Vanda Orchid Cultivar SPCDW1409 Stable Purple Coloration

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing Vanda orchid varieties lack a distinct and stable cultivar with unique purple-colored sepals and petals, along with a specific color pattern and tonality, which are not consistently expressed across varying environmental conditions.

Innovation Solution

The development of the Vanda cultivar 'SPCDW1409', resulting from a controlled breeding program, exhibits stable unique characteristics including purple-colored sepals and petals with dark purple tessellation, blurs, and spots, and a very dark purple labellum, which remain consistent despite variations in environment.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Stability of the object's composition

If existing Vanda orchid varieties are cultivated, then they can be grown under various environmental conditions, but they lack distinct and stable unique purple color characteristics that remain consistent across varying environments

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecolor characteristic stabilityVSAvoidenvironmental adaptability

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by selectively breeding Vanda orchids to alter specific genetic parameters controlling flower coloration. The breeding program focused on modifying pigment production parameters to achieve stable purple coloration with distinctive tessellation patterns, blurs, and spots that remain consistent across different environmental conditions while maintaining the orchid's adaptability to various growing environments

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If a new Vanda cultivar with unique purple coloration is developed through breeding, then distinct floral characteristics are achieved, but the breeding process requires extensive time and controlled testing across multiple generations

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecolor characteristic consistencyVSAvoidbreeding and testing duration

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by conducting controlled crossings between selected parent plants before commercial release. The breeding program performed preliminary testing of color characteristics across multiple generations (through six subsequent generations of mericloning) to ensure stability and consistency of the unique purple coloration, tessellation patterns, blurs, and spots before propagating the cultivar for commercial distribution

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies copying through mericloning (tissue culture propagation) to create genetically identical copies of the selected orchid plant. This method ensures that the unique color characteristics, including the purple tessellation, blurs, spots, and labellum tonality, are precisely replicated across all propagated plants, maintaining reliability and consistency without requiring repeated breeding cycles

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUSPP28483P3<i>Vanda </i>plant named ‘SPCDW1409’

Publication Date: 2017.10.03 SUPHACHATWONG INNOVATION

AI summary

A new and distinct Vanda cultivar named ‘SPCDW1409’ which is characterized by sepals and petals with a unique violet color, overlaid with a color pattern consisting of dark violet slight tessellation, dark violet irregular blurs and distinct spots, as well as a very dark purple labellum contrasting the petals and sepals, and the stability of these characteristics from generation to generation.