Patent ID: 8872136
Filing Date: 2014-10-28
Classification: A01M

Abstract:
1. A substantially non-invasive low-energy low irradiance non-mutating method for eradicating a plant in a time under one minute, using a Rapid Unnatural Dual Component Illumination Protocol (RUDCIP) with illumination about said plant, said method comprising: [1] An above-ground foliage and root crown damage illumination component comprising exposure to near-IR radiation directed to any of a foliage of said plant and a root crown of said plant, said near-IR radiation of irradiance E [2] A ground-penetrating UV-A illumination component, comprising exposure to UV-A radiation directed to any of a root crown of said plant and a soil grade immediately adjacent said root crown; said UV-A radiation of irradiance E said above-ground foliage and root crown damage illumination component and said ground-penetrating UV-A illumination component each having said exposure times T said RUDCIP Band specification comprising a Red River Crabgrass ( where L is lethality effectiveness expressed in fraction of plants dead in 30 days, such that L is greater than zero and equal to or less than unity: said RUDCIP Band specification further specifying that said UV-A irradiance E said RUDCIP band specifying further that said near-IR irradiance E