Compact Carnation with Bright Red Flowers and Disease Resistance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current carnation varieties lack a compact, potted spray-type with consistently bright red flowers that offer improved yield and resistance to soil-borne diseases, while maintaining a desirable growth habit and flower size.
Innovation Solution
The development of the 'CFPC Cheerful' carnation variety, which is a result of controlled breeding, featuring compact plants with small bright red flowers, excellent disease resistance, and a high flowering capacity, produced through asexual reproduction by vegetative side shoot cuttings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of moving object
If larger flowers are produced, then flower size increases, but flower quantity and compactness decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by selecting and breeding for specific genetic traits that control the balance between flower size and flower quantity. The new variety 'CFPC Cheerful' exhibits optimized parameters where flowers are smaller than the female parent but the plant produces significantly more flowers, creating a compact spray-type habit suitable for potted plants.
2Reliability
If disease resistance is improved, then reliability increases, but genetic diversity may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by conducting controlled breeding programs that pre-select parent plants with desirable disease resistance traits before making the cross. The female parent '020533' and male parent '020230' were specifically selected and bred to combine disease resistance with other desirable traits, ensuring the offspring inherit these protective characteristics.
3Ease of operation
If plant height is reduced for compactness, then ease of operation improves, but flowering capacity may be limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by optimizing the plant's growth parameters through controlled breeding. The new variety achieves a compact habit with reduced plant height compared to the female parent, while simultaneously maintaining or enhancing flowering capacity through genetic selection for high flower production traits.
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AI summary
A new variety of carnation plant named ‘CFPC Cheerful’, having a compact form of plant with well presented bright red flowers.