Helenium Siesta Cultivar Compact Habit Orange-Red Florets

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Solution Overview

Problem

There is a need for new compact Helenium plants with attractive ray and disc colors, as existing cultivars do not offer the desired combination of compact growth habit, vigorous flowering, and specific floret color characteristics.

Innovation Solution

A new cultivar, 'Siesta', was developed through planned breeding of Helenium hybrida 'Ruby Tuesday' with an unknown male parent, resulting in a compact, upright plant with orange-red ray florets and strong peduncles, differing from parent cultivars in ray floret color and shape.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If existing Helenium cultivars are used, then they have established growth habits and flowering characteristics, but they do not provide the desired combination of compact growth habit, vigorous flowering, and specific orange-red floret colors

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvegrowth habit and floret color characteristicsVSAvoidvigorous flowering with compact habit

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program systematically varied genetic parameters through controlled cross-pollination between Helenium hybrida 'Ruby Tuesday' and unknown male parents, selecting for specific combinations of compact growth habit parameters and orange-red floret color parameters that did not exist in existing cultivars

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If Helenium hybrida 'Ruby Tuesday' is used as the female parent, then it provides a known genetic baseline, but the offspring require selection to achieve the desired compact habit and orange-red color differentiation

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvegenetic stabilityVSAvoidselection of unique characteristics in progeny

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program implemented systematic observation and selection feedback loops, where progeny plants were monitored for compact growth habit and orange-red floret color expression, with selected individuals propagated asexually to confirm stable inheritance of desired traits before cultivar designation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Stability of the object's composition

If asexual reproduction by terminal cuttings is used, then the unique features are stable and reproduce true to type, but the propagation process requires controlled greenhouse environment and time

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetrait stabilityVSAvoidpropagation time

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The breeding program performed preliminary selection and characterization of unique traits in the T3 generation before initiating asexual propagation, ensuring that only plants with stable, true-to-type characteristics were propagated through terminal cuttings in controlled greenhouse environments, thereby preventing time loss from propagating unstable variants

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUSPP25969P2<i>Helenium </i>plant named ‘Siesta’

Publication Date: 2015.09.29 AB KWEKERSRECHTEN

AI summary

A new and distinct cultivar of Helenium plant named ‘Siesta’, characterized by its compact and broadly upright plant habit; moderately vigorous growth habit; freely flowering habit; inflorescences with orange red-colored ray florets; and strong peduncles that hold the inflorescences above the foliar plane.