Background of the Solar Corridor Concept.

The solar corridor concept's background is sourced in a few basic principles, including; Incident sunlight is an outstanding photo-chemical catalyst for photosynthesis.  Chloroplasts that access solar radiation are distributed from top to bottom of the plant. Genetics matter   Accordingly,   we've proposed a conceptual paradigm shift in how we help high performing corn varieties access and synergistically produce their photo-chemical energy that drives  photosynthesis, in high yielding corn fields. The Solar Corridor Crop System (SCCS) is the synergistic crop system that we are developing from that concept. Our preliminary variety screening trials indicated a very strong hybrid specific preliminary yield response to the SCCS. 21 of our 1st 200 high yielding commercial corn hybrids met both of our  performance criterion to be good candidates for the SCCS. We selected 3, each with  uniquely different phenotypic yield expressions (identified in our yield graphs as hybrids B, C & D) from those 21, for our seminal studies and found each of them to consistently produce as much or more corn in 60 or 72 inch wide twin rows as they produced in state of the art 30 or 36 inch controls, respectively, at 200 bu. yield levels.   Peer research reported the same yields in 60 inch twin rows as 30 inch rows, at different yield levels, different hybrids, & different soils than we used for our solar corridor studies. Kremer's soil microbiological research measured increased labile carbon in corn root exudates associated with active carbon and increased biological activity that could logically result from increased photosynthate production. The crop growing on the vacated corn row, (the solar corridor floor) enables significant multidisciplinary value. Detailing above & discussing it's interdisciplinary implications;  setting the stage for a most informative symposium and calling for scientific collaborarion will be the focus of this presentation.