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Is there a role for biostimulants in floriculture?
There is a lot of interest in the use of biostimulants to enhance plant growth, nutrient uptake and stress tolerance. Unfortunately, we have very little information of how these products work and under what conditions they have a positive, neutral or even negative effect on plants. In this presentation, we will discuss experiments we did to test biostimulants in greenhouse tomato and chrysanthemum to see if they could compensate for decreased fertilizer levels, induce resistance against pests and/or protect against root diseases. Overall, we saw that results were crop- and even variety-specific. Metabolomic analysis of plant samples helped us determine which processes were activated inside the plants to try and explain the results. Overall, we confirmed that it is possible to obtain good results with biostimulants but that results should not be generalized in assuming that it will work in all crops and production systems. |
