Crop Stability Plan Using Silicon to Cut Growth Regulators
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional application plans for growth regulators in agriculture often result in excessive use, leading to high costs and environmental impact, while reducing their use poses risks of significant yield losses or crop failure due to insufficient stability under mechanical stress.
Innovation Solution
A modified application plan that reduces the amount of growth regulators, particularly by incorporating a silicon-containing mixture, which is applied in a specific manner to enhance plant stability and reduce mechanical stress, combined with trace nutrients for improved crop health and yield.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If the amount of growth regulators is reduced, then costs and environmental impact are reduced, but crop stability and yield may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the chemical composition parameters by introducing silicon-containing compounds (such as silicates, silicon dioxide, or organic silicon compounds) into the treatment mixture. This parameter change allows the system to achieve the same or better stabilizing effect with reduced amounts of conventional growth regulators, thus resolving the contradiction between reducing chemical用量 and maintaining crop stability
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a composite treatment system that combines growth regulators with silicon-containing compounds in a synergistic formulation. This composite approach allows the two substances to work together, where the silicon component enhances plant strength and stability while reducing the required dosage of growth regulators, thereby maintaining reliability while reducing quantity
2Reliability
If conventional application plans are used, then crop stability is maintained, but costs and environmental impact increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and emphasizes the stabilizing function from the conventional growth regulator system by introducing a separate silicon-containing component. This extracted function (crop stabilization) is then achieved through the silicon compound, allowing reduction or elimination of the original growth regulator application while maintaining the same stability effect
Solution Approach 2:
The silicon-containing compound acts as an intermediary substance that mediates between the application plan and the crop stability outcome. Instead of directly using high amounts of growth regulators, the silicon compound serves as a mediating agent that enhances plant cell wall strength and structural integrity, thereby achieving stability through a different chemical pathway
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AI summary
In order to be able to reduce the amounts of growth regulators that are applied in a conventional application plan in agricultural growing of cultivated plants, the invention provides a method for improving the stability of a cultivated plant, in which method the following steps are carried out: determining a conventional application plan, which comprises a first amount per unit area of arable land of a first growth regulator for a first spraying of the cultivated plants, and a time for the first spraying; modifying the conventional application plan in order to obtain a modified application plan, wherein the modified application plan comprises a second amount per unit area of arable land of the first growth regulator for the first spraying, wherein the second amount per unit area of arable land is smaller than the first amount per unit area of arable land, a time for the first spraying, a third amount per unit area of arable land of a silicon-containing liquid mixture of substances for a spraying, and a time for spraying the third amount per unit area of arable land of the silicon-containing mixture of substances; and treating the cultivated plants on the arable land in accordance with the modified application plan.