MORED Apple Tree Merging Fruit Quality and Mildew Tolerance

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Solution Overview

Problem

There is a need for a new and distinct variety of apple tree that combines high productivity, mid-season harvest, sweet and crispy fruits with low acidity, and tolerance to mildew, which are not adequately met by existing commercial varieties.

Innovation Solution

The Malus domestica variety 'MORED' is characterized by its full red or nearly full red fruit skin, very sweet and large, juicy, and crispy fruits, high productivity, mid-season maturation, and tolerance to mildew, achieved through asexual reproduction by grafting onto M9 rootstocks.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If existing commercial apple varieties are used, then they have established market presence and cultivation methods, but they do not simultaneously provide high productivity, mid-season harvest, sweet crispy fruits with low acidity, and mildew tolerance

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecombination of productivity, harvest time, fruit quality, and disease toleranceVSAvoidconsistency of fruit quality and characteristics

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple desirable traits (high productivity, mid-season harvest timing, sweet crispy fruit with low acidity, full red color, and mildew tolerance) into a single apple variety 'MORED'. This merging of previously separate advantageous characteristics into one unified variety resolves the contradiction by providing all these features simultaneously rather than requiring multiple different varieties.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses asexual reproduction through grafting onto M9 rootstocks to create exact genetic copies of the selected apple tree. This copying process ensures that the unique combination of traits is firmly fixed and retained through successive generations, providing reliability and consistency of fruit quality while maintaining all the combined advantageous characteristics.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

2Ease of operation

If apple varieties with sweet and crispy fruits are selected, then fruit quality improves, but productivity and disease tolerance may be compromised

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefruit quality (sweetness, crispiness, juiciness)VSAvoidtree productivity and yield

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The 'MORED' variety merges excellent fruit quality characteristics (sweetness, crispiness, juiciness, low acidity) with high productivity and mildew tolerance into a single unified variety. This resolves the contradiction by demonstrating that these previously thought-to-be-trading-off characteristics can coexist when the right genetic combination is achieved through selective breeding.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Shape

If apple varieties with full red fruit skin are bred, then market appeal improves, but fruit taste and storage quality may deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefruit skin colorVSAvoidstorage quality and taste consistency

Core Design Contradiction:

ShapeVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines full red or nearly full red fruit skin color with excellent taste qualities (sweetness, low acidity, crispiness) and good storage characteristics in the 'MORED' variety. This merging resolves the contradiction by achieving a genetic combination where high visual appeal does not come at the expense of taste quality or storage performance.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

Through asexual reproduction by grafting, the patent creates genetically identical copies of the apple variety that consistently reproduce the full red skin color along with the associated taste and storage qualities. This copying process ensures that the desirable combination of color, taste, and storage characteristics is firmly fixed and retained, providing reliability across generations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

4Loss of time

If mid-season harvest varieties are selected, then harvest timing is optimized, but fruit size and quality may be reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveharvest timingVSAvoidfruit size

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of timeVSVolume of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The 'MORED' variety merges mid-season harvest timing with large fruit size and excellent quality characteristics. This resolves the contradiction by achieving a genetic combination where the tree produces large, high-quality fruits that are ready for harvest in the mid-season period, rather than requiring early or late harvest timing that might compromise fruit development.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUSPP27368P3Apple tree named ‘MORED’

Publication Date: 2016.11.15 CULTURA JEAN MOORS B V B A

AI summary

A new and distinct Malus domestica apple tree variety named ‘MORED’, particularly characterized by a full red or nearly full red fruit skin; very sweet fruit with little acidity; large, juicy and crispy fruit; a productive tree with a high percentage of well-colored fruits that can be picked at the same time; a mid-season time of maturation; and tolerance to mildew.