Crushed Rocket Plant Biostimulant for Sustainable Crop Yield

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Solution Overview

Problem

The intensive use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers in agriculture poses environmental and health risks, leading to a need for sustainable alternatives that promote plant growth without hazardous toxicological profiles.

Innovation Solution

A biostimulant derived from crushed Rocket plant material, which includes plants from the genera Eruca, Diplotaxis, Bunias, and Cakile, is used to stimulate plant growth, root development, and precocity, offering a non-toxic and environmentally friendly solution for agriculture.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If chemical pesticides and fertilizers are used intensively to increase agricultural productivity, then plant growth and yield are improved, but environmental pollution and health risks increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveagricultural yieldVSAvoidenvironmental pollution and health risks

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent converts the harmful effects of chemical pesticides and fertilizers into beneficial biological processes by using plant-derived crushed material that stimulates natural plant growth mechanisms, root development, and nutrient uptake without toxic side effects, thereby eliminating pollution while maintaining productivity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

Solution Approach 2:

The crushed plant material acts as an intermediary biostimulant that mediates between the plant and the environment, enhancing the plant's natural abilities to absorb nutrients and resist stress without introducing harmful chemical substances, thus resolving the contradiction between productivity and environmental safety

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If chemical fertilizers are applied to increase plant biomass and fruit size, then crop yield is improved, but nitrate contamination and water pollution occur

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveplant biomass and fruit sizeVSAvoidnitrate contamination and water pollution

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent enables plants to self-enhance their growth and nutrient uptake capabilities through the biostimulant effect of crushed plant material, which stimulates the plant's own physiological processes for biomass accumulation and fruit development without requiring external chemical fertilizer inputs that cause pollution

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Productivity

If conventional fertilizing products are used to achieve higher production levels, then agricultural output is improved, but soil fertility and structure deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveagricultural outputVSAvoidsoil fertility and structure

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent converts the harmful impact of conventional fertilizers on soil structure into a beneficial effect by using crushed plant material that improves soil health through biological activity, enhances microbial communities, and promotes sustainable soil fertility while maintaining or increasing agricultural output

Inventive Principle:

Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

Data Source

PatentUS11800873B2Use of a crushed plant material for promoting plant or root growth and method for speeding up the growth of a plant

Publication Date: 2023.10.31 ELICIR SAS

AI summary

The invention relates to the use of a crushed material obtained from at least one part of rocket plants, for example of the genera Eruca (Eruca Eruca vesicaria, etc.), Diplotaxis (Diplotaxis erucoides, Diplotaxis tenuifolia, Diplotaxis muralis, etc.), Bunias (Bunias erucago, Bunias orientalis, etc.), Erucastrum (Erucastrum nasturtiifolium, Erucastrum incanum, etc.) or Cakile, in order to promote plant growth or root growth.