Restructures the rhizosphere microbiota’s metabolism by activating the bio-energetic processes that increases the adaptivity of agricultural ecosystems to biotic and abiotic stress factors.
Period of protection: The effect of Albit treatment (three times 250 ml/ha) lasts up to 1.5 months
Additional information: Albit is not phytotoxic.
Additional information about the form of treatment: not available.
Conclusions:
- The All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Floriculture and Subtropical Crops in the course of the field experiments found a positive effect of treating kiwi plants with Albit TPS. As an evidently multifunctional agent, Albit caused a wide range of positive effects on the Actinidia deliciosa agrobiocenosis, increasing its resistance to phytopathogens (Phytophtora cactorum), the activity of the rhizosphere non-pathological microorganisms and the yield of the plant.
- The high protective effect of the agent was registered under abnormally high precipitation even for a subtropical zone. The most efficient form of treating is in the early stage (less than 11.5 percent) phytophthora in Deliciosa is three sprays of 250 ml/ha of Albit. When introducing Albit into the soil the most efficient dose is 500 ml/ha (three times). This dose of Albit was as the most efficient chemical fungicide (three treatments), i.e. the efficiency was 70-71 percent at a reference disease of 22.8 percent.
- Albit’s ability to improve the phytosanitary state (infection background) of soil is a very important advantage of the formula. By introducing 500-1000 ml/ha Albit in the kiwi plantation soil we reduced the number of Phytophtora cactorum conidia in the soil by 52-56 percent.
- Albit did not only inhibit pathogen growth in the soil, it also increased (at 500 ml/ha) the biological activity of the soil microbiota – the actual, potential, and bacteria breathing rate. Albit restored the microbiotic activity of the kiwi plantation soil up to the natural unaffected level (forest level), while the chemical fungicide quite the opposite dramatically reduced the microbiotic activity of the root zone and its resistance to potential infections. We found that Albit improved the phytosanitary and ecological parameters of the agricultural ecosystem, stimulated non-pathogen microflora in the kiwi rhizosphere, and increased the agricultural ecosystem’s resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses.
- Maximum yield of Actinidia deliciosa was achieved by spraying the plants with 250 ml/ha of Albit and introducing the formula in the soil at the same time. The yield was 2.9 centner per ha higher than at the reference field.