Build a Better Plant, Build a Better Yield Robert Jarek … · 2020-06-09 · #WeAre Stoller. Build...
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Build a Better Plant, Build a Better Yield Robert [email protected]
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Stoller Creates Solutions
Solving Grower’s Biggest Challenges Creating More Yield, Quality, and Profit.
Roots are the “Brains” of The Plant
Build a Better Plant, Build a Better Yield.
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Build a Better Plant, Build a Better Yield.
Who is Stoller? We are Excellence in Plant Performance™
What we do:
We are driven to teach and help growers get the most out of the investment they put into the crops they produce, from corn and soybeans to almonds, tomatoes, pineapples and everything in between.
How we do it:We do this by understanding in depth how a plant functions, what a plant needs, and more importantly how to manipulate a plant to achieve desired results.
Our tools to accomplish this:We work with plant nutrition, plant hormones, and other signaling molecules to achieve our growers goals.
“We are dedicated to helping growers understand and naturally enhance the genetic potential of plants.”– Jerry Stoller
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Critical Plant HormonesThere are five key hormones:
1. Cytokinin
2. Auxin
3. Gibberellic Acid (GA)
4. Ethylene
5. Abscisic Acid (ABA)
Understanding Plant Hormones and Growth Effects
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Challenge - Lodging
Understanding Plant Hormones and Growth Effects
Causes:Too much NitrogenHigh WindsPlant is too tallHigh Plant Population
True Cause – lack of cytokinin
Cytokinin ??????
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• Cytokinin (CK)– “Youthful” shoot
hormone– Cell division and
differentiation – Produced in actively
growing tissues roots, embryos, and fruits
– Controls apical dominance and promotes above ground branching and growth.
– Promotes delayed senescence
• Auxin (AX)– The “rooting”
hormone– Cell division and
differentiation, stimulates cell elongation in young shoots
– Produced in apical meristem (growth tip of the shoot)
– Promotes lateral root growth and root branching.
Auxin Moves Downward
Cytokinin Moves Upward
AXCK
Cytokinin and Auxin have an inverse relationship, depending upon ratio within the plant determines
the type of growth a plant will produce.
Understanding Plant Hormones and Growth Effects
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6 varieties – 3-6 Row Varieties, 3-2 Row varietiesResults are similar more leaf mass, and in general a shorter statured plant with thicker stem walls.
Controls on leftTreatment on right
Understanding Plant Hormones and Growth Effects
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Challenge – “Pin” Barley Mid-Grain Development abortion of Grains
Lack of Plumpness
Understanding Plant Hormones and Growth Effects
Causes:Lack of WaterLack of EnergyHigh Temperature
True Cause –Localized Cytokinin Deficiencies
Grains Abort due to 1- lack of energy2- lack of cytokinin to drive cell division
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Stoller Solutions
Understanding Plant Hormones and Growth Effects
X-Cyte + Harvest More @ heading
Sugar Power @ early soft dough
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Challenge – Pre-Harvest Head Sprout
Understanding Plant Hormones and Growth Effects
Causes:High moisture near harvestDelayed harvestIncreased risk with lodged fields
True Cause:High levels of GA in comparison to ABA
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Challenge – Straight Cutting BarleyBarley can be highly variable in moisture at harvest.
Stoller Solution – Sugar Power-Evens harvest moisture
This is showing up in nearly every crop, this treatment has the smallest standard deviation in harvest moisture.
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Apply Sugar Power at Soft Dough.
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Barley ProgramAB InBev
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