Effect Filazonite on the yield of corn with Fusarium disease

One of the main goalsFilasonite technology, when using specially selected bacterial strains, is the mobilization of soil nutrients to ensure their availability to the plant. Another important goal in using these soil bacteria is to improve or restore soil life in a biologically clean and environmentally safe way, so that the soils can be used in the long term and sustainably to produce quality food or feed.

The expectation of farmers to increase yields is understandable. Increasing productivity is one of the "additional" benefits, but it is not the only and not always the main goal. The use of these bacterial fertilizers allows plants to achieve higher yields and at the same time increases the safety of the crop.

THE INFLUENCE OF PHILAZONITE ON FUSARIOSIS

Fusariosis is a fungal disease that occurs in the stage of plant development (especially with a sharp change in temperature (warming) and with a large amount of precipitation). The fungus infects the plant, generates a negative impact on the vital activity of plants, and thus reduces the quantity and quality of products.

Fungal diseases can develop only on weakened plants that are unable to resist the assimilation of heavy metal salts. This process occurs in soils with insufficient bacterial environment due to damaged root receptors. With the restoration of the bacterial environment in the soil, the root receptors are also restored, which prevents the assimilation of heavy metal salts by the plant, thereby preventing infection with fusarium.

The disease occurs not only on vegetative plants,but also on plant remains that rot instead of decomposition. This unfavorable biological process can be prevented (reversed) thanks to the use ofPHILAZONIT biodestructor, as with its help decomposed plant remains do not serve as a breeding ground for viruses, pests and other diseases.

For many years, experiments were conducted with the help of Filazonite technology.

Our Hungarian partners, in field experiments conducted in 2016 and 2017 at the Botanical Garden of the Agricultural Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (in the city of Martonvasar, Hungary), infected two species of Fusarium (F. verticillioides. F. graminearum) during the combined treatment of corn seeds and tested the effect of the restorative drug on soil.

Fig. 1. Average yield (t/ha) of small plots on surveyed corn cultivation
I. control (untreated) (K), II. bacterial fertilizer (K+Phil.), III. F. verticillioides (FV), IV. F. verticillioides + bacterial fertilizer (FV+Phil.), V. F. graminearum (FG), VI. F. graminearum + bacterial fertilizer (FG+Phil.).

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In 2016, the yield on the untreated control plots was 9.5 tons per hectare, the yield on the plots treated with the soil inoculant Filazonite exceeded 1 ton more (10.54 t/ha, Fig. 1.).

In the case of fields, infected with two fusarium species, it is noticeable that the plots treated with bacterial fertilizers Filazonite also gave 1 t more yield (per hectare) compared to the average yield of plots infected with Fusarium verticillioides.

The plots infected with Fusarium graminearum experienced significant stress due to fungal damage, and in this case the increase in the plots treated with the bacterial preparation was 0.1 tons.

Results were similar in 2017. Compared to the average yield of the control plots, the plots treated with the bacterial fertilizer also showed an increase in yield of more than 1 t. Compared to the average of the plots infected with the two Fusarium species, this year the increase in yield per hectare in the plots treated with the bacteria was about 1 t.

The research results presented here support our view that the bacterial fertilizers is not only an indispensable tool for sustainable, ecologically clean agriculture, but in addition to many positive effects, it helps to achieve the expected economic results.

Official acts and reports of conducted experiments