Unlocking the potential of your crops with bio-stimulants
The unpredictability and extremities of the UK climate, and challenging soil conditions, are being addressed with a new range of natural, biological crop stimulants from British biotechnology company AminoA Ltd.
Improved yields and quality, with an enhanced shelf life for produce, can be achieved with the timely application of AminoA bio-stimulants, providing plants with greater resistance to stress conditions, whether brought about by drought, heat or waterlogging.
“By stimulating the plants own defences, our products mean reduced fungicide applications are required,” explains AminoA managing director, Richard Phillips. “The bio-stimulants also encourage better nutrient flow through the plant, leading to more even growth and a more uniform crop, such as even tuber size in potatoes.”
Mr Phillips adds, “Better calcium mobilisation reduces diseases such as blossom end rot, internal brown spot in potatoes, and cavity spots in carrots. Our products can also achieve significant frost tolerance in soft and top fruit crops at flowering if applied before a frost event, by lowering the freezing point of the cell cytoplasm.”
AminoA products are natural bio-stimulants, obtained through enzymatic hydrolysis. Containing essential amino-acids that plants synthesise throughout their growth cycle, they can contribute positively to yield and quality if the plant is not already producing optimal levels of amino-acids itself.
Having launched its original product, AminoA FLO in July 2017, the biotechnology company has achieved tremendous results through a series of independent and replicated trials. Suitable for use on fruit and vegetables, AminoA bio-stimulants have been used worldwide, on all crops from cereals and vegetables, to pineapples and bananas!
Manufactured in the UK, AminoA has formulations for both conventional agriculture (AminoA FLO) and fully approved for organics (AminoA GRO).
“Our products are deliberately designed to have broad spectrum activity, and will produce a yield and quality response, despite challenging growing conditions,” concludes Mr Philips.