CPPA Mixture with Transition Metal Salts for Plant Stress Tolerance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional nutritional plant treatments are ineffective in addressing environmental stresses such as drought, salinity, low light, water logging, disease, and pests, and fail to enhance plant biology under these conditions.
Innovation Solution
A method involving an aqueous mixture of complex polymeric polyhydroxy acids (CPPA) with added transition metal cations or alkali/earth metal salts, applied to plants or their loci, to synergistically enhance biological processes, including nutrient availability and stress tolerance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional nutritional plant treatments are used, then basic nutrient supply is provided, but they are ineffective under environmental stresses such as drought, salinity, low light, water logging, disease, and pests
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines CPPA (complex polymeric polyhydroxy acids) with transition metal cations to create a composite formulation that provides both nutritional benefits and stress tolerance enhancement. This composite approach allows the treatment to effectively address multiple environmental stresses simultaneously, including drought, salinity, low light, water logging, disease, and pests, thereby resolving the contradiction between reliability under stress and adaptability to multiple stress conditions
2Productivity
If CPPA is combined with transition metal cations, then synergistic enhancement of biological processes is achieved, but the formulation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges CPPA with transition metal cations in a single aqueous mixture formulation, combining multiple active components into one integrated product. This merging approach achieves synergistic enhancement of plant biological processes while maintaining formulation simplicity, as the components are mixed in aqueous solution rather than requiring separate application systems, thus resolving the contradiction between productivity enhancement and formulation complexity
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The CPPA mixture significantly improves plant growth, development, and stress tolerance, leading to increased yields and improved crop quality, as demonstrated by greenhouse and field experiments.
Implementation Method 1
The method comprises contacting a part of a plant or the locus thereof with a composition of matter comprising a mixture of complex polymeric polyhydroxy acids (CPPA) with added cationic species
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AI summary
A method of effecting at least one biological process in a plant is disclosed. The method comprises contacting a part of a seed, a plant, or the locus thereof with a mixture comprising an agriculturally acceptable mixture of (i) complex polymeric polyhydroxy acids and (ii) a phytotoxic amount of one or more alkali (earth) salts and/or a synergistic amount of at least one source of an agriculturally acceptable transition metal ions.