Salvia Bareulbpeedlas Compact Habit Breeding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing Salvia nemorosa cultivars lack compact, vigorously growing, and early-flowering varieties with unique flower colors and reduced pollen production, which limits their horticultural appeal and adaptability in diverse environmental conditions.
Innovation Solution
A new cultivar, 'Bareulbpeedlas', resulting from a cross-pollination between proprietary selections of Salvia nemorosa, exhibits an upright and compact habit, vigorous growth, early and freely branching flowering, dark blue flowers, and low pollen production, distinguishing it from parent cultivars and 'May Night' through enhanced compactness, branching, and smaller leaf and flower sizes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If existing Salvia nemorosa cultivars are used, then they can be grown and flower, but they lack compact habit, vigorous growth, early flowering, unique flower colors, and reduced pollen production
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by selecting and breeding for specific quantitative traits including compact plant habit (reduced height and spread), early flowering time, dark blue flower color, and reduced pollen production. These parameter modifications create a cultivar that simultaneously achieves multiple desirable characteristics that were previously lacking in existing Salvia nemorosa cultivars.
2Volume of moving object
If the new cultivar 'Bareulbpeedlas' is bred to be more compact with smaller leaves and flowers, then compactness is improved, but flower size and leaf size are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by creating a plant with differentiated characteristics in different parts: compact overall plant habit with reduced internode length, while maintaining vigorous growth and branching. The smaller leaves and flowers are localized features that contribute to the compact appearance without compromising the plant's overall vigor and flowering performance.
3Loss of time
If the new cultivar is bred for early and free flowering, then flowering time is improved, but the complexity of achieving stable true-to-type reproduction must be managed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by conducting extensive preliminary breeding work and selection over multiple generations to establish the early flowering trait and compact habit. Vegetative propagation methods are used to preserve and stabilize these traits before commercial release, ensuring that the cultivar reproduces true-to-type reliably while maintaining the early flowering characteristic.
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AI summary
A new and distinct cultivar of Salvia plant named ‘Bareulbpeedlas’, characterized by its upright and compact plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; early and freely flowering habit; upright inflorescences with dark blue-colored flowers; and good garden performance.