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Download PDF The great scientist Sir Isaac Newton is credited with saying ‘Nature is pleased with simplicity’ and that may be holding true for a new seed treatment, derived from plants, that’s able to enhance crop germination and establishment. CPM discovers how it’s doing this. The signalling peptides in Newton stimulate root and shoot growth. By Lucy de la Pasture Advances in the understanding of how plant cells communicate with each other to ‘organise’ the plant’s metabolic responses has led to the development of a new naturally-derived biostimulant seed treatment. Named after one of the most influential scientists in history, Newton could set a new parameter for seed treatments this autumn as it becomes commercially available for the first time, believes Interagro technical manager Stuart Sutherland. The understanding of signalling in plants has been playing catch up. Interest in the role of small peptides in plant signalling has been overshadowed by research into the influence of non-peptide hormones, such as auxin and cytokinin, even though in mammals the important role of peptide hormones, such as insulin, has been acknowledged for almost a century. Over the past decade that has changed, and the role of peptides in the hormone cascade is…
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