Cstainable - Crop Enhancement Technology

• During the first week when neither group received CO2 enrichment, the CO2 group (green graph) showed those plants being more CO2 limited and less light limited than the control group (blue graph).
• During the subsequent three weeks when aqueous CO2 enrichment was applied to the treatment group, the green graph went below the blue graph, indicating the treated plants were now less CO2 limited and more light limited than the control plants.
• Cstainable’s aqueous CO2 enrichment technology is proving its ability to enrich plants with CO2 despite being in a venting greenhouse, thus providing a more balanced plant in terms of light and CO2.

Note: When the graph is above 0, the plants are CO2 limited and when the graph is below 0, the plants are light limited.

• During the first week when neither group received CO2 enrichment, the CO2 group (green graph) showed naturally lower photosynthetic capacity than the control group (blue graph).
• During the subsequent three weeks when aqueous CO2 enrichment was applied to the treatment group, the green graph went above the blue graph, indicating the treated plants now had more photosynthetic capacity than the control plants.
• Photosynthetic Capacity is the potential for plants to convert light and CO2 into energy (sugars), which provides growers the opportunity to produce more biomass and fruits with good crop management techniques.

• During the first week when neither group received CO2 enrichment, the CO2 group (green graph) showed naturally lower light use efficiency than the control group (blue graph).
• During the subsequent three weeks when aqueous CO2 enrichment was applied to the treatment group, the green graph went above the blue graph, indicating the treated plants were now more efficiently using the available light than the control plants.
• Light Use Efficiency is a measure of how efficient the plant uses the light that it receives for photosynthesis versus wasting that light energy as heat.
• More CO2 means more of the light can be used for photosynthesis versus producing heat which the plant removes as waste.