Plants Helping Plants

Plants Helping Plants

The ambition of agriculture to do more with less presents some real challenges to growers, but help is on the way. Plant biostimulants are any substances or microorganisms applied to plants with the aim of enhancing the efficiency of nutrient use, increasing abiotic stress tolerance and/or improving crop quality. Unfortunately, increasing reliance on agrochemicals has caused damage to groundwater resources, soil fertility, soil biodiversity, and the environment. But biostimulants offer a means to create better balance in our farming practices.
Many growers are familiar with the benefits of applying, for example, seaweed extracts to their crops or the key substances of one plant being shared with another to generate improved results. This direction, plant essences of one plant being used on another, offers a way of doing more with less.

Silicon Fortified Plants

Silicon Fortified Plants

Despite its abundance—second only to oxygen in Earth’s crust—Silicon is still overlooked in many crop nutrition programs. It’s not yet classified as an “essential” nutrient for most plants, but this perspective needs to change or at least shift, given its extensive list of benefits for plants as one of Earth’s core elements.

The Variable Movement of Nutrients Through Plants

The Variable Movement of Nutrients Through Plants

The life of a plant, much like that of any other organism, is intricately dependent on the intake and transport of essential nutrients. These nutrients, absorbed predominantly from the soil, are fundamental to the plant’s growth, development, and metabolic functions.