A NEW biological foliar treatment, proven to enhance nutrient use efficiency, boost crop yields, and decrease reliance on artificial fertilisers, is being launched this spring.
Based on seed treatment TIROS, TARBIS is a foliar-applied treatment suitable for potato crops, comprising a combination of endophyte strains that enable seedlings and mature plants to fix nitrogen, sequester phosphorus, potassium, and zinc, and better withstand drought stress.
It is being launched to the market by biologicals specialist, Unium Bioscience.
Director John Haywood said it can increase yield by maximising biological nutrient availability and use efficiency, building more robust crops which to handle abiotic stress.
“The technology has undergone peer review at the University of Washington and NASA Ames Research Park, and it has been tested in trials on the International Space Station. Subsequently, independently conducted trials in the UK have consistently shown that treated crops require less artificial fertiliser,” he said.
