Holistic Nutrition for Plants and People
Nutrition Farming Podcast
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The Role of Detoxification Proteins in Plant Health
Many farmers have noted an incongruous scenario where they sometimes see an increase in insect pressure following the use of an insecticide. Can you explain the pathways for that particular phenomenon? Yeah absolutely yeah so you know plants they're rooted in the ground and when they encounter stressful situations of course they can't move or run away. The stress response induces protein breakdown that liberates and frees up free lots of amino acids free amino acids which is what insects have a high preferential feeding for. So one of the opportunities here to help farmers deal with this is if you again include a source of amino acids with your pesticides.
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