A Sophisticated and Highly impressive approach: Plant genomics tools to predict the function and efficiency of biostimulants

摘要

"We can predict, or confirm at the molecular level, the function of a chemical or mixture of chemicals and this includes the biostimulants. Molecular biology can predict the function -if any- of mixtures of organic chemicals and thus their possible uses. Obviously, this methodology is only effective when the product has a specific action: we cannot confirm that a product is generically "promoting growth". But if -as an example- the product is claimed to be good to protect the plant from pathogens wecan confirm or dismiss this claim". This is basically what was put forward by Pierdomenico Perata, Professor of plant physiology at the famous Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna at Pisa in Italy. His keynote adress, given at the opening session of the New Ag conference in Miami, certainly belongs to the most outstanding lectures even given at a New Ag conference. It showed again that when truly scientific work is there in the background, the business and the market can both benefit as transparency is there, with snake oil products or exagerated claims having no entry!