Boost yields by optimizing sugar distribution

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Improving how sugars move through plants can lead to stronger growth, better nutrient use, and higher yield potential.

Maximizing plant productivity is top of mind for most farmers. One of the most effective ways to improve plant efficiency and output is to optimize its ability to transport key nutrients, like sugars from leaves to critical growth areas that directly impact yield and quality.

The movement of sugar within a plant is one of the key factors to enhancing productivity and increasing yield.

By increasing the nutrient uptake and accelerating the movement of sugars to areas of plant growth and development, like flowers, seeds and roots, farmers can take their yield potential to the next level.

Power plant productivity

The ability to naturally boost sugar movement within a plant can be easily achieved using biostimulants.

A category of biological crop protection products, biostimulants like Sugar Mover™ Premier enhance a plant’s natural physiological processes, like improving the distribution and uptake of nutrients from the source (nutrient development) to the sink (area of plant that requires nutrients to develop and grow). Biostimulants can increase nutrient efficiency, helping plants improve the use of sugars and promoting the growth and development of key areas of the plant that contribute directly to yield and quality.

By enhancing the naturally occurring elements and hormone levels, including boron and cytokinin, and providing key nutrients to the plant, Sugar Mover Premier accelerates the transport of sugars produced in the leaves through photosynthesis to yield-boosting growth areas. Sugar Mover Premier is a foliar application that can be easily tank mixed and used to support nutrient uptake and movement in canola, lentils and peas.

Boron supports sugar circulation

Boron is a chemical element that primarily influences plant growth factors, including root elongation, tissue differentiation, pollen germination, pollen tube growth, and cell membrane functions. Boron facilitates the transport of sugars through plant cell membranes, also known as translocation. It is also essential for cell wall synthesis and cell division – both key factors that impact the quality and yield of the plant.

Sugar Mover Premier provides supplementary boron to plants to help ensure that the sugars get to where they need to go by keeping the transport channels in the plant strong. Additionally, boron uptake plays a critical role in delivering pollen for successful fertilization.

Cytokinin stimulates growth

Cytokinins are a class of plant hormones that promote cell division, or cytokinesis in plant roots and shoots. They are necessary for cell growth, promote flower development and prevent premature senescence. Cytokinin is a key component in Sugar Mover Premier, utilizing natural plant hormones to enhance cell growth to promote larger, more robust seeds and boosting flower production for increased yield potential.

Plant sugar movement explained

The terms sources and sinks are often used to describe the movement (or translocation) of plant nutrients, including sugars, from the sources they are produced through photosynthesis in the leaves, to areas where they are used within the plant for growth and development.

Source

The source is the area of the plant where nutrients (sugars) that are necessary for plant growth are created. This is also known as the photosynthetically active part of the plant. These areas are typically mature leaves that produce more sugars than they need, so they transport them through the plant to the growth areas that need them the most, a sink.

Sink

Sinks are any non photosynthetic parts of the plant that don’t produce nutrients (sugars) at all, or not enough, but require sugar to support their growth or storage needs. These key plant areas are roots, shoots, flowers and seeds. The sinks in the plants use sugars for immediate use and store the rest for metabolic needs. These primary plant sink areas are also the most important organs that generate plant yield and quality.

Fueling canola with Sugar Mover Premier

Take a look at how Sugar Mover Premier can boost crop productivity and yield potential.During the flower development stages of plants, like canola, lentils, peas and soybeans, cytokinin enables the leaves (source) to photosynthesize longer. This prolongs the flower’s fertilization period and improves plant nutrient uptake that results in productivity and increased yield potential thanks to the enhanced flow of sugars to the flower (sink).

The seed formation stages of the crops are just as important for yield too. At this stage the leaves (source) start transporting sugars to the seeds (sink). Providing additional boron uptake improves the plant’s ability to improve sugar distribution at this key development stage that will ultimately promote uniform seed development.

Looking for more information about enhancing sugar movement to boost yield? Contact a Biological Innovation Manager today.