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Fruits quality is built every day

Davide Colombo

25 May 2022

How to accompany the plant in fruits ripening

Fruits ripening is a very complex process in the plant and it must be supported in the defense and nutrition by the farmer to obtain a good harvest.
One of the most critical stages after the fruit-set is the sugars accumulation in the fruits.
The sugars (sucrose, glucose, and fructose) produced by photosynthesis are translocated from the leaves ("source" organs) towards the fruits ("sink" organs) through the phloematic vessels.
The passage of sugars from the phloem to the fruit is an active transport mediated by carrier proteins that load the sugars from the phloem and transport them to the fruits. This active transport requires energy and it is more efficient if the sugars are correctly complexed with molecules that increase permeability and therefore are more easily recognized by carrier proteins.
Sometimes could happen that a cause of environmental stress or from a bad nutrition the plant does not have the energy to translocate sugars into the fruit, causing a loss of quality and yield.
An incorrect or partial accumulation of sugars in the fruit could cause also problems in fruit ripening and coloring.
Each crop follows its own ripening cycle in which there is a switch in metabolism regulated by changes in gene expression and therefore by specific enzymatic and physiological activities. These modifications are (almost always) very clear, they start at precise moments in the vegetative cycle and correspond to the beginning of the sugar accumulation processes.
This is the right time to apply Sugar Power and take full advantage of its features.
Sugar Power is a high specific plant nutrition product developed by Agridaeus.
The components of Sugar Power provide the energy needed for active transport having high efficiency in complexing sugars and favor the uploading in the phloem increasing membrane permeability.
The result is to bring the plants to the highest level of efficiency in sugars translocation.

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