How to protect our crops from the cold with the help of biostimulants? In recent weeks, our production area has been hit by sudden and continuous drops in temperatures that have caused considerable damage to greenhouse crops. As is plausible, cold damage does not materialize immediately and instead becomes more and more important and visible with the passage of time. The stress that the cold causes to the plants is conditioned by considerable intrinsic and extrinsic factors to the plants themselves, an example is above all the physiological state of the plant, the genetic characteristic of the ..read more

The impact of “coat protein-mediated resistance to viruses” in applied plant pathology and basic research. All over the world, plant viruses cause serious reductions in production yield and in some cases even the death of the plant. The development of virus-resistant crops through traditional breeding can take many years and in some cases it is not even possible. This topic highlights the significant changes made to research on basic plant pathology and applied to commercial food production accumulated over the past 30 years. In the current period, the attention paid to the problem of virus in ..read more

Chitosan, (Chitosan plus – InagroUp), an element that is becoming essential both in defense strategies and in plant nutrition. What is Chitosan plus – Inagro? It is a natural, non-toxic substance and is widely used in organic farming with specific nutritional and defense purposes. Chemically it is a polysaccharide extracted from the chitin of crustaceans, which appears to be the main constituent of the integument that covers insects, but can also be found on the cell wall of fungi. This has the ability to improve and / or develop those so-called resistance phenomena of plants towards various h ..read more

Why is it important to create the best conditions for rooting? And how are these optimal conditions created? We will explain it to you immediately. The root is one of the main organs of plants, it performs various functions such as the absorption of water and mineral salts which are transported to all the other organs and tissues of the plant, the anchoring to the soil, acts as a reserve organ of nutritional materials and production of hormones such as cytokinins and giberellins. A plant that has a good root system (healthy and well developed) is certainly a plant that is able to better overco ..read more

The mild climate of Pachino allows tomatoes to be grown all year round, but when the temperatures drop, the plants could be exposed to particular pathogens. One of the pathologies that we encounter in greenhouse tomato crops in this period is radical suberosis (pyrenochaeta lycopersici), a fungal pathogen that prefers cold climates. Foto 2. Attacco della suberosi radicale con alternanza di zone malate e zone sane | Foto 3. Radici soggette a un attacco grave Infections are mainly localized on the root system, the plant manifests a general collapse, with reduced vegetative development, wilting a ..read more