Iniagrape-one Grapevine Cultivar Berry Shattering Resistance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current grapevine cultivars face issues with berry separation during harvest, fragile unions between rachis and pedicel, and a tendency to crack, affecting shipping and storage quality, while lacking uniform dark blue color and optimal sugar-acidity balance.
Innovation Solution
The development of the 'Iniagrape-one' cultivar, resulting from controlled hybridization between Flame Seedless and Black Seedless varieties, which exhibits vigorous growth, uniform dark blue berries, and improved sugar-acidity balance, maintaining characteristics through asexual propagation and showing resistance to shattering and cracking.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional grapevine cultivars are used for harvest, then productivity is maintained, but berry separation and cracking issues occur affecting shipping quality
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by developing a new grapevine cultivar with modified genetic parameters that inherently prevent berry separation and cracking. The 'Iniagrape-one' cultivar exhibits altered pedicel attachment strength and skin integrity parameters through controlled hybridization, eliminating the harmful effects present in conventional cultivars while maintaining productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs composite materials principles through the creation of a hybrid grapevine cultivar combining desirable traits from multiple parent varieties. The 'Iniagrape-one' cultivar is the result of controlled hybridization that integrates genetic characteristics to achieve both high productivity and superior shipping quality with resistance to berry separation and cracking.
2Stability of the object's composition
If hormonal spray is applied to induce pigmentation, then color uniformity is improved, but additional processing steps and costs are required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the self-service principle by developing a grapevine cultivar that naturally produces uniform dark blue pigmentation without requiring external hormonal sprays or additional processing interventions. The 'Iniagrape-one' cultivar possesses inherent genetic characteristics that ensure consistent color development, eliminating the need for auxiliary pigmentation-induction steps.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes parameter changes by modifying the genetic parameters of the grapevine cultivar to achieve natural, uniform dark blue pigmentation. The controlled hybridization process altered the pigmentation-related genetic parameters, enabling the cultivar to self-regulate color uniformity without external chemical interventions or additional processing complexity.
3Stability of the object's composition
If asexual propagation is used to maintain cultivar characteristics, then genetic consistency is preserved, but propagation time and effort are increased
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by establishing a genetically consistent cultivar through controlled hybridization and selection before large-scale propagation. The 'Iniagrape-one' cultivar was developed with predetermined desirable characteristics through careful parent selection and embryo rescue procedures, allowing subsequent asexual propagation to efficiently replicate the proven genotype without requiring repeated genetic verification.
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AI summary
A new and distinct variety of grapevine denominated ‘Iniagrape-one’ which is characterized by its midseason ripening. Its fruit is attractive blue-black, with seed rudiments, broad ellipsoid-narrow ellipsoid fruit shape, difficult berry separation from pedicel, firm texture with very good particular flavor because its acidity and sugars-acid ratio. The clusters are large in size, conical and medium density. Good productive capacity and keeping and shipping quality.