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About Pro Seed Subdirectory
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Brief History As with many of the great inventions, the use of Molecular Impulse Response (MIR) technology to enhance seeds was a chance discovery by its inventor, W.C. Levengood. What is makes this breakthrough so exciting is that MIR is performed during the normal processing of the seed and does not involve the use of chemicals or moisture. The seed is actually stimulated to produce beneficial antioxidants that assist the seed in tolerating environmental stresses. MIR technology is being marketed under the registered trademark Stress-Guard™. The nature of MIR technology lends itself well to mass production. Pro Seed Technologies, Inc. (PST), the owner of the technology and patent rights, is seeking to work with seed companies to treat seed on which they can conduct their own field trials in the 2001 season. We intend to license the MIR process itself on a royalty arrangement to a few select accounts. PST would license the patent and technical expertise and assist the seed company in procuring and setting up the equipment to treat the seeds. Licensees treat the seeds themselves and pay PST a percentage royalty based on dollar volume of sales of treated seed. PST will continue to conduct research to further refine the process, and share such data with licensees. Two newly developed areas of opportunity include treatment of unsold soybeans so that they can be sold the following year instead of dumped, which is the current practice due to poor storage life. The second recent development includes offering a new, non-genetic technology to seed companies at a time when their primary modern technology, genetic engineering, is rapidly falling out of favor with consumers, grain wholesalers, food companies, and farmers. |
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