ComCat WP 100g

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ComCat WP 100g

Brassinolide (BL) is the most bio-active form of the growth-promoting plant steroids termed brassinosteroids (BR’s) that represent the sixth class of plant hormones.

KEY BENEFITS:

Is a wettable powder formulation that can be applied foliar to crops.
Compatible with most agricultural remedies (pesticides and fertilizers).
Is an environmentally safe natural product that can be used in organic agriculture.

ACTIVE INGREDIENTS:

Element	Content (mg/kg)
2,4-Epibrassinolide	0.3

KEY FUNCTIONS:

BR’s can protect plants from various environmental stresses such as moderate heat, cold, drought, salinity, heavy metal and herbicidal injury (Sasse, 1999).
Moreover, BR’s act as regulating agents involved in vitamin E production that indirectly protects cell membranes against free radical damage, especially during drought stress.
BR’s are also involved in crop growth and development, especially root development, via cell elongation and division.
It is further known from the literature that BR’s play a role in flower bud development as well as the optimization of crop yields.

DOSAGE:

1g per 1 litre of water.

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HOW DOES COMCAT WORK?

To understand how ComCat helps the development of plants, it’s worth knowing what factors dictate (or inhibit) growth in the first place.

Plants react to their environment, and the signals they pick up are communicated at a genetic level where specific enzymes are created and activated for specific purposes. The signals can be positive or negative, and they include things like the amount of light, oxygen, heat, and disease to name a few. So, in the presence of positive signals such as light, growth enzymes are activated. On the other hand, if plants are exposed to adverse heat or cold, resistance enzymes are put to work.

The enzymes tell specific parts of plants how to react. And if it’s a sunny day, they’ll tell the root cells to multiply and the leaf cells to photosynthesize. The opposite happens if the environmental signals are inhibiting growth. But what if we could help plants increase their ability at both stages?

INCREASING STRENGTH AND SPEED
Enter ComCat. The organic compounds it’s made up of promote growth by speeding up the rate at which cells divide and replicate. This works for positive and negative signals; which means ComCat can increase potential yield and the natural resistance of plants to disease.

During growth, ComCat stimulates bud formation and root growth. This results in more nutrients being absorbed through the soil and more flowers (that become fruit).

The active compounds in ComCat act in a synergistic fashion to promote growth and development. Additionally, ComCat induces resistance towards abiotic and biotic stress conditions in plants and assists them in overcoming mild stress conditions during the growing season. The growth promoting and stress inducing mechanisms of action of ComCat have been elucidated to a large extent on morphological, physiological, biochemical and molecular biological level. The following summary supplies an overview of its action mechanisms:

ComCat promotes growth of seedlings by regulating mitosis in meristematic tissue, thus stimulating root and coleoptile growth.

ComCat also stimulates flower bud formation leading to more flowers and higher yields.

Importantly, ComCat has a membrane energising function regulating the transport of sugars from the source to the sink. Initially sugars are trans-located from the leaves to the stems (storage organs) and ultimately to the fruit. ComCat enhances the process leading to significant yield increases.

Further, ComCat induces the synthesis of Pathogenesis Related (PR) proteins, such as peroxidase, glucanase, lypoxigenase and b-1,3-chitinase, by expressing the genes respectively. These PR-proteins prevent fungi from infecting the plant and therefore increase the natural resistance of crops to biotic stress.