Significant early season enhanced soybean development and grain yield with a patented growth promoter technology product

SMITH, STEWART; PENNA, C; DÍAZ-ZORITA, MARTÍN; KOSANKE, J W; OSBURN, R M

Miguel Pereira, RJ. Brasil

Congreso; RELAR 2004 - 22nd Latin-american Conference on Rhizobiology - 1st Brasilian Conference on Biological Nitrogen Fixation; 2004

New soybean growth promoter technology based on the U.S. patents 5,549,718 and 5,646,018 has been developed and commercialized. The natural bacterial promoter compound has been purified , assayed via HPLC, and formulated to provide field efficacious concentrations of approximately 0.000001 % w/v of the active lipochito-oligosaccharide compound. The purified active ingredient has been applied as a liquid formulation to soybean seed at the time of planting. A liquid formulation has been developed based on Cell-Tech® as the carrier for the active ingredient.