Agricultural compositions comprising chitin oligomers
AssigneeNovozymes Bioag A/S
InventorsR. Stewart Smith, Ahsan Habib
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Abstract
Disclosed are methods of enhancing plant growth, comprising treating plant seed or the plant that germinates from the seed with an effective amount of at least one chitooligosaccharide, wherein upon harvesting the plant exhibits at least one of increased plant yield measured in terms of bushels/acre, increased root number, increased root length, increased root mass, increased root volume and increased leaf area, compared to untreated plants or plants harvested from untreated seed.
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A composition comprising at least one chitin oligomer in an agriculturally acceptable carrier, said at least one chitin oligomer present in said composition at a concentration of about 10−14 to about 10−5 M, wherein said at least one chitin oligomer is not a lipo-chitooligosaccharide.
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