by Deac Jones | Jun 13, 2018 | Biostimulants
No Longer Business As Usual It’s no longer acceptable to take a “business as usual’ approach to agricultural practices. Whether you’re a believer in manmade climate change or not, high temperatures and drought conditions are issues we’re increasingly having to...
by Deac Jones | Jun 12, 2018 | Biostimulants
It’s not just humans and animals that suffer when the mercury rises. Plants feel the heat, too. Heat stress is a major issue in agriculture, as it can significantly reduce crop yield and quality. Even small increases in temperature or short episodes of high...
by Deac Jones | May 30, 2018 | Soil Metabolism
“Viruses seem to be parasites by nature. So one would conclude, therefore, that their ability to reproduce must be affected by changes produced in the metabolism of the host plant caused by variations in nutrition,” Bawden and Kassanis (1950). This makes a lot of...
by Deac Jones | May 23, 2018 | Biostimulants, Foliar Fertilizers, Plant Metabolism
Soil applications of nutrients are necessary and the most common practice in crop fertilization, but it has many limitations with respect to nutrient bioavailability for plants. Plants use different inorganic nutrients in addition to CO2 and water for their growth and...
by Deac Jones | May 16, 2018 | Microbes, Soil Biology
Plants produce all kinds of chemical signals in response to their environment. These signals, both airborne and through the soil ecosystem, can be picked up by like plants or even eavesdropped on by other plants, especially when the plant is under attack by insects or...
