Building Plant Resilience Against Abiotic Stress
Climate change and environmental pressures are intensifying the challenges crops face worldwide. Abiotic stress factors, including drought, salinity, temperature extremes, and flooding, directly impact plant health, reducing yields and compromising crop quality. The agricultural industry needs effective solutions that enhance plant resilience while supporting sustainable farming practices.
Understanding abiotic stress impact on crops
Abiotic stress triggers complex physiological responses in plants, disrupting normal metabolic processes and compromising their ability to absorb nutrients efficiently. These stress conditions can reduce crop yields in terms of severity and duration, representing billions in lost agricultural productivity globally.
Effective stress reduction requires targeted interventions that support plants' natural adaptive mechanisms. Biostimulants work by activating specific metabolic pathways that help plants cope with adverse conditions, improving their stress tolerance and recovery capacity.
These solutions stimulate natural defense systems and enhance nutrient uptake efficiency during challenging environmental periods.
Benefits of stress reduction for agricultural applications
Stress reduction solutions directly translate to improved agricultural outcomes. Plants with enhanced stress tolerance support consistent yield development and crop quality maintenance. Effective stress reduction supports sustainable agricultural practices by reducing dependency on synthetic inputs like pesticides. Plants with improved stress tolerance require fewer interventions to maintain productivity, contributing to reduced environmental impact.
Roquette's plant-based stress reduction solutions
Roquette has a comprehensive, established portfolio of plant-derived products for plant nutrition and protection. These help customers to provide key nutrients and growth factors, increase nutrient absorption, enhance stress tolerance, improve germination, and stimulate growth while reducing the use of synthetic chemicals. Specific products for formulation, solid- or liquid-based, include:
SOLULYS®: Derived from corn or potato, this product is a source of water-soluble proteins, free amino acids, vitamins, and other natural organic acids (e.g., lactic acid) that aid in growth promotion and stress tolerance of the plant, making it a key ingredient for biostimulant formulations. For example, SOLULYS® is OMRI compliant and available as a liquid product for formulation as a water-based spray or drip.
Roquette's polyol portfolio includes NEOSORB® AG polyol liquid blend, NEOSORB® Sorbitol and Mannitol, derived from plant starches. These compounds function as humectants, stress reducers, and potential biostimulants. These polyols are highly compatible with other bioactive compounds and are used as formulation excipients to help plants resist abiotic stress.
Roquette's plant-based solutions offer significant formulation benefits for biostimulant and fertilizer producers. All products are derived from crops of known orgin and processed under solvent-free controlled conditions, ensuring quality and performance.
Roquette, a global leader in the development and manufacture of plant-based ingredients, has developed a range of plant-derived solutions for plant nutrition and protection, collaborating with external partners and experts to refine products for specific applications, conditions, and crops.