Innocence Vs Experience

In a world full of cloudy beauty. I stand up to part the sky.

Monday, April 17, 2006

Million dollar challenge

Ok, so hypothetically speaking, we now have the perfect controlled test for growing plants, now what?
Even if you were a grand master in Reiki, wishing one batch of plants to grow faster is not going to work. After some investigation, I realize that the best chance of this experiment working would to firstly understand the biology of a plant and possibly how it may be manipulated to grow. Fundamental basic need of any photoautotroph plant is use of inorganic compounds to produce energy. So back to high school of photosynthesis, what we can physically control is water, light, air. The rest is left up to the plant generally. From what I have gathered, Nicotinamide adenile dinucleotide (NAD) and Flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) are essential to the anabolic metabolism and aerobic respiration. These two types of molecules are found in the carbon reduction equation, if you didn't know that, probably just means you have a life. So theoretically, if you could increase the production of these two, you would have a healthier stronger plant? It would produce more sugars. I think that is the bottom line.
Next question on my mind is 'How'. How can I alter the molecular structure of the two elements? What do they need to thrive and survive?
It's a begining. I've got 80 seedlings planted in my room at the moment. When they germinate, a friend will pick 30 shoots and supervise them according to the conditions suggested. Batch A will have no 'treatment' batch B will have a visit from me every other day, and batch C will have long-distance 'treatment'.