deep red skin, high sugar content, firm flesh, scab resistance, and extended storage and shelf life capabilities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If existing apple tree varieties are used, then cultivation is simple, but they lack the combination of deep red skin color, high sugar content, firm flesh, scab resistance, long storage capacity, and long shelf life

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvescab resistanceVSAvoidcombination of desirable traits

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple desirable traits from different parental varieties ('Gala' contributing red skin color and 'Liberty' contributing scab resistance) through controlled cross-breeding to create a new variety 'CIVG198' that exhibits all desired characteristics simultaneously: deep red skin, high sugar content, firm flesh, scab resistance, long storage capacity, and long shelf life

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Duration of action of stationary object

If existing apple tree varieties are used, then they have established characteristics, but they lack long storage capacity and long shelf life

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestorage capacityVSAvoidfirm flesh

Core Design Contradiction:

Duration of action of stationary objectVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent achieves extended storage capacity and shelf life while maintaining firm flesh through selective breeding that optimizes physiological parameters of the fruit, including sugar content, acidity, and cellular structure, allowing the apples to remain fresh and firm for longer periods after harvest

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUSPP18730P3Apple tree named `CIVG198`

Publication Date: 2008.04.15 C I V CONSORZIO ITALANO VIVAISTI - SOC CONSORTILE A R L

AI summary

A new and distinct Malus domestica Mill, apple tree variety named ‘CIVG198’ particularly characterized by having deep, red skin color, high sugar content, very firm flesh, scab resistance, long storage capacity and long shelf life.