PRO-PRIMER™
2-0-0
Benefits
- Contains 17% Plant-Derived Carbon
- Organically chelate nutrients with a High CEC and chelation ability of over 500 meq.
- Carbohydrates are the most abundant class of organic compounds found in plants.
- Unlike synthetic chelators, fulvic acid chains can be absorbed right into the plant.
- Fulvic acids help to build biomass.
- Prevent insoluble or bound elements.
- Blends well with liquid starter fertilizers.
- A balanced nutritional supplement with soluble carbohydrates, Pro Primer™ complex and simple sugars are directly utilized by beneficial microorganisms.
- Under stress conditions, carbohydrate supplies are beneficial in providing the plant with needed fuel for continued growth.
- Pro Primer™ will enhance root zone bacterial activity.
- It will help seeds absorb more moisture leading to faster, more vigorous germination.
Biofortification & Soil Priming
Drought Priming
1. Drought priming at earlier stages effectively alleviates drought stress during the later stages of growth (Selote and Khanna-Chopra 2010).
2. Drought primed plants were more tolerant to oxidative stress.
3. Priming has improved plant defenses by activating genes for faster and stronger transcription in response to stress (Conrath et al. 2015).
Cold Priming
1. Studies have demonstrated that cold priming can efficiently improve plant tolerance to low temperature stress (Thomashow 1999; Li et al. 2014).
2. Cold priming could contribute to the stabilization of cell membrane against low temperature stress (Iba 2002).
Waterlogging Priming
1. Primed plants could maintain higher chlorophyll content, greater photosynthesis capacity and enhanced light use efficiency (Li et al. 2011).
2. Enhanced stress tolerance to later waterlogging stress by priming was also reported by Wang et al. (2016).
3. Roots are the first to sense the hypoxia under waterlogging.
4. Waterlogging leads to hypoxia, consequently, promotes early senescence of leaves, death of seminal roots, restriction of adventitious root length, affects carbohydrate metabolism, and overall reduced growth (Tan et al. 2008; Herzog et al. 2016).
Abiotic Priming
1. Abiotic priming could even stimulate cross-tolerance to the later-occurred other abiotic stresses. (Wang et al. 2015).
2. Lower energy dissipation in relation to non-primed plants (Wang et al. 2015).
3. Priming can facilitate the accumulation of soluble sugars and hereby reduce damage later under stress such as cold stress.
4. Active transcription of genes which was supposed to be as one of the potential abiotic stress memory markers induced by priming (Conrath et al. 2015).