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Throughout the course of a plant’s life there are periods of productive growth and periods of dormancy. This dormancy is often in response to stresses on the plant such as diseases, pests and environmental factors. To ensure maximum productivity, commercial agriculture attempts to minimize the inefficiencies caused by these stresses. Our technology has proven useful at doing just that.
Our research has yielded substantial data to prove our theory that our patented and patent pending genes act at a critical point in the process of cell death. We have shown that by modulating the expression of these genes we can increase plant size, increase seed yield, increase shelf life of perishable produce, increase growth rates and reduce the harmful effects of a wide variety of environmental stresses.
Other technologies have been used to attempt to make commercial agriculture more efficient through biotechnology. We believe that our technology has the following inherent competitive advantages over other technologies:
• our genes are present in all plants, meaning there is no addition of foreign genetic material necessary to implement our technology;
• the activity of our technology is focused at the critical point after ripening but before senescence, meaning that taste, texture and other consumer traits which have been negatively affected by competing technologies will not be affected by the use of our technology;
• using our technology leads to a wide variety of beneficial traits;
• our technology is incorporated at the seed level, thereby avoiding the use of chemical applications to the final product, which will benefit the growers and consumers.
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