Biological demand Extended Efficiency Fertilizer

昆特伦理工大学可持续园艺研究所将把其园艺专业知识与朗讯生物科学公司合作。探索专有的天然载体系统的价值，该系统将植物营养素保留在根区，并可根据植物的需求提供。这种载体有可能防止在洪水和灾难性天气事件期间粮食作物所需的营养物质的损失，这些事件通常会将营养物质从根区浸出。载体的天然组成避免了标准螯合微量营养素的一些不足。该项目将评估在3种不同作物类型的各种条件下，载体在园艺介质中的寿命，每种作物对代表性微量营养素锰浓度范围的反应，并将其作用模式与行业标准螯合锰进行比较。气候变化的挑战将为能够为农业和景观行业保持营养的天然营养载体带来重大价值。 朗讯将受益于ISH的专业知识，以解决早期肥料产品开发的挑战，KPU将受益于扩大其与当地行业合作的能力。学生和新毕业生将受益于参与支持气候变化适应能力的应用研究的机会。

The Institute for Sustainable Horticulture at Kwantlen Polytechnic University will bring its horticultural expertise to partner with Lucent Biosciences Inc. to explore the value of a proprietary natural carrier system which retains plant nutrients in the root zone and available as the plant demands. Such a carrier has the potential to prevent loss of nutrients required by food crops during flooding and catastrophic weather events which normally leach nutrients out of the root zone. The natural composition of the carrier avoids some of the shortfalls of standard chelated micronutrients. The project will evaluate the longevity of the carrier in horticultural media under various conditions with 3 diverse crop types, the response of each crop to a range of concentrations of a representative micronutrient, Manganese, and compare its mode of action to industry standard chelated Manganese. Climate change challenges will bring significant value to a natural nutrient carrier able to keep nutrients in place for both the agriculture and landscape industries. Lucent will benefit from the expertise at ISH to address early fertilizer product development challenges, and KPU will benefit from expanding its ability to work with local industry. Students and new grads will benefit from the opportunity to participate in applied research in support of climate-change resilience.****