Drought – planctACTIVE

Drought is one of the main stress factors which affects cultivation throughout the world. Severe drought is a great challenge regarding the survival of the plants, because it influences plant growth and it reduces the quantity and the quality of the harvestable crops.

Plants react with protective mechanisms to environmental stress. To maintain inner hydrostatic pressure (turgor pressure) plants slow down evaporation with cumulating osmoregulatory compounds. Plants minimalize the drastic stress effects of drought with closing their gas exchange pores. Therefore, in conditions of a reduced water source, water transportation is decreased in the plant, which also worsens the quantity and the speed of nutrition absorption.

Plants in water shortage condition can reach less nutrient because if the water source is limited, pores in the soil fill with air instead of water. Thus, the rate and quantity of nutrients coming from the root zone reduces and they are less available for roots.

Applying planctACTIVE technology through leaf-level in case of drought is an efficient solution for nutrient supply. When planctACTIVE is activated, it takes the place of the plant and it manages the life processes hardened by the drought stress, when the plant is unable to control them. Despite the evaporation loss, we will be able to feed the plant from inside and we will not depend on external circumstances regarding nutrient uptake.

Life processes, which help in nutrition absorption for the treated leaves, happen through hydrofoil pores of leaf tissues and gas exchange surface. In case of drought, these are restricted. planctACTIVE microalgae produce and provide all the important biogenic elements, micro-meso-macro- elements, vitamins, amino acids and minerals in a completele, organic form that can be easily integrated by the plant. With planctACTIVE we can cease both the effects of water shortage and the state of nutrient deficiency and we can avoid productivity loss, that would inevitably occur when these conditions are present at the same time.