Gaillardia Sun Devil Compact Habit and Floret Coloration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing Gaillardia cultivars lack a compact, vigorous variety with specific floret coloration and inflorescence characteristics, particularly in terms of size and red coloration in ray florets.
Innovation Solution
A new cultivar, 'Sun Devil', characterized by a compact habit, dark red and yellow-orange tubular ray florets, and excellent vigor, achieved through asexual propagation techniques like division and tissue culture, resulting in consistent progeny characteristics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Shape
If existing Gaillardia cultivars are used, then they have larger inflorescences, but they lack compact habit and specific red coloration in ray florets
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by selectively breeding for specific morphological parameters (compact growth habit, reduced internode length) and color parameters (dark red ray florets with yellow-orange tips) to create a new cultivar that meets the desired aesthetic and structural characteristics
2Ease of manufacture
If existing Gaillardia cultivars are used, then they have larger ray florets, but they do not exhibit the specific dark red with yellow orange tip coloration
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs asexual propagation methods (division and tissue culture) to create exact genetic copies of the selected parent plant, ensuring that the distinctive dark red ray florets with yellow-orange tips are uniformly reproduced across all progeny without genetic variation
Solution Approach 2:
The breeding program specifically targeted color parameters by selecting for dark red ray florets with yellow-orange tips, transforming the color characteristics from the parent cultivars to achieve the desired uniform appearance in the new cultivar
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AI summary
A new and distinct Gaillardia plant named ‘Sun Devil’ characterized by a very compact habit, tubular ray florets of dark red tipped with yellow orange, and excellent vigor.