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Overall plant size is an important trait in many commercial crops. Plants with larger leaves could be beneficial in all leafy vegetables, while trees that grow larger would certainly be more productive for the lumber and paper industries. Larger root systems allow plants to be more effective at nutrient and water uptake from the soil, thereby adding to their overall productivity.
The pictures below show two examples of our technology yielding larger aspects of certain crops. The leaves show a control plant cutting on the left and a cutting from a plant enhanced with our technology on the right. These cuttings were taken after four weeks of growth.
The root system picture also shows plants of the same age, with wildly different root structures. The plant on the left is a control with roots that are minimal in relation to the roots of the plant enhanced with our technology. The roots were analyzed after eight weeks of growth.
These examples of increased size are a result of overall increased growth rates. By ensuring that a plant is not negatively impacted by the stresses constantly affecting it, we have shown that the plants not only grow larger but also more quickly. This could be commercially significant in a wide variety of crops which have limited growing seasons. Crops which grow more quickly will enable people to harvest their crops more quickly and with less risk of damage from the environment.
The picture below shows one of our tomato plants on the left and a control plant on the right. After being grown under identical conditions for 9 weeks, it is apparent that our plant is considerably larger.
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