Vita-Rhize is an innovative liquid biological complex. Comprehensive trials have shown nutrional, growth stimulation and plant health activities that can provide an alternate source of nutrients for crops.
It has a fully bio-organic composition containing valuable soil microbes, micro-humates, fulvic and amino acids, natural phyto-hormones and pheromones, digestible growth stimulators and organic microelements
Vita-Rhize is produced through a patented Phyto-Pharma technology ensuring the blend and activity of the bacterial species provide the soil, and the plants that are grown on it, the right conditions needed to survive and thrive.
2.7x microbial mass compared to standard
Next Generation DNA Sequencing
Unlike other species-specific biological products that are available on the market, Vita-Rhize relies on the complex interactions between the complete microbial community and the plant. It is the balance of the microbial community composition that is important for healthy host-microbe relationships and the resulting impacts on plant health. Both the enrichment and disruption of microbiota abundance serve as important mechanisms for disease incidence in plants
But what are these microorganisms and what do they do?
Bacteria break down easy to-use organic material, and retain the nutrients, like N, P and S in the soil. About 60% of the carbon in those organic materials are respired as carbon dioxide, but 40% of that carbon is retained as bacterial biomass
Fungi break down the more difficult-to-decompose, organic matter, and retain those nutrients in the soil as fungal biomass. Just like bacteria, fungal waste products become soil organic matter, and these waste materials are used by other organisms
Fungi produce hyphae which hold soil particles together, improving structure and subsequently drainage and aeration.
Protozoa are one-celled, highly mobile organisms that feed on bacteria and on each other. Because protozoa require 5 to 10-fold less nitrogen than bacteria, N is released when a protozoan eats a bacterium. That released N is then available for plants to take up. Between 40 and 80% of the N in plants can come from the predator-prey interaction of protozoa with bacteria
Beneficial nematodes eat bacteria, fungi, and other nematodes. Nematodes need even less nitrogen than protozoa, between 10 and 100 times less than a bacterium contains, or between 5 and 50 times less than a fungal hyphae contains. Thus when bacterial- or fungal-feeding nematodes eat bacteria or fungi, nitrogen is released, making that N available for plant growth. These beneficial nematodes are unfortunately also controlled by chemicals used for the control of parasitic nematodes, significantly disrupting the soil microbiome.
These microorganisms play a significant role in the productivity of the soil, the growth of the plants and the impacts of pests and diseases
They convert waste into useful soil products like humus
They bring nutrients from the atmosphere and minerals locked up in the soil
They form symbiotic relationships with plants to help roots take up nutrients
They increase root size and surface area giving greater drought resistance
They protect the root biome from pathogens and colonize leaf surface and cells to perform the same functions
Carbon dioxide produced by their respiration provides a much higher level in the air just above the soild for greater photosynthesis
They produce chemicals that are toxic to some pests and diseases
Several types attack and destroy parasitic nematodes