INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
SETTING STANDARDS
FOR SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE
We work closely with growers to understand their needs and develop economically and environmentally sustainable solutions. Whether you’re looking to increase abiotic stress tolerance, nutrient use efficiency, or crop quality, our biostimulants are designed to meet your specific productivity challenges.
Explore our range of biostimulant solutions.
Maximise Crop Yields and Minimise Nitrogen Use with PSI® 362 Precision Technology
PSI® 362 Precision technology helps farmers optimise the yield of their grass, wheat, barley, and other crops. This allows for a reduction of up to 25% of nitrogen (N) use without any yield penalty or changes in farmer practice.
The Economic & Environmental Impact of Nitrogen
Nitrogen (N) is the most important macronutrient used in agricultural systems to enhance crop yields. Excessive nitrogen use in farming not only increases costs but also leads to environmental pollution. It is critical to address this issue while still maintaining & maximising crop yields to feed the growing global population.
Improving Nutrient Efficiency & Crop Performance
PSI® 362 helps crops utilise nitrogen more effectively, reducing the need for excessive nitrogen fertilisers without compromising yields. This allows farmers to optimise yields while lowering their costs and minimising the environmental impact of farming.
Anywhere you see the PSI® 362 Precision technology mark, we have confirmed that this product contains specific bioactives that help improve NUE within the plant in real field conditions.
Reducing Environmental Loss, Enhancing Economic Gains
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Suitable for the Following Crops:
Grass
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Barley
Wheat
Fostering Stronger Healthier Crops
Environmental Pressures & a Growing Population
Climate change, land scarcity and intensive systems put pressure on conventional agriculture. With that comes increased pressure from society & government on more sustainable systems. Furthermore, changes in weather have major impacts on production with more varying & extreme conditions. These pressures create a need for greater yield & greater quality to feed growing populations.
Trusted Performance & Predictable Results
Elevating Crop Quality & Marketable Yield
Enhanced °Brix content is a well-known factor reflecting sweetness, which will influence the degree of marketability of the harvested crop and the final acceptance by buyers and consumers. Over the past several years, Brandon Bioscience has conducted a significant number of trials looking at the effect of our solutions with PSI® Technology in enhancing this functional fruit quality marker. In these trials we consistently saw improved °Brix content in different fruit and vegetable crop species of up to 20%, representing an additional benefit to the observed crop yield enhancement.
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Suitable for the Following Crops:
Tree Fruits
Tree Nuts
Soft Fruits
Vegetables
Grapes
Cereals
Securing Food Supply in a Changing Climate
PSI® Technology solutions help increase and optimise the defences found within the plant making them more tolerant and reducing damage that might be incurred on quality and yield. This helps make the plant stronger and increases their ability to grow normally even when conditions are sub-optimal.
The Impact of Extreme Weather Events
Climate change is significantly impacting food security. With rising temperatures and extreme weather events such as heatwaves, abiotic stress in crops is common. Abiotic stress has a negative impact on important plant activities, such as seed germination, plant development, respiration, photosynthesis, and reproduction (i.e. flowering and fruit set), which leads to reductions in plant growth and crop yield.
A Compatible Solution that Maximises Results
Our solutions with PSI® technology contain targeted bioactives focused on solving abiotic stress problems. With more bioactives per litre, our products further increase retention of marketable yield under abiotic stresses such as heat, cold, salinity & drought. Growers can rest assured that our products provide maximum results on yield & quality with minimum impact on ways of working.
Anywhere you see the PSI® Technology mark, we have confirmed that this product contains specific bioactives that increase tolerance to abiotic stress.
Enhanced Fruit Set & Yield in Harsh Environments
To target the negative effects of periods of high temperatures during the important reproductive stage, we evaluate the potential of our PSI® solutions in improving fruit set in tomato plants under both unstressed (27/22°C) and heat stressed conditions (31/24°C). Our biostimulant solution not only increased total fruit number under unstressed conditions, providing also higher fruit yields under chronic heat stress conditions. This retention of crop productivity was obtained increasing the number of flowers and activating thermotolerance responses that improve the fraction of pollen viable and guarantee post-pollination processes such as pollen tube growth or fertilisation (see Carmody et al., 2019).
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Suitable for the Following Crops:
Tree Fruits
Tree Nuts
Soft Fruits
Vegetables
Grapes
Cereals
Promoting Healthy Growth with Soil Salinity
Growers can produce high-value fruits and vegetables in salinised soils with the help of PSI® 475 Precision Technology. By improving the plant’s tolerance to salt and enhancing water retention, this technology leads to greater yields and improved marketable quality, giving growers the confidence and reassurance to meet their production goals.
The Impact of Salinity on Crop Production
One of the major abiotic stresses affecting crop production in arid and semi-arid areas is salinity. Most high value fruit and vegetable crops are sensitive to salt and are growing in salinized soils that have accumulated toxic ions such as sodium (Na+) and chloride (Cl–). This ion accumulation in the root zone is often caused by limited access to high quality water in irrigation programmes.
The Smart Solution for Salinity
PSI®️ 475 Precision Technology improves salinity stress tolerance in plants by accumulating osmoprotectants like proline and sucrose, which actively help plants to retain water. Additionally, PSI®️ 475 Precision Technology upregulates the expression of sodium (Na+) transporters genes, restricting Na+ translocation from roots to leaves, and promotes potassium (K+) accumulation in roots. It allows the maintenance of higher K+/Na+ ratios in both leaf and root tissue, which is known as a key predictor of salinity stress tolerance. These specific tolerance responses to salinity stress are complemented with additional benefits at the biochemical level (e.g., photosynthetic pigments and soluble protein content). This helps plants to retain crop growth, productivity, and quality under salinity stress conditions.
Anywhere you see the PSI® 475 Precision Technology mark, we have confirmed that this product contains specific bioactives that help improve yield under salt stress conditions.
Maximising Fruit Yield on Salinity Stressed Plants
The induction of salinity stress tolerance by the biostimulant PSI®️ 475 Precision Technology is characterised by the activation of well-established plant responses at phenotypical, physiological, biochemical, and molecular levels (see Ikuyinminu et al., 2022). Our data shows that PSI®️ 475 Precision Technology increased crop marketable yield in a trial series with tomato and pepper. These vegetable crops were subjected to a saline irrigation water programme over twice their maximum EC threshold (ECw = 5-6 dS/m) throughout the crop growth cycle. The observed marketable yield benefits (+26% on average) also closed the fruit yield gap in salinity stressed plants by more than 50%.
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Suitable for the Following Crops:
Tree Fruits
Vegetables
Systemic Action to Tackle Pod Shatter
PSI® 759 Precision Technology helps farmers maximise yield and buys time without compromising on yield by allowing full ripening of pods without shattering. As a result, this provides a new level of harvest flexibility for farmers through delayed harvests and variety choice as well as a wide application window and improving field hygiene for the following rotations.
Growers risk losing up to 25% of Annual Yield
Soybean & Oil Seed Rape (OSR) crops develop dry fruits that shatter along a specifically developed junction on the pod. The pod shattering junction provides an efficient, and successful seed dispersal mechanism for the plant but it can limit crop yield for growers, with average yearly seed losses at 15-25%.
Enhancing Yield & Security for Growers
PSI® 759 Precision Technology is associated with increased pod shattering resistance. PSI® 759 Precision Technology utilises a novel combination of plant signaling biomolecules, that naturally programme the plant to modulate the expression level of major genes regulating pod dehiscence, delivering maximum yield and security. PSI® 759 Precision Technology is one of the first biostimulant products in Europe approved under the EU Fertilising Products Regulation (FPR) 2019/1009 and carries the CE mark on all product packaging (Read more about CE certification here)
Anywhere you see the PSI® 759 Precision Technology mark, we have confirmed that this product contains specific bioactives that reduces pod shatter through a physiological mode of action.
Buys Time Without Compromising on Yield
Our data shows that one single foliar spray of PSI® 759 Precision Technology improves the pod shattering resistance in different OSR varieties (see Łangowski et al., 2019). Results obtained in independent field trials showed that PSI® 759 Precision Technology increased pod shattering resistance through the standardised random impact test (RIT). This improvement was associated to the downregulation of INDEHISCENT (IND), the master regulator gene responsible for pod shatter in OSR. Overall, PSI® 759 Precision Technology has been tested in more than 90 field trials in OSR and soybean, increasing seed yield on average by 5%.
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Suitable for the Following Crops:
Soybean
Oil Seed Rape
Promoting Optimal Water Use Efficiency
PSI® 433 Precision Technology promotes optimal plant growth and yield where water availability is low. By supporting optimal water use efficiency, growers can ensure that their crops have the resources they need to grow and thrive.
Water Shortages, a Constant Threat for Growers
Water shortages can pose a significant challenge for fruit and vegetable production. These crops require a consistent and adequate supply of water for optimal growth and yield. In many regions, however, water resources are limited, and droughts can exacerbate this problem. They are often faced with long periods of water shortages which negatively impact yield and fruit composition.
Water Use Efficiency Technology
PSI® 433 Precision Technology is associated with Water Use Efficiency. PSI® 433 Precision Technology utilises a novel combination of plant signaling biomolecules, that improve water uptake, retention and use efficiency for greater marketable yield development under water deficit conditions (either because of significant agricultural drought stress or the implementation of a deficit irrigated program).
Anywhere you see the PSI® 433 Precision Technology mark, we have confirmed that this product contains specific bioactives that improve water use efficiency.
Overcoming Water Deficit Conditions to Protect Crops
High levels of soil moisture deficit (SMD) can have adverse impact on plant photosynthesis, respiration or reproductive organs, leading to significant marketable yield losses. Plant relative water content (RWC) is a useful physiological marker that can be used to determine the water use efficiency of the crop. A more positive RWC indicates a higher degree of water retention. PSI® 433 Precision Technology improved the RWC status of treated potato plants throughout a season characterised for a significant agricultural drought. Potato plants were less affected by water deficit conditions, increasing marketable yield by 16.1% versus the untreated control.
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Suitable for the Following Crops:
Tree Fruits
Vegetables
