Anthranilic Acid Plant Growth Regulator Additive

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current plant growth regulators do not fully maximize their potential benefits in agriculture, such as enhancing yield and quality, and improving harvesting processes.

Innovation Solution

The use of anthranilic acid or its derivatives in combination with agrochemically acceptable additives, such as carbohydrates, vitamins, or amino acids, and acetaminophen, to create a composition that enhances the efficacy of plant growth regulators by inducing synergistic effects.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If plant growth regulators are used alone, then basic growth control is achieved, but their potential benefits for enhancing yield and quality are not fully maximized

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecrop yieldVSAvoidefficacy of plant growth regulator
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines plant growth regulators with anthranilic acid or acetaminophen and agrochemically acceptable additives to create a composite composition. This merging of multiple substances produces a synergistic effect that maximizes the efficacy of the plant growth regulator, thereby fully achieving its potential benefits for enhancing crop yield and quality while improving reliability of the growth control effect

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The invention creates a composite formulation consisting of plant growth regulator, anthranilic acid/acetaminophen, and agrochemically acceptable additives (carbohydrates, vitamins, amino acids). This composite material approach allows the components to work together synergistically, improving the overall reliability and productivity-enhancing capabilities of the plant growth regulator beyond what any single component could achieve alone

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

2Reliability

If plant growth regulators are applied to control plant growth, then basic growth manipulation is achieved, but synergistic enhancement of effects is not realized

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveeffects of plant growth regulatorVSAvoidcomposition structure
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs agrochemically acceptable additives that serve multiple functions: carbohydrates provide energy and improve uptake, vitamins enhance metabolic processes, and amino acids support protein synthesis. These multi-functional additives work with anthranilic acid or acetaminophen to synergistically enhance the plant growth regulator effects without unnecessarily complicating the composition, as each component serves both its primary and secondary functions efficiently

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP2416653A2Plant growth regulator additive
Publication Date: 2012.02.15 TAMINCO NV

AI summary

The present invention relates to a method and composition for improving the efficacy of a plant growth regulator by the use of, particularly but not exclusively, anthranilic acid in combination with an additional agrochemically acceptable additive.