Let’s reveal the active ingredients of Plankton Extract

Plankton, especially brown algae, are rich in polysaccharides that are lacking in many terrestrial plants, such as brown algal gum, brown algal gum and kelp starch. In addition, alga can be degraded into alga oligosaccharides with different molecular weight, which has the function of promoting growth.
Different kinds of plankton contain different components of plant hormones, and there is not only one plant hormone in the same species of plankton. Betaine is widely present in Marine algae and Plankton Extract, belongs to quaternary ammonium alkaloids, is an amino acid or amino acid derivative, and the diversity of algae determines their diversity in structure and function.

Once produced commercially in the 1950s, Plankton Extract was primarily focused on its abundant mineral micronutrients. Later, people gradually realized that the active substances contained in seaweed are far more important than the trace elements. Its functions include improving soil environment, improving crop resistance to disease, promoting plant growth, improving mineral nutrition absorption ability, and improving crop quality... At the same time, the organic combination of various active substances make the effects bigger than imaged.
Let’s talk about several important active substances in plankton as follows:
1. Seaweed polysaccharide
Plankton, especially brown algae, are rich in polysaccharides that are lacking in many terrestrial plants, such as brown algal gum, brown algal gum and kelp starch.

Alginate: a polymer consisting of two monomers, mannose uronic acid and guro uronic acid. It has the characteristics of gel, chelation and hydrophilicity, etc., and has a significant effect on soil and water conservation, promoting the formation of aggregates, activating mineral elements and so on. It has a good soil regulation effect. In addition, alga can be degraded into alga oligosaccharides with different molecular weight, which has the function of promoting growth.
Alginose gum: it is a kind of polysaccharide substance with varied composition and complex structure, among which there are mannose, galactose, xylose, glucuronic acid and protein, etc. It has strong adsorption ability to metal ions, and can be used to control soil heavy metal pollution
2. Plant hormones
Plankton, like higher land plants, have many plant hormones, such as auxin, gibberellin, cytokinin and abscisic acid.
3. Betaine

Betaine is widely found in Marine algae and seaweed extracts. It belongs to quaternary ammonium alkaloids and is an amino acid or amino acid derivative. The diversity of algae determines their structural and functional diversity.
Betaine can enhance the ability of plants to resist drought, high salt and other adverse environments, regulate the balance of endogenous hormones, improve the content of chlorophyll in plant leaves, and increase crop yield.
4. Sterol

Sterols are widely found in plants, including algae, and are important components of biological cells.
The sterols contained in different algae are different, most red algae take cholesterol as main sterol, green algae take ergosterol as main sterol, and brown algae take phytosterol as main sterol.
At present, the active substances in seaweed extract have been proved in a large number of practices to promote the growth and stress resistance of crops as well as soil improvement. The market demand and potential are huge and the prospect is very broad.
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