Growth Promoting Effect Study
In addition to their growth effects in animals, plant extracts also act as growth promoters in crop growth. For example, plant biostimulants stimulate plant growth, but do not provide direct nutrients like fertilizers and do not act as pesticides. It does not directly affect plant diseases, pests, or weeds, and is not a plant hormone or plant growth regulator. It is with this background that Lifeasible provides technical services to our clients in the study of how plant extracts affect crop growth. We offer optimal solutions for the development of plant extracts from humic acids, algal extracts, protein hydrolysates and amino acids, chitin, chitosan and its derivatives, microbial agents, and more.
Humic acid
Humic acid as a biostimulant promotes plant growth mainly by enhancing the development of the plant root system. We can provide you with the extraction and preparation of natural and artificial humic acids, as well as help you prepare humic acid fertilizers using ammonification, complexation, urea complexation, and complex decomposition reactions.
Seaweed extract
Seaweed extract can regulate the metabolism and physiological functions of crops, promote the growth of crop roots, increase biomass and thus improve crop yields, alleviate pests and diseases, prevent abiotic adversities such as frost and drought, and also have a certain effect on the improvement of crop quality. We can provide you with seaweed fertilizer preparation services by chemical hydrolysis (i.e., potassium hydroxide hydrolysis), physical extraction, and biological fermentation (i.e., enzymatic degradation). Seaweed fertilizers are most effective when the active ingredients of the seaweed are kept in their original state.
Protein hydrolysates and amino acids
By absorbing and transporting protein hydrolyzed amino acids and small peptides, plant roots regulate plant metabolism and physiological and biochemical reactions, promote seed germination and root development, enhance nutrient uptake, and improve plant resistance and thus crop yield.
- We can help you prepare and produce protein hydrolysates using enzymatic hydrolysis. The protein hydrolysis thus obtained is carried out by protein hydrolysis enzymes, which are milder than acids/alkalis and do not require high temperatures. They usually target specific peptide bonds, resulting in combinations of amino acids and peptides of different lengths with low salinity and consistent composition.
- We can provide you with amino acid composition and content analyses.
Chitin, chitosan, and their derivatives
Chitin is a component of the shells of marine crustaceans and the cell walls of many fungi, chitosan is a product of deacetylation of chitin, and chitooligosaccharides are degradation products of chitosan. Chitin, chitosan, and their derivatives act as biostimulants to enhance nutrient uptake, promote root development, enhance plant photosynthesis, regulate crop growth, and induce plant disease resistance by increasing plant cell permeability. We offer extraction services for chitin, chitosan, and their derivatives using chemical and biological methods.
Microbicides
Microbicides are a group of beneficial fungi and bacteria enriched with specific microbial organisms, which can increase the supply of plant nutrients or promote the growth of plants through the life activities of the microorganisms contained in the microbicides to improve the quality of agricultural products and agro-ecological environment. Through isolation and screening of resistant strains, we can develop complex microbial fungicides, which can help you to apply them to plant growth disease prevention, and straw degradation at an early stage.
Why Choose Us?
Biostimulants are widely used due to their wide range of sources and functions, and Lifeasible helps you to better utilize them in all stages of plant growth and development. Please feel free to contact us with any project you are interested in and we will do our best to make it happen.
※ For research or industrial raw materials, not for personal medical use!