PLANT PRIMING

The Future of Sustainable Agriculture

Our technology platform has demonstrated its ability to act as an elicitor, which activates the plant’s innate immune system; thereby triggering a process known as priming. This natural mechanism enables a plant to utilize its’ own immune system and defensive genes to defend itself against pathogens and stress.
Raveendran Pottathil
Chief Technology Officer, Zero Gravity Solutions, Inc.

Technology Basis

What is plant priming?

Priming is a natural adaptive response mechanism that activates a plant’s innate defenses to boost its ability to withstand abiotic and, ultimately, biotic stresses.

Just as a vaccine can prepare humans to quickly combat a disease, induced priming can elicit or stimulate a plant's natural responses to withstand future stresses caused by challenges from the environment and the presence of pathogens.

Priming elicitors are compositions of natural key elements, which provide a positive plant stimulatory response that increases a plant’s resiliency to stressors and thus increases agricultural productivity and yield while also supporting sustainable production practices and regenerative agriculture.

Expanding the use of priming elicitors will make commercial agriculture and home gardening more sustainable by enabling plants to reach their natural biological growth potential and by minimizing the need for additional inputs (e.g., fertilizer, crop protection chemicals, etc.). Our priming products neither harm the soil nor directly affect any organism (e.g., soil microbes, beneficial insects, etc.) and act only by activating and stimulating innate natural plant responses to enhance crop yield.

Benefits

A sustainable solution to
global agriculture production challenges

Maximizes plant growth potential on declining arable land base

Enhances crop yields and quality

Reduces yield loss by optimizing a plant’s innate response to abiotic and biotic stress factors (e.g., drought and disease)

Helps reduce production inputs through improved nutrient use efficiency

Provides a non-GMO solution to optimize plant productivity in organic production programs

Supports sustainable agricultural production processes

Improves crop ecosystem management through enhancement of natural growth potential

What Makes Us Different?

How our Technology is Unique

Our proprietary priming technology platform maximizes plant performance and yield by eliciting (stimulating) a plant’s natural immunological capabilities, thus enhancing stress-reduction, supporting plant metabolism and nutrient absorption, and boosting defense responses.
In addition to enabling plants to achieve greater yield and quality, the use of our plant priming technology enhances a plant’s innate ’natural’ response to environmental stressors such as drought and plant diseases.

Technology Leader in Plant Priming

The mechanism of action (priming) that defines our technology and subsequent elicitor compositions and formulations allows us to enhance crop yields while supporting the use of sustainable farming practices and tools.
Our solutions help combat an increasing number of production agriculture challenges around the world. Challenges such as nutrition deficiencies, yield robbing diseases, drought stress, declining arable land base, insect pressure, and overreliance on increased levels of crop protection and fertilizer inputs presents us with a unique opportunity to become a market leader in the quest for sustainable agricultural technologies that will advance our food supply and improve farming productivity.

Expandability & Optimization

We are in the process of advancing the development of new product compositions and formulations, and analytical tools to guide differential application rates and timing. With proper application and timing, we are observing that through enhanced plant vigor and nutritional bio-availability response, the plant unlocks natural growth potential (yield and/or quality) and, in doing so, increases resistance to environmental stressors such as drought and disease, with the potential for reduced rates of crop protection and fertilizer inputs. Because we boost a plant’s natural resiliency and resistance to stressors, these products have a biostimulatory, non-pesticidal effect and are not subject to costly and lengthy pesticide regulatory approval processes.
One important example of a new product that has resulted from our recent research is the development of a dry formulation that is suitable for seed treatment applications. Early testing indicates that this product is highly effective and efficacious when applied as a seed treatment, enabling expanded potential for broad acre applications in a variety of row crops.

Mechanism of Action

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Proven Results

Consistent Performance

Replicated field trials and multi-year validations completed on a wide variety of crops, climates and soil conditions worldwide have consistently demonstrated the enhanced value (ROI) and efficacy of using BAM-FX as part of a grower’s standard program. Higher profit margins are achievable through increased yield and crop value, the ability to salvage crops that would otherwise have to be destroyed, and the potential savings from lower use of other crop inputs.

Observed Curative and Preventative Effects to Major Plant Diseases

Our innovative priming elicitor technology has been shown to increase crop yield by enhancing and optimizing a plant’s natural response to environmental stressors including in the presence of common plant-pathogens, some of which currently have no effective natural treatment or solution, such as:

  • Citrus Greening (Oranges)
  • Xylella fastidiosa (Olives)
  • Collar Rot (Pigeon Peas)
  • Bacterial Blight (Pomegranates)
  • Red Blotch and Leaf Roll (Grapes)
  • Coffee Rust (Coffee)

Let’s Grow Together!

We are actively seeking commercial partners to assist in the advancement of our latest priming elicitor compositions and new formulations, as well as the expansion of our existing portfolio through new investors, distributors and product integration partners.

Current Products

Features & Benefits

Observed results and independent lab analyses from field trials on a large variety of crops worldwide have demonstrated:

  • Increased nutritional uptake efficiency

  • Increased plant vigor and growth response

  • Increased crop yield and quality improvement

  • Higher seed germination rate and seedling establishment

  • Increased resiliency to plant diseases