Gala Schnico Red Apple Cultivar with 100% Red Skin and High Lenticel Density

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing apple tree cultivars like 'Gala Schnico' have limited fruit skin color intensity and lenticel density, which can be suboptimal for certain environmental conditions and market preferences.

Innovation Solution

The 'Gala Schnico Red' variety, derived from a mutation of 'Schnitzer Schniga', exhibits 100% intense red fruit skin color and 30% higher lenticel density compared to 'Gala Schnico', maintaining these characteristics through asexual propagation by grafting.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If Gala Schnico variety is used, then fruit skin color intensity is sufficient for general conditions, but color intensity is limited to 80-90% coverage and not optimal for certain environmental conditions

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefruit skin color intensityVSAvoidadaptability to diverse environmental conditions

Core Design Contradiction:

Illumination intensityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by selecting and propagating a mutant plant with altered genetic parameters that result in enhanced fruit skin color intensity (100% red coverage) and increased lenticel density. This genetic parameter change enables the variety to maintain superior coloration across diverse environmental conditions where the parent variety would be limited to 80-90% coverage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Quantity of substance

If Gala Schnico variety is used, then growth and flowering characteristics are stable, but lenticel density is lower and color intensity is limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelenticel densityVSAvoidcolor uniformity

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent utilizes parameter changes by identifying a mutant with naturally altered physiological parameters including 30% higher lenticel density and complete red color coverage. The asexual propagation method preserves these altered parameters uniformly across all propagated trees, achieving both high lenticel density and color uniformity without the trade-offs present in the parent variety.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Stability of the object's composition

If asexual propagation by grafting is used, then true-to-type characteristics are maintained, but the limited color intensity and lenticel density of the parent variety are perpetuated

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvegenetic stabilityVSAvoidfruit skin color intensity

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by first identifying and selecting the mutant plant with superior color intensity and lenticel density characteristics before establishing the propagation program. By performing the selection and characterization of the improved mutant prior to asexual propagation, the patent ensures that the stable genetic composition is already optimized for enhanced coloration, and subsequent grafting merely replicates these pre-established superior traits.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUSPP27577P3Apple tree named ‘Gala Schnico Red’

Publication Date: 2017.01.24 SCHNIGA

AI summary

Malus domestica Borkh ‘Gala Schnico Red’ variety is distinguished by a unique combination of characteristics including an intensive red overcolor covering 100% of the fruit skin and a 30% higher number of lenticels per unit area on the fruit skin.