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Industry Sector: Agriculture
Purpose and Origin: Method and device developed by Dr. Boris Kotov, formerly Senior Scientist with the Russian Space Agency, and based on the use of the natural electromagnetic radiation emitted by every seed and plant material to substantially enhance one or more of their natural properties.
Technical Detail: The method consists of stimulating seeds and other plant vegetative material with the synthesized radiation spectrum of similar or compatible seeds or plants, to impart them with additional or significantly enhanced properties (e.g. protein, sugar or other mineral content,; yield; juiciness; skin thickness; fruit size; frost, heat and pest resistance; etc…). The method uses a microwave frequency receiver/analyzer and a microwave frequency radiator, both unique in their properties and specially designed and constructed. Todate over 200,000 frequency recordings of a large number of seeds and other vegetative plant material have been made with the radiator prototype, allowing a "frequency map" of their radiation spectra to be drawn, for use in the irradiation process. The process is safe, and does not cause any genetic modification. Patents have been applied for.
Potential Applications: The method can be applied to every plant growth and seed improvement process, as well as towards the production of adapted hybrids, without the controversial effect of genetic modification.
Market Potential: By enabling substantially larger yields, better and more resistant crops, and new hybrids to be produced, the technology is expected to cause a new worldwide "green revolution" in agriculture, and to contribute substantially to the reduction of food and other plant production problems, particularly in less endowed areas of the world.
Marketing Category: The technology has been fully tested in field and laboratory modes, and production of an industrial prototype is imminent. It will be exploited by the company for its own account by setting up and operating irradiation facilities across the world. In parallel, the technology can be also licensed to international seed companies for their own production and marketing.
Costs and Limitations: The process is very cost effective. The only known limitation on its application is the increase in agricultural inputs (water, fertilizer, etc..) that may be required by the larger and better quality yields.
Alternatives Process: No other similar technology exists today. The nearest process would be in genetic modification, an already very controversial field, which is much less versatile, and where expected results are far less dramatic.
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