MUMBAI, India, Aug. 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517074665 A) filed by Fuji Pigment Co. Ltd.; and GS Alliance Co. Ltd., Hyogo, Japan, on Aug. 6, for 'fertilizer composition.'

Inventor(s) include Mori Ryohei.

The application for the patent was published on Aug. 29, under issue no. 35/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a fertilizer composition which is taken up by a plant to be cultivated to thereby accelerate the growth of the plant and which can cause the emission of fluorescence from the cultivated plant upon the irradiation with light; and a method for cultivating a plant efficiently using the fertilizer composition. Provided are: a fertilizer composition comprising 100 parts by mass of nitrogen-containing carbon oxide quantum dots, 0.1 to 1000 parts by mass of a phosphorus compound, and 0.1 to 100 parts by mass of a potassium salt; and a cultivation method including a step for feeding the fertilizer composition to a plant and/or a cultivation medium. The nitrogen-containing carbon oxide quantum dots are preferably graphene-based quantum dots having a nitrogen-containing functional group and a carbonyl group. The amount of nitrogen atoms and/or the amount of oxygen atoms is preferably 0.1 to 60 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass."

The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 10, 2023, under International application No.PCT/JP2023/040586.

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