The extensive use of biostimulants in the modern agriculture is growing fast in the European countries as well as in other areas of fruit and horticultural crops of important economic value.
The European definition for a plant biostimulant is claim-based, meaning that it is the function of the product, not its composition, that defines it as a plant biostimulant.
For this reason, proving biostimulants effect is an important element to allow it to be recognized in the EU market. Biostimulant effects are often translated into claims that have value for farmers, such as yield increase or improved crop quality.
Although the benefits of biostimulants for farmers have to be proven in field conditions, the understanding of their mode of action is normally better assessed in small scale trials under controlled conditions. The aim of this presentation is to show different case studies of trials performed for regulatory purposes of some amino acid-based biostimulants in various regions such us France, Morocco and Spain on high-value export crops (strawberry, cucumber and tomato).
In all of them, the benefits of Terra-Sorb® Foliar, an amino-acid based biostimulant, were elucidated through the induction of plant resistance against abiotic stresses, improving plant vigor and yield, by increasing chlorophyll content and photosynthetic efficiency.

Anna BottaProduct Manager at Bioiberica

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