Charged Water Carrier for Pathogen Disruption
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for enhancing plant growth and protecting against pathogens are inefficient, with existing treatments achieving only up to 50-70% reduction in infestation and being less effective for perennials, and plant strengtheners in organic farming being less effective.
Innovation Solution
Application of a negatively charged or a mixture of positively and negatively charged carrier medium, obtained through an induction process, which excites water molecules and disrupts microorganisms, providing a disinfecting effect and improving water and nutrient uptake, thereby enhancing plant growth and reducing pathogen infestation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional chemical substances or bacterial formulations are applied to treat plants against pathogens, then some level of protection is achieved (50-70% reduction in infestation), but the treatment efficiency is insufficient especially for perennials and mechanically damaged tubers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the physical-chemical parameters of the treatment medium by applying electrical charge (positive or negative polarity) to water, creating charged carrier mediums that enhance the disinfecting effect. This parameter change transforms ordinary water into a more effective treatment agent that can penetrate and disrupt microbial cell structures more efficiently than conventional chemical substances.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces chemical substances and bacterial formulations with physically charged water molecules as the active treatment agent. The mechanism shifts from chemical reactions or biological activity to physical electrostatic interactions, where charged water molecules directly interact with and disrupt pathogen cell structures through electrostatic forces.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If more aggressive chemical treatments are used to improve pathogen reduction, then infestation control improves, but environmental harm and toxicity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent converts the normally neutral water molecule into an active treatment agent by applying electrical charge. The charged water molecules gain disinfecting properties that can effectively combat pathogens without the environmental toxicity associated with chemical substances. The water's inherent properties are enhanced through physical treatment rather than chemical contamination.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses water as an inert, environmentally benign carrier medium that delivers therapeutic effect through electrical charging rather than through harmful chemical substances. The charged water acts as a clean, non-toxic alternative to conventional chemical fungicides and bactericides, maintaining effectiveness while eliminating environmental toxicity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The method significantly reduces fungal and spore infestations on seeds and tubers, improves plant growth, and increases yield and quality, while being environmentally harmless and effective against a wide range of pathogens, including Rhizoctonia solani, with up to 68% reduction in infestation and improved drought resistance.
Implementation Method 1
a carrier medium, in particular water, which has been treated by an induction process
Implementation Method 2
The water molecules are in a cluster association that forms due to the electrostatic dipole structure of the water molecule. Through the induction process, water molecules are electrically discharged and the charge carriers generated in the cluster network are stabilized through constant exchange.
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AI summary
The method involves impacting a carrier medium on a plant and/or seed and/or tuber and/or germ bud under conditions, which are suitable for enhancing growth of a plant, which is grown from seed, and for killing phathogenic germs. The carrier medium is obtained using an electrolysis method. The electrolysis method is implemented as an influence method. The carrier medium exhibits sodium hydroxide concentration, which ranges between 5 and 500 parts per million (ppm). The medium comprises nutrient salt and/or artificial fertilizer and/or insecticide and/or fungicide and/or nematicide. : Independent claims are also included for the following: (1) a unit for dipping a plant and/or seed and/or tuber and/or germ bud (2) a method for dipping plant. USE : Method for enhancing growth and killing pathogenic germs e.g. fungus, spurs e.g. bacteria spurs and fungus spurs, virus, alga and prion, in a plant e.g. rice, wheat, oats, rye, einkorn, spelt, durum wheat, kamut(RTM: Khorasan wheat), barley, millet, sorghum, teff, hops, cotton, sunflower, peanut, corn, potato, sweet potato, bean, pea, chicory, lettuce, endive, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, turnip, radish, spinach, onion, garlic, brinjal, pepper, celery, carrot, turban gourd, pumpkin, green squash, cucumber, apple, pear, melon, strawberry, grape, raspberry, pineapple, soybean, tobacco, tomato, sorghum, sugar cane, rose, saintpaulia, petunia, geranium, poinsettia, chrysanthemum, gillyflower, cocoa and zinnia, seed and/or tuber (all claimed). ADVANTAGE : The carrier medium is obtained using the electrolysis method, which is implemented as the influence method, thus achieving effective plant protection in an economical and environmental friendly manner, and hence increasing yielding of the plant. DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS : The drawing shows a schematic view illustrating treatment of a copper solution in compare to treatment of influence method.'(Drawing includes non-English language text)'.