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CropBioLife's
flavonoids make a world of difference when building climate resilience.
CropBioLife: Helping farmers build greater crop resilience to extreme weather & climate.
Helping your crop build resilience is all in the flavonoids.
CropBioLife's flavonoid-based formula provides a practical solution for farmers dealing with climate-related stressors. The active flavonoids in our foliar spray support crucial plant functions such as signalling, hormonal regulation, and stomatal control, contributing to efficient photosynthesis and nutrient use.
Additionally, the formula encourages healthy root exudation and positively impacts soil health. This creates a more favourable environment for nutrient absorption, enabling plants to withstand and recover from climate-related stresses more effectively.
CropBioLife offers a reliable approach to enhancing plant resilience against extreme climate conditions.
THE STRATEGY
We've put together integrated spray protocols to help your crops build greater resistance to climate stressors.
1 —
Integrate CropBioLife into your Spray Program
CropBioLife is designed for simplicity and can be integrated into your existing spray program easily.
2 —
Spray CropBioLife per the Protocols.
Our protocols are simple and easy to follow, allowing for your crops to easily build climate-stress resilience, among other plant & soil health benefits.
3 —
Let the flavonoids help your plants.
Flavonoids are amazing compounds and have an amazing ability to help a plant through severe stress events. Read on below to understand the science behind it.
Stress
Recognition
Plants indeed sense abiotic stresses, including heat stress, and respond by activating several defense mechanisms. One such response involves the accumulation of secondary metabolites, including flavonoids, that have roles in stress mitigation.
Hormonal Signalling
& Gene Expression
Flavonoids are known to interact with various hormonal pathways in plants. They can influence the expression of genes that help the plant cope with various stresses. While the exact genes and pathways might vary depending on the stress, the general principle holds.
Antioxidant
Activity
This is a primary and well documented role of flavonoids. Under stress conditions, plants produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) that can damage cellular structures. Flavonoids help in scavenging these ROS, thereby protecting cells from oxidative damage. This protection is crucial during heat stress when ROS production can increase.
Enhanced
Photosynthesis
By reducing oxidative stress, flavonoids help in preserving the photosynthetic machinery in plants. Photosystem II, a component of the photosynthesis process, is particularly sensitive to stress-induced damage. Protecting this ensures photosynthesis continues efficiently.
Improved Root
Exudation
Plants release various compounds, including sugars, amino acids, and other organic compounds, into the soil. These compounds can indeed attract and stimulate beneficial microorganisms. Flavonoids also play roles in plant-microbe interactions, although the primary context here is usually plant-legume interactions.
Soil Health
Recovery
Beneficial microorganisms can aid in nutrient cycling, making nutrients more available to plants. The relationship between flavonoids and this process is indirect: by promoting healthier plants that exude more beneficial compounds, flavonoids can indirectly support these beneficial microbial communities.
Nutrient Uptake
and Utilization
Healthier plants, with better-rooted structures and more active cellular processes, are indeed better equipped to absorb and utilize nutrients. While flavonoids play a role in this by promoting overall plant health, the direct link between flavonoids and nutrient uptake is more nuanced.
Plant Recovery
and Resilience
Flavonoids, by playing all the aforementioned roles, contribute to improving the overall resilience and health of the plant, enabling it to withstand and recover from various stresses, including heat stress.
The Science
The Science:
In Detail
Plants encountering climate stressors like excessive wet weather, heat, and frost undergo a range of physiological responses that can adversely affect their health. CropBioLife's flavonoid-enriched formula aims to fortify plants against these challenges.
Hormonal Signaling: The flavonoids in CropBioLife interact with plant hormones such as abscisic acid (ABA) and auxins. These interactions are crucial in managing the plant's growth, development, and stomatal activity, vital for effective water and gas exchange under varying climatic conditions.
Antioxidant Activity: Flavonoids serve as antioxidants, neutralising reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced under stress. This protective mechanism preserves cellular structures and essential processes like photosynthesis and respiration, crucial under conditions like heat and frost stress.
Gene Expression Regulation: CropBioLife's flavonoids influence the expression of stress-responsive genes. These genes encode proteins involved in defences like detoxification and antioxidative processes, helping plants to activate their internal defence mechanisms efficiently.
Enhanced Root Exudation: Effective photosynthesis, facilitated by flavonoids, leads to increased production of sugars and other organic compounds. These compounds are then released into the soil via root exudation, attracting beneficial microbes and improving soil health.
Nutrient Uptake and Utilisation: The subsequent improvement in soil health allows for better nutrient absorption, making plants more resilient and better equipped to withstand a range of climate stressors, including excessive wet weather, heat, and frost.
CropBioLife's flavonoids provide comprehensive support for plants facing various environmental stressors. Through hormonal regulation, oxidative stress mitigation, gene expression modulation, and improvement of both soil and plant health, CropBioLife helps plants recover more effectively from climate-induced stress.