Glenheart Cherry Tree Heat Tolerance and Cracking Resistance
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need for a cherry tree variety that is self-unfruitful, heat-tolerant, and produces dark red, sweet, clingstone cherries with a strong stem attachment and improved durability for shipping and storage, as existing varieties face issues with fruit size, ripening timing, and cracking resistance.
Innovation Solution
The 'Glenheart' cherry tree variety, developed through controlled pollination and asexual reproduction, exhibits these desired traits, being similar to 'Glenred' but distinguished by its larger size, earlier blooming, and enhanced heat tolerance, with characteristics such as medium to large size, vigorous growth, and clingstone fruit that remains firm and resistant to cracking.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If cherry trees are bred for larger fruit size and later ripening, then fruit quality and sweetness improve, but the trees become more susceptible to heat damage and cracking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by systematically varying breeding parameters including parent selection, pollination timing, and growth conditions to achieve optimal fruit characteristics. The 'Glenheart' variety represents a specific parameter configuration that balances ripening time with heat tolerance through controlled genetic parameters.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs composite materials principles by creating a composite genetic structure through hybridization of different cherry tree varieties. The 'Glenheart' variety combines genetic traits from multiple parent trees to achieve a composite phenotype that integrates both late-ripening sweetness with heat tolerance and cracking resistance.
2Productivity
If cherry trees produce heavy crops, then productivity increases, but fruit firmness and shipping durability decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The patent utilizes parameter changes by optimizing tree vigor and crop load parameters to maintain fruit firmness. The 'Glenheart' variety exhibits controlled vigor parameters that allow heavy cropping while preserving the structural integrity and firmness necessary for shipping durability.
3Object-generated harmful factors
If cherry varieties are bred for sweetness and flavor, then eating quality improves, but storage life and shipping quality deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies composite materials principles by creating a composite genetic makeup that integrates flavor development genes with storage durability genes. The 'Glenheart' variety combines genetic traits for sweetness and flavor with traits for extended storage life and shipping quality, achieving a balanced composite phenotype.
4Loss of time
If cherry trees bloom earlier, then the growing season is extended, but heat tolerance during ripening is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs parameter changes by precisely controlling blooming time parameters and ripening duration to optimize the growing season. The 'Glenheart' variety exhibits adjusted phenological parameters that extend the effective growing season while maintaining adequate heat tolerance during the critical ripening period.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a cherry tree, Prunus avium, and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium to large size, vigorous, hardy, self-unfruitful, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in mid May, with first picking on May 12, 2014. The fruit is uniformly medium to large in size, excellent in flavor with 22 to 26 brix, somewhat oblate in shape, clingstone in type, heat tolerant, very firm in texture, dark red in flesh color, dark red in skin color, and is strongly attached to a short stem.