Echinacea Cultivar With Uniform Orange Flowers and Branching

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing Echinacea cultivars lack distinct characteristics such as vibrant orange flowers, uniform growth, and robust branching, which are desirable for horticultural applications.

Innovation Solution

Development of a new Echinacea cultivar 'BullEchipur 121' with medium compact growth, vibrant orange flowers, abundant branching, and uniform growth, achieved through asexual propagation in vitro.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional Echinacea cultivars are used, then propagation is straightforward, but they lack distinct characteristics such as vibrant orange flowers, uniform growth, and robust branching

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedistinct characteristicsVSAvoidpropagation difficulty

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses in vitro micropropagation to create exact genetic copies of the selected Echinacea plant, ensuring that the distinctive traits (vibrant orange flowers, uniform growth, robust branching) are faithfully reproduced in successive generations without the need for complex breeding programs

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

2Manufacturing precision

If in vitro propagation is used, then unique features are stable and reproduced true to type, but propagation time and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetrait consistencyVSAvoidpropagation complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary selection of the parent plant with desired traits before initiating in vitro propagation, and establishes standardized propagation protocols in advance, which simplifies the overall process by preventing the need for repeated trait verification in subsequent generations

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Manufacturing precision

If in vitro propagation is used, then unique features are stable and reproduced true to type, but time investment since September 2021 indicates extended propagation period

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetrait consistencyVSAvoidpropagation time

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent maintains continuous in vitro propagation cycles without interruption, keeping cultures in active multiplication phases, which maximizes the propagation rate and reduces total time required to establish stable, true-to-type populations of the new cultivar

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS20250386752P1Echinacea Plant Named 'BullEchipur 121'

Publication Date: 2025.12.18 BULL HARTWIG

AI summary

A new and distinct variety of Echinacea plant named ‘BullEchipur 121’ having orange colored flowers, good growth habit, more uniformity, good branching plant, and good propagation rates.