Scientists at AltSU and ASAU have developed a way to increase the yield of spring wheat

31 August 2021 Department of Information and Media Communications
Scientists from Altai State University and Altai State Agrarian University have developed and patented a method to increase the yield of spring wheat.

The preparation provides an increase in the yield of spring wheat by the method of chemical modification of waste products of crop production - oat flowering films.

The official site of ASAU specifies that the patent is based on the results of a joint project of two universities - "Development of technology for the production and use of drugs obtained from the products of processing plant raw materials as growth regulators of agricultural crops."

The inventors propose to use an aqueous solution of the preparation in a tank mixture as an adhesive when treating spring wheat crops in the tillering phase against weeds.

“The environmental friendliness and technological simplicity of the method of using the developed preparation can be in demand among agricultural producers. And the use for its production of affordable, and, which is important, cheap local raw materials in the form of waste products of crop processing, in general, will have a positive effect on the environmental situation in rural areas of Altai Krai," notes Mikhail Maltsev, project manager, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of General Agriculture, Plant Growing and Plant Protection of Altai State Agrarian University.

The research involved scientists from the Department of General Agriculture, Plant Growing and Plant Protection, Soil Science and Agrochemistry of Altai State Agrarian University and the Department of Organic Chemistry of the Institute of Chemistry and Chemical-Pharmaceutical Technologies of Altai State University. In 2020, the project received a grant support from Altaypischeprom. The industrial partner of the project was the company "NEO", which sells a wide range of preparations on the market to improve the efficiency of crop production.

In the future, it is planned to create technological lines (installations) for the production of the preparation from plant materials (waste products of crop production). The designed technological lines can be mounted directly on the territory of enterprises that are engaged in the processing of crop products.

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