Improving strain quality and traceability in bio-fertilizer products

已知许多土壤有机体能促进植物生长。其中最突出的是丛枝菌根真菌（AMF）。这些生物与大多数陆地植物和农作物的根部相关联，从而改善它们对磷酸盐和硝酸盐等营养物质的获取，从而促进它们的生长。由于它们对植物产量的许多有益影响，全球公司现在专门生产基于AMF的接种物，用于有机农业实践。RISEHoP是一家在该领域正在崛起的加拿大公司，以MYConnect品牌生产一种新的生物肥料，其中含有一种无法竞争的AMF菌株（Rhizoglomus irregulare）。该菌株是由RISEHoP的专业科学家从田间分离出来的，在植物生长方面表现出优于竞争对手所使用的菌株。该菌株的质量和独特性为RISEHoP在高生长绿色行业提供了显着的竞争优势。RISEHoP和Corradi实验室之间的合作将为该公司提供机会，使用基于DNA的标记物在田间和“内部”量化和跟踪他们的新AMF菌株，并将使该公司能够识别可用于寻找新的最佳AMF菌株的新菌株，这将进一步增强他们的新农产品。

A number of soil organisms are known to enhance plant growth. Prominent among those are the arbuscularmycorrhizal fungi (AMF). These organisms associate with the roots of most land plants an crops, therebyimproving their acquisition of nutrients such as phosphate and nitrate and thus improving their growth.Because of their many beneficial effects on plant yield, global companies now specialize in the production ofAMF-based inoculum to be used in organic agriculture practices. RISEHoP is a rising Canadian company inthis field that produces a new biofertilizer under the brand MYConnect, which contains an AMF strain(Rhizoglomus irregulare) not available to competition. This strain was isolated from the field by specializedscientists at RISEHoP and was shown to outperform those used by the competition in terms of plant growth.The quality and uniqueness of this strain provides RISEHoP a significant competitive advantage in thishigh-growth green industry. The collaboration between RISEHoP and the Corradi lab will offer the companyopportunities to quantify and trace their new AMF strain in the field and "in house" using DNA-based markers,and will allow the company to identify new strains that could be used to find novel optimal AMF strains thatwill further enhance their new agroproducts.