Ipomoea Balsolared Cultivar High Night Temperature Adaptability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current ornamental Ipomoea cultivars do not adequately meet the demand for varieties with a well-branched, mounded growth habit that perform well under high night temperatures, particularly in controlled breeding programs.
Innovation Solution
The development of the 'Balsolared' cultivar, resulting from cross-pollination between ILLUSION Garnet Lace and 'Sweet Caroline Bronze', characterized by bronzed-burgundy colored foliage and a moderately vigorous, compact to trailing growth habit, which is reproduced true to type through asexual propagation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional ornamental Ipomoea cultivars are used, then they have established growth habits and foliage colors, but they do not adequately meet the demand for varieties with well-branched mounded growth habit that perform well under high night temperatures
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses controlled cross-pollination as an intermediary breeding method between two parent cultivars (ILLUSION Garnet Lace and Sweet Caroline Bronze) to develop a new cultivar that inherits desirable traits for high night temperature performance and well-branched mounded growth habit, resolving the contradiction between adaptability improvement and breeding complexity
2Manufacturing precision
If new cultivar characteristics are developed through cross-pollination, then distinct foliage color and growth habit are achieved, but reproduction stability must be ensured through asexual propagation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs asexual propagation by terminal stem cuttings to create exact genetic copies of the new cultivar, ensuring that the distinct bronzed-burgundy foliage color and mounded growth habit are reproduced true to type without variation, thus achieving manufacturing precision in cultivar reproduction
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AI summary
A new and distinct cultivar of an ornamental Ipomoea plant named ‘Balsolared’, characterized by bronzed-burgundy foliage, and moderately vigorous, moderately-compact, mounded to trailing growth habit, is disclosed.