Phlox hybrida Cultivar USPHL03M High Temperature Tolerance
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing cultivars of Phlox hybrida lack distinctiveness in plant form and flower color, particularly in high temperature tolerance and continuous flowering habit, which limits their adaptability and aesthetic appeal in diverse environmental conditions.
Innovation Solution
The new cultivar 'USPHLO3M' is a naturally occurring branch mutation of Phlox hybrida, characterized by an upright, spreading, and mounding plant form with vigorous growth, freely branching habit, dense flowering, and bi-colored purple and white flowers, exhibiting tolerance to high temperatures and continuous flowering, achieved through asexual reproduction by cuttings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If existing Phlox hybrida cultivars are used, then they have basic flowering capability, but they lack distinctiveness in plant form and flower color, and show poor adaptability to high temperatures
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by selecting and propagating a branch mutation with altered genetic parameters that result in distinct bi-colored flower patterns (purple and white), unique plant form (upright, spreading, mounding), and improved thermal tolerance. The asexual reproduction by cuttings maintains these altered parameters stable across generations.
2Productivity
If existing Phlox hybrida cultivars are used, then they have basic flowering habit, but they lack continuous flowering capability and vigorous growth
Solution Approach 1:
The patent achieves continuity of useful action through the selected mutation exhibiting freely branching habit and continuous flowering capability. The plant maintains active growth and flowering over extended periods with vigorous growth habit, rather than having discrete flowering cycles.
3Shape
If existing Phlox hybrida cultivars are used, then they have simple plant structure, but they lack dense and busy plant habit with short internodes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by creating a plant with varied structural characteristics in different regions: short internodes creating dense clusters, freely branching patterns producing multiple lateral stems, and upright spreading growth forming a mounding shape. Each local region of the plant exhibits specific qualities that contribute to the overall distinctive form.
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A new and distinct cultivar of Phlox plant named ‘USPHLO3M’, characterized by its upright, outwardly spreading and mounding plant form; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit and short internodes; dense and busy plant habit; freely and continuous flowering habit; purple and white bi-colored flowers; and relative tolerance to high temperatures.