Petunia DAMORMIO Cultivar Heart-Shaped Flower Patterns

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Solution Overview

Problem

There is a need for new Petunia varieties with interesting color patterns and attractive plant forms that can reproduce stably and consistently across various environmental conditions while differing from existing varieties in terms of growth habit, flower size, and color.

Innovation Solution

The development of the Petunia hybrida cultivar 'DAMORMIO' through crossing proprietary seedlings 'c.v. 12-6708' and 'c.v. 13-6934', resulting in a mounded growth habit with pink flowers featuring white stripes, large flower size, and abundant flowering, which is stable across generations and environmental variations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional Petunia varieties are used, then they have established growth habits and flower colors, but they lack unique color patterns and attractive plant forms that distinguish them from existing varieties

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveunique color patterns and attractive plant formsVSAvoidstability across environmental conditions

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by developing a new cultivar with specific genetic parameters that produce unique color patterns (pink with white stripes forming heart shapes) and distinctive plant forms (mounded growth habit). These parameter changes in the genetic code enable the plant to express novel phenotypic traits that differentiate it from conventional varieties while maintaining stability through true-to-type reproduction.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If new color patterns and plant forms are developed through breeding, then unique characteristics are achieved, but stability and consistency across generations and environmental conditions must be maintained

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveunique color patterns and plant formsVSAvoidgenetic stability across generations

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs vegetative propagation through cuttings rather than seed reproduction, which ensures genetic stability and true-to-type reproduction. This propagation method creates genetically identical clones that maintain the unique color patterns and mounded growth habit consistently across generations, eliminating the genetic variability that would occur with sexual reproduction.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

3Area of moving object

If Petunia varieties are bred for large flower size, then flower dimensions increase, but flower color pattern complexity and growth habit uniqueness may be compromised

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveflower sizeVSAvoidcolor pattern and growth habit

Core Design Contradiction:

Area of moving objectVSShape

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by ensuring that the unique color pattern (pink with white stripes forming heart shapes along the margin) is distributed uniformly across the entire flower surface, including the large petal areas. The mounded growth habit is also consistently expressed throughout the plant structure. This uniform distribution of distinctive traits across the entire plant and flower ensures that large flower size does not compromise pattern complexity or growth habit uniqueness.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUSPP29019P2<i>Petunia </i>plant named ‘DAMORMIO’

Publication Date: 2018.02.27 DANZIGER

AI summary

A new and distinct Petunia cultivar named ‘DAMORMIO’ is disclosed, characterized by very well branched, mounded plants with a medium vigor. Flower color pink with white stripes, forming unique heart shaped patterns along the margins under high light conditions. Flower size is large and plants flower abundantly. The new variety is a Petunia, suitable as an outdoor garden or container plant.