Aeroponics International's
patent for an Aeroponic method and apparatus, developed
by Richard Stoner, Founder and President, for greenhouse
and nursery crop production. It utilizes an enclosed pulsed application of a
hydro-atomized nutrient mist for rapid propagation of plants from cuttings.
This Aeroponic technology was originally marketed in 1983 by Genisis Technology,
of Boulder, CO. There are over 1,500 installations of the Genisis Aeroponic
technology worldwide. Stoner left Genisis in 1986 and acquired the
patent rights in 1988.
Aeroponic System Advancements
The original Genesis
Aeroponic System has been significantly improved and redesigned for multi-crop
production by Stoner since 1989. The improvements included virtually replace
in-vitro and greenhouse mini tuber and crop production.
Micro propagation specialists
and other plant scientists who have observed this "new generation" of Aeroponic
rapid plant biotechnology, named RPB by Aeroponic International,
concur that it represents a novel and totally new approach to crop production
and research. For example, the implications for the potato industry
utilizing RPB is expected to be 600% to 1400% more productive per sq. ft. compared
to current tissue culture/greenhouse micro propagation.
