Plant husbandry – Process – Soil conditioning
Reexamination Certificate
2005-04-05
2005-04-05
Poon, Peter M. (Department: 3643)
Plant husbandry
Process
Soil conditioning
C047S05810R, C071S011000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06874277
ABSTRACT:
Composition for and method of stimulating growth of plants, e.g. increase in crop production. The composition comprises a carbon skeleton/energy component, typically a sugar or mixture of sugars; a macronutrient component providing the elements nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and calcium, preferably also magnesium and sulfur; a micronutrient component providing zinc, iron and manganese, preferably also copper, boron, molybdenum and cobalt. The composition also preferably contains a vitamin/cofactor component and an enhancement component. The composition may be in the form of an aqueous solution or in a form suitable for coating seeds or coating pollen. It may be applied as a foliar spray, as a soil amendment, as a root dip or as an injectable solution. Preferably where, for example, it is used as a foliar spray it is applied at intervals at different stages of growth.The method is useful in treating vegetation to promote plant growth and/or crop production, also for treating pollen, seeds, roots and soil and inhibiting growth of insects and microorganisms. A formulation including an energy/carbon skeleton component, a macro nutrient component and a micro nutrient component is applied, e.g. in aqueous solution by foliar spraying. This is done in a manner to make optimum use of the inherent ability of vegetation to harvest solar energy and to utilize other sources of energy and carbon skeleton, such that the energy and nutrients applied by the method of the invention is a fraction of the energy and carbon skeleton requiremenets of the vegetation.
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Bozicevic Field & Francis LLP
Field Bret E.
Gellner Jeffrey L.
Poon Peter M.
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