I-15 Olive Tree Variety High Oil Content Early Ripening

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Solution Overview

Problem

The horticultural industry lacks a olive tree variety that combines high oil content, early ripening, low vigor, and compact growth habit suitable for mechanical harvest and stable asexual propagation, while maintaining oil quality comparable to existing varieties.

Innovation Solution

A new olive tree variety 'I-15' is developed through controlled cross-pollination between 'ARBOSANA' and 'KORONEIKI', exhibiting improved oil content, early ripening, low vigor, and compact growth, with stable characteristics maintained through asexual propagation by vegetative cuttings.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If traditional olive varieties are used, then oil quality is maintained, but oil content is insufficient (below 5%)

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveoil contentVSAvoidoil quality consistency

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the high oil content trait from Koroneiki (20-24% oil) with the desirable growth characteristics of Arbosana through controlled cross-pollination, creating I-15 that exhibits both high oil content (5-20%) and stable quality traits inherited from both parent varieties

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the genetic parameters of the olive variety by selecting specific parent varieties with complementary traits (Koroneiki for high oil content, Arbosana for growth habit) and stabilizing the offspring through asexual propagation, thereby achieving both high quantity and consistent quality

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Quantity of substance

If late-ripening varieties are used, then oil content can be higher, but harvest time is delayed reducing productivity

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveoil contentVSAvoidharvest timing efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent achieves early ripening (1-2 months before parent varieties) through preliminary genetic selection in the cross-breeding process, combining genes that promote both early maturation and high oil content accumulation, allowing earlier harvest without sacrificing oil quantity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Strength

If high-vigor varieties are used, then growth is robust, but mechanical harvest becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvegrowth vigorVSAvoidmechanical harvest suitability

Core Design Contradiction:

StrengthVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by inheriting the compact, low-vigor growth habit from Arbosana while maintaining healthy sufficient growth needed for productivity, creating a balanced architecture that is specifically optimized for mechanical harvest operations

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

4Adaptability or versatility

If sexual reproduction is used, then genetic diversity is maintained, but variety characteristics become unstable

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvegenetic diversityVSAvoidvariety characteristic stability

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses asexual propagation by vegetative cuttings to create exact genetic copies of the selected I-15 plant, ensuring that the desirable combination of traits (high oil content, early ripening, compact growth) is replicated identically across all propagated plants without genetic variation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUSPP32302P3Olive tree named ‘I-15’

Publication Date: 2020.10.13 TODOLIVO SL

AI summary

A new and distinct variety of olive tree, herein referred to by its cultivar name, ‘I-15’, is provided which forms an upright to spreading tree growth habit. Fruit with a medium weight is produced. The fruit exhibit black coloration and the fruit nipple is absent or weak. The stone of the fruit of the new variety is of medium weight.