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Download PDF With the use of agricultural inputs under increased scrutiny, standard approaches to crop nutrition are being supplemented by helping the plant to, literally, help itself. CPM finds out how biological technologies are achieving this. Research shows that nitrogen use efficiency and phosphate use efficiency are intrinsically linked, a small change in one can give a big change in the other. By Lucy de la Pasture The 2022 season has sat growers back on their heels and forced an examination of how fertilisers are being used on the farm. With high prices and in the effort to reduce any environmental impacts, particularly where phosphorus is finding its way into watercourses, the focus has turned to increasing the efficient use of nutrients by plants. And it’s an area where there’s a significant opportunity to work both with the soil and with plants, by using biological approaches to improve the way nutrients are both taken up and assimilated, believes John Haywood, director of Unium Bioscience. Historically, the conversation around plant nutrition has been all about meeting the crop’s needs and not depleting soil supplies, that approach has to change to include how much of the applied nutrient is taken up as…
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Download PDF With the use of agricultural inputs under increased scrutiny, standard approaches to crop nutrition are being supplemented by helping the plant to, literally, help itself. CPM finds out how biological technologies are achieving this. Research shows that nitrogen use efficiency and phosphate use efficiency are intrinsically linked, a small change in one can give a big change in the other. By Lucy de la Pasture The 2022 season has sat growers back on their heels and forced an examination of how fertilisers are being used on the farm. With high prices and in the effort to reduce any environmental impacts, particularly where phosphorus is finding its way into watercourses, the focus has turned to increasing the efficient use of nutrients by plants. And it’s an area where there’s a significant opportunity to work both with the soil and with plants, by using biological approaches to improve the way nutrients are both taken up and assimilated, believes John Haywood, director of Unium Bioscience. Historically, the conversation around plant nutrition has been all about meeting the crop’s needs and not depleting soil supplies, that approach has to change to include how much of the applied nutrient is taken up as…
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