Composition for and method of stimulating growth of plants, e.g. increase in crop production. The composition comprises a carbon skeleton/energy component, typically a sugar or mixture of sugars; a macronutrient component providing the elements nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and calcium, preferably also magnesium and sulfur; a micronutrient component providing zinc, iron and manganese, preferably also copper, boron, molybdenum and cobalt. The composition also preferably contains a vitamin/cofactor component and an enhancement component. The composition may be in the form of an aqueous solution or in a form suitable for coating seeds or coating pollen. It may be applied as a foliar spray, as a soil amendment, as a root dip or as an injectable solution. Preferably where, for example, it is used as a foliar spray it is applied at intervals at different stages of growth. The method is useful for treating vegetation to promotes plant growth and/or crop production, also for treating pollen, seeds, roots and soil and inhibiting growth of insects and micro-organisms. A formulation including an energy/carbon skeleton component, a macro nutrient component and a micro nutrient component is applied, e.g. in aqueous solution by foliar spraying. This is done in a manner to make optimum use of the inherent ability of vegetation to harvest solar energy and to utilize other sources of energy and carbon skeleton, such that the energy and nutrients applied by the method of the invention is a fraction of the energy and carbon skeleton requirements of the vegetation.
一种用于刺激植物生长的组合物和方法,例如增加作物产量。该组合物包括一个碳骨架/能量成分,通常是一种或多种
糖类的混合物;一个宏量营养素成分,提供氮、
磷、
钾和
钙元素,最好还包括
镁和
硫;一个微量营养素成分,提供
锌、
铁和
锰元素,最好还包括
铜、
硼、
钼和
钴。该组合物还包括一种
维生素/辅因子成分和一种增强成分。该组合物可以是
水溶液形式或适合于涂覆种子或花粉的形式。它可以作为叶面喷雾、土壤改良剂、根部浸泡或注射溶液应用。最好在叶面喷雾等用途时,在不同生长阶段间隔应用。该方法可用于处理植被以促进植物生长和/或作物产量,也可用于处理花粉、种子、根和土壤,并抑制昆虫和微
生物的生长。应用包括能量/碳骨架成分、宏量营养素成分和微量营养素成分的配方,例如通过叶面喷雾的
水溶液。这是以最佳方式利用植被收集太阳能和利用其他能源和碳骨架的固有能力进行的,因此本发明方法应用的能量和营养素是植被所需能量和碳骨架要求的一小部分。