BioEnsure, anyone?

[avoide]

Hello everyone,

I just came across this article on the Wired that talks about some fungus researchers found on the Yellowstone Park, that make plants thrive in harsh environments.

The first thing that came to my mind was to use them in conjunction with our beloved plant. They came out with a product called BioEnsure. If Google it their web site is the first one to come up.

Here is a quote from the article, and the link to it will be below.

One day over lunch with colleagues, an argument erupted over whether environments with more diverse plant life are less tolerant of extreme conditions. And so, they went to the most extreme place they could think of to find out the answer: the depths of Yellowstone National Park.
Temperatures there range from 68°F to a scorching 150°F, and geologists had previously classified the soil as sterile. And yet, while in the park, the scientists found that, in fact, some plants did grow there. When they analyzed the plants, the researchers discovered they had been colonized by microscopic fungi and began to question what role the fungi played in allowing the plants to grow.
“It was quite a paradigm shift in the way people view plant adaptation,” he adds. Rodriguez, Redman, and their fellow researchers began to wonder: If this fungi could live within agricultural crops, would it still protect them from harsh climates? In lab experiments, they were able to remove the fungi and found that without it, those very plants no longer could survive in similarly hot conditions. When the fungi was reintroduced, they thrived. “The long and short of it was, though these plants had been in this habitat for a millennia, and had allegedly adapted to the heat stress, it turned out, they weren’t adapted at all,” Rodriguez says. Instead, it was the fungi that enabled the plants to survive.

Link to WIRED

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Didn't know where to post it, so if the moderation feels like moving it, please do.

Take care.

 

[BigBozat]

BioEnsure is basically Trichoderma harzianum... nothing really new here under the sun...
Botanicare ZHO, Home & Garden's RootShield... there a Spanish biotech company (AVance) that makes a T. harzianum product called 3Tac, which is designed to mitigate Botrytis & Fusarium (http://www.avancebt.com/es/producto-3tac/)

Talk to MicrobeMan about what he thinks of Trichoderma.

 

[stoned-trout]

for a minute I thought it was an organic ensure for old folks lol

 

[Mikell]

Definitely not Trichoderma.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichanthelium_lanuginosum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curvularia_protuberata

A separate study, Redman et al.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0014823

 

[BigBozat]

Definitely not Trichoderma.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichanthelium_lanuginosum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curvularia_protuberata

A separate study, Redman et al.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0014823

Thanks for the refs (nice)...
And I retract my glib 'nothing new' remark.

Hmmm... a fungal plant pathogen that causes fusarium wilt & root rot & a fungus with a virus that enables enhanced heat/drought tolerance...

Oddly, the 'Wheat' version of BioEnsure indicates its active ingredient as Trich, (≥ 108 Colony Forming Units per ounce). http://www.kellysolutions.com/erenewals/documentsubmit/KellyData/ND%5CFertilizer%5CProduct%20Label%5CBIOENSURE_WHEAT_0_0_0_1_29_2014_10_47_18_AM.pdf

If they have patent protection, why would they not identify these instead of trich as an [the] active ingredient?

Does it depend on the 'version' (crop)?.. thus, are F. culmorum & C. protuberata only what works for rice?
Continuing: until/unless she develops a version spec. for cannabis..?

*pondering*

 

[Mikell]

I really fucking love how anytime you load something from History in Firefox, it uses your last fucking opened tab.

https://www.collectiveip.com/patents/US20100227357A1

Another patent citing F. culmorum.

Also looks like they cut out a lot of other researchers when they filed for patents, but maybe I interpretted that incorrectly.

http://www.gmeducation.org/governme...up-the-future-of-non-gmo-food-production.html

Mentions Bioensure as a mixture of half a dozen fungi.

http://tech789.com/plant-ecology-leap-good-bacteria-can-be-saved-in-agriculture/

Broken English (Thanks Google Translate?) article, citing negative results with Bioensure. Possibly resulting in a Trichoderma offering for plants that do not perform as well under their standard fungal cocktail.

I think you're right, it probably is plant dependent, perhaps strain dependent. Of the two rice strains used, only one established symbiotic relationship with F. colmorum.

 

[BigBozat]

I really fucking love how anytime you load something from History in Firefox, it uses your last fucking opened tab.

https://www.collectiveip.com/patents/US20100227357A1

Another patent citing F. culmorum.

Also looks like they cut out a lot of other researchers when they filed for patents, but maybe I interpretted that incorrectly.

http://www.gmeducation.org/governme...up-the-future-of-non-gmo-food-production.html

Mentions Bioensure as a mixture of half a dozen fungi.

http://tech789.com/plant-ecology-leap-good-bacteria-can-be-saved-in-agriculture/

Broken English (Thanks Google Translate?) article, citing negative results with Bioensure. Possibly resulting in a Trichoderma offering for plants that do not perform as well under their standard fungal cocktail.

I think you're right, it probably is plant dependent, perhaps strain dependent. Of the two rice strains used, only one established symbiotic relationship with F. colmorum.

Nice info, man! Thanks!

Now to review your cites and see what we can see about what may in their standard fungal cocktail...

 

[Mikell]

Nice info, man! Thanks!

Now to review your cites and see what we can see about what may in their standard fungal cocktail...

I definitely didn't catch much there, maybe in the morning over cafe