MultiAction Inoculant Delivers Greater Returns
TagTeam is the world’s first MultiAction inoculant. It is composed of two micro-organisms – a naturally occurring soil fungus Penicillium bilaii for better use of soil and fertilizer phosphate and a superior Rhizobium bacteria species for nitrogen fixation. Balanced nutrition of phosphate and nitrogen is necessary to maximize legume crop yields. The synergy of the two micro-organisms working together results in the highest net returns of any inoculant. The synergy also delivers better results than using a single-action Rhizobium inoculant plus phosphate fertilizer and is a lot more convenient to use.
Phosphate crucial to nitrogen fixation
Research shows that phosphate nutrition has a significant positive impact on nitrogen fixation. Good phosphate nutrition results in more nodules being formed and more active nitrogen fixation. More active nitrogen fixation means more nitrogen to the plant and hence more yield.
There are two reasons why phosphate has a positive affect on nodulation.
- Phosphate is critical for photosynthesis, which is basically developed energy in the leaves. Plant energy is important because nitrogen fixation requires an enormous amount of energy. Thus, the more energy the plant has the more nitrogen fixation the plant can support.
- Phosphate also helps move the energy it helped develop in the leaves to the roots where it is needed to fuel nitrogen fixation.
What does TagTeam do? (1 + 1 = 3 with TagTeam)
The soil fungus Penicillium bilaii plus the Rhizobium bacteria strain in TagTeam work together to create a unique equation. The soil fungus is the key to the equation. It grows on the plants roots and makes less available forms of soil phosphate immediately available to the plant. As noted earlier, the value of phosphate to the plant and nodulation is that it helps create and move much needed energy for the nitrogen fixation process. The other benefit of the action of the soil fungus is that more root hairs develop. Each root hair is a potential infection point for the Rhizobium bacteria. More infection points mean more nodules and more nodules mean more nitrogen is fixed and more fixed nitrogen = higher yields.
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Source: P. bilaii inoculation increases root-hair production in field peas. R.H. Gulden and J.K. Vessey, University of Manitoba. |
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Combine the soil fungus with a superior strain of Rhizobium in high numbers in a high quality formulation and you get a truly unique and high performing MultiAction inoculant . . . TagTeam. TagTeam is currently registered on soybean, pea, lentil, dry bean, chickpea, alfalfa and sweetclover and is available in peat, liquid and granular formulations.
