Environnemental
Technologies Fondation Inc.
COMPANY INFORMATION,
TECHNOLOGY
CONTENTS PAGE
Company
Information 2
* Environmental Technologies
Foundation Inc. (ETF)
Technology
1 Definition of SET™ 4
2 Applications
- Forestry 4
- Mining 4
- Salinity 4
- Long Term
Benefits 5
3 Benefits of Using SET™ 5
4 Competitive Advantage 6
I ETF Plant
Propagation System 6
- Key Features 6
- Technical Details 7
Ii ETF Tree Evolution Technologies 7
- Technology #1: Spontaneous Evolution
Technologies (SET™) 7
- Technology #2: Cell Fusion 8
-
Technology #3: Hormone Treatment 8
Iii ETF Microshoot Grow Out Technology 8
- Technology #1: Unique Bio-Plug 8
- Technology #2: Growth Promotants 8
5 Conclusion 9
6 Other Areas of Interest 9
- Selective
Breeding 9
- Mass Production
of Elite Trees & Plants 9
- Crops &
Flowering Plants 9
COMPANY
INFORMATION
Environmental Technologies
Foundation Inc. is Forestry Biotechnology Company.
The working premises are
located in the
ETF has developed a revolutionary
total plant production system called Spontaneous Evolution Technology (SET™),
invented for large-scale commercial mass production of “purpose built trees”.
This means that ETF can
engineer trees that have specific characteristics that can provide the
solutions to global problems such as deforestation, land degradation, salinity,
pests and diseases.
ETF does not use any
genetic engineering, i.e. introduction of
During the last eighteen
(18) months the ETF team has completed a review of all their scientific and
research data. This has led to a greater
understanding of the intellectual and commercial implications of these revolutionary
technologies. Hence, steps are underway
to legally protect the company’s intellectual property through patenting.
TECHNOLOGY
1 Definition of SET™
Spontaneous Instinctive, automatic, natural, innate, pattern of
behavior.
Evolution A series of partial or complete and irreversible
transformations of the genetic composition of species, based principally on
altered interactions within their environment.
Technologies The study of mechanical arts and applied
science. Their
applications in industry.
2 APPLICATIONS
ETF’s revolutionary SET™
technologies are unique and have potential applications across a myriad of
industries with enormous benefits commercially, environmentally and
socio-economically.
Forestry
·
Faster
growth
·
Disease
resistance, stronger, more suitable characteristics
·
High
volume mass propagation systems
·
Cost
effective
·
Mining
·
Positive
environmental impact
·
Replanting
of degraded soils due to heavy metal contamination
·
Use
of “tailings” for water supply
·
Revaluing
of devalued land
Salinity
·
Ability
to effectively replant salt affected or high water table lands using timber
species propagated to thrive in these conditions
·
Long
term solution of replanting catchment areas with deep-rooted trees on saline
affected soils, ultimately lowering the salinity of the soil and reducing
losses of previously arable land
·
Boosting
farm incomes and wood production
Long term benefits exist in
·
Positive
taxation implications for all areas listed above
·
Positive
environmental effects
o Reducing carbon emissions
o Reducing saline affected previously
arable land
o Offsetting costs against carbon credit
incomes
·
Reforestation
of devalued land
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Providing
company benefits
o Providing local employment
o Providing local training and upgrading
of skills
3 Benefits
of using SET™
SET™ technology can provide on-going
solutions for problems faced within the Forestry industry throughout the world.
Specifically it can:
·
Mass
propagate seedlings
·
Custom
design plants specifically for naturally existing environments
·
Custom
design plants with increased pest and disease tolerance
·
Design
plants that grow up to 30% faster than existing crops
These abilities have a flow
on effect in:
·
Lower
plantation preparation costs
·
Lower
planting costs due to stronger plants
·
Lower
maintenance costs, i.e. pruning, thinning and fertilizing
·
Options
for harvest times dependent on financial requirements of the company/industry
·
Biodiversity
amongst plantations
·
Positive
environmental effects
o Planting of custom designed native
species
o Which encourage natural bird and
wildlife
o Thereby alleviating political problems
with native inhabitants
o Improving topography of the region
·
Developing
a strong carbon credit industry
4 COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
SET™ utilizes the natural
potential that the tree and its close relatives have. This avoids the problem of public
acceptability regarding genetic modification of plants. SET™ does not utilize genetic
engineering of trees with foreign
A distinct advantage that
SET™ has is that the technology cannot be reverse engineered. This means other microbiologists cannot copy
the technology. Steps are currently underway to patent the system.
Most crops used for human
food are genetically elite varieties selectively bred over thousands of
years. They are often nearly
unrecognizable when compared with their primitive ancestors.
ETF exploits this potential
and accelerates the growth of the selection of genetically elite plants using a
combination of smart technologies.
Environmental Technologies Foundation Inc. Plant Propagation System
This system is a unique, low
cost system for mass production of identical trees.
Coupled with our tree
evolution technologies, the result is a highly efficient way of supplying elite
trees, which are:
·
Purpose-designed
for specific desired characteristics
·
With
stable and consistent characteristics
·
In
very large numbers
·
Much
faster, and
·
At
substantially lower costs.
These are all benefits that
current competitors cannot offer.
Key Features
Key features of the ETF
Plant Propagation System are:
·
A
unique, low cost, sophisticated growth support which has been developed over
four years;
·
Optimized
gas exchange around the growing microshoot – a distinct advantage over other
competitors systems
·
No
requirement for expensive high sterility facilities
·
A
robust, compact system with low equipment costs.
Technical Details
Tissue culture has been used
for more than fifty (50) years to cultivate improved plant varieties. These varieties are multiplied by
micropropagation.
The Plant Propagation System
incorporates breakthrough technologies, developed so that we can mass-produce
trees rapidly and cost-effectively.
Tissue Culture: Plants have
the useful property of being able to regenerate entire plants from a single
cell, or from a small segment of a plant.
Tissues can be taken from a plant, separated into individual cells that
are grown in the laboratory as a cell mass, or callus, then induced to
regenerate back into whole plants.
Alternatively cuttings can be used.
The growth of plants in the laboratory, supplied with nutrients and
favorable conditions is “tissue culture”.
Micropropagation: The
production of multiple copies of a single plant using tissue culture or other
sophisticated techniques.
II Tree Evolution Technologies
Technology #1: Spontaneous Evolution Technologies (SET™)
For over four years ETF’s
scientific team have been combining knowledge originating from disciplines
encompassing horticulture, hydroponics, plant genetics and physiology, tissue
culture and biotechnology to develop a state of the art process, now trademarked
as SET.
Our studies have focused on
improving the propagation and growth characteristics of forestry trees on a
genetic level, whilst utilizing no genetic engineering processes.
Basically, our process
revolves around the principle that every plant has the ability to evolve via
genetic adaptation/amplification when the correct stimulus and/or environment
are forced. Just as in normal evolution,
this genetic variation arises from changes such as point mutation, alteration
in chromosome number or structure, deletion, transposition, or methylation or
demethylation of
Please refer to the Science Appendix and Paulownia document for more information.
Technology #2: Cell Fusion
ETF’s cell fusion technology
allows the rapid development of hybrid plants, i.e. accelerated breeding. As our Spontaneous Evolution Technologies
(SET™) rely on selecting and enhancing pre-existing desirable traits, cell
fusion can introduce new genetic sources from unrelated species. Desired traits in the hybrids can then also
be selected and enhanced using SET™.
We fuse “protoplasts”, plant
cells denuded of their outer wall, to develop novel plants with improved traits
such as salt tolerance.
The trees and plants
produced in this way have twice the complement of genetic material and
therefore provide significantly higher genetic variation as a starting point
for exploiting SET™.
Technology #3: Hormone Treatment
ETF uses plant hormones or
hormone like molecules to speed up the rate of genetic change. This allows for ease of control.
III Microshoot Grow-Out Technology
An essential part of the
process is optimizing the grow-out of the desired seedlings (plantlets). ETF has extensive experience in perfecting
this technology.
This is an extremely
technically difficult stage of growth, and has thwarted many other company’s
attempts to mass propagate plants.
This stage is traditionally
costly, being labor intensive, making clone plantlets financially
uncompetitive. ETF technology can reduce
this cost considerably.
Technology #1: Unique Bio-Plug
ETF has spent four years
researching and developing a unique plant-supported “Bio-Plug” which optimizes
access of the growing plantlet to oxygen and nutrients. These Bio-Plug’s are
critical to our success in plant propagation.
Technology #2: Growth Promotants
Fledgling trees are nurtured
using tailored combinations of growth promotants and nutrients.
5 CONCLUSION
The combination of the above
technologies gives ETF a major competitive advantage in rapid mass-production
of elite trees.
The grow-out stage has
defeated many other companies attempts to mass-produce
plants. We have overcome this obstacle
and have the knowledge and experience to consistently mass-produce varieties
generated using our tree evolution technologies.
These technologies allow ETF
to produce tree plantlets cost effectively.
6 OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST
Selective Breeding
This system can be readily
adapted to select for different characteristics, e.g. pest or disease
resistance, growth rates, or tolerance to other stressors.
Most forest tree species
have undergone little or no domestication.
Their genetic systems are still in the wild state. Smart tree breeding can potentially have a
greater impact than with long-domesticated plants such as fruit trees or crops.
Mass Production of
Elite Trees and Plants
ETF’s system is of great
value even when the traits desired make it difficult to design a way of
selecting the best progeny.
Starting with an elite
parent tree or other plant, we can mass-produce plantlets that are genetically
similar to their parent, but with increased vigour.
Crops and Flowering
Plants
Somalclonal variation and
micropropagation are being used all over the world to generate new varieties of
crops and other highly domesticated plants. These include:
·
Salt
tolerant sugar cane, rice and wheat
·
Higher
yielding cocoa
·
New
varieties of houseplants and flowers
·
Rice
with improved disease resistance and amino acid content
·
Improved
Brassica (Swedes and mustard greens)
·
Better
bananas
·
Tomatoes
resistant to bacterial wilt.
The ETF system can be
readily adapted to many other types of plants.
Summary
ETF’s major focus for the
past four years has been the development of a revolutionary total plant
production system called Spontaneous Evolution Technology (SET™) invented for
large-scale commercial mass production of ‘purpose built trees’.
This means that ETF can
engineer trees that have specific characteristics that can provide the
solutions to global problems such as deforestation, land degradation, salinity,
pests and diseases.
ETF does not use any
genetic engineering, i.e. introduction of
Contact SUPERIOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
REPRESENTING
Peter
Kimberley, CEO OF ETF.
Email
superiorview@netlifestyles.com
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