Cutting edge biostimulant solution
Data driven & rigorously tested for 20 years
Unlock your plants full genetic potential
A CLOSER LOOK AT C4L
Unlocking genetic potential
C4L is a cutting edge biostimulant solution designed to unlock your plants full genetic potential in varying environmental conditions. It enhances plant and soil health by optimizing natural processes leading to increased production, resilience and product quality. It's a carefully formulated complex of unique flavonoids and different plant extracts, including citrus, aurantium, and organic acids, designed as an organic foliar applied suspension concentrate. Much of the IP behind C4L lies in its delicate and complex formulation process, ensuring its superior quality. C4L has excellent compatibility, having been included in numerous tank mixes over the years without causing any adverse effects. C4L technology is a data driven product rigorously tested over two decades across 48 different crops.
ENHANCED PHOTOSYNTHESIS LEADS TO:
Increased energy production
INCREASED ENERGY
A significant increase in energy production can be seen on the gene map with many upregulated genes. Plants possess remarkable physiological processes and mechanisms to tackle various challenges they encounter. However, to effectively employ these mechanisms, plants require energy. This surplus energy gained from enhanced photosynthesis is channeled towards energy expensive processes such as hormone and secondary metabolism.
SURPLUS ENERGY IS CHANNELED TOWARDS COMPLEX METABOLIC PROCESSES SUCH AS ...
Secondary & hormone metabolism
BROAD PRIMING RESPONSE
Ultimately C4L activates a broad priming response, enhancing the plants overall resilience, adaptability and capability to cope with both biotic and abiotic stresses.
Stress priming
SECONDARY METABOLITE SYNTHESIS
There’s a shift then towards secondary metabolism while maintaining primary metabolism. Secondary metabolism makes plants more competitive in their environment. The application of C4L increases the production of various secondary metabolites, each serving important functions.
ENHANCED SIGNALLING & HORMONE METABOLISM
The upregulation of signaling pathways and hormone production in plants leads to increased production, modification, or activity of plant hormones. Plant hormones act as signaling molecules. This enhancing signaling leads to improve communication coordination within the plant, enhancing its ability to respond and adapt to environmental changes, optimize growth and development, nutrient uptake and utilization, increased stress tolerance, and strengthened defense mechanisms.
STRESS PRIMING: BIOTIC
C4L enhances plant resilience to biotic stress by strengthening physical barriers like cell walls and cuticles, activating defense proteins (e.g., PR proteins), and boosting antimicrobial secondary metabolites. It improves nutrient uptake, particularly calcium, enhances trichome density for added protection, and stimulates root exudates that suppress soil-borne pathogens and nematodes. These mechanisms collectively fortify the plant's defenses and reduce damage from pests and diseases.
A 2024 trial on French Colombard at California State University, Fresno, showed that C4L reduced powdery mildew leaf incidence by 31.5%, cluster incidence by 44.8%, and severity by 38.2%, highlighting its role in biotic stress priming.
STRESS PRIMING: ABIOTIC
Abiotic stress priming enhances tolerance to environmental stressors. As an example of abiotic stress priming, the PhD study on Arabidopsis thaliana was done on salinity stress and found that C4L helps plants manage salt stress by up regulating two salinity related genes, even in the absence of salt. This priming effect prepares the plant for stress, leading to improved tolerance when stress does occur.
UPREGULATION OF CELL WALL METABOLISM
Cell wall metabolism
ROOT EXUDATES
Increase and modification of root exudates
CELL WALL METABOLISM
Alongside photosynthesis, cell wall metabolism was significantly influenced by the application of C4L, with many genes upregulated. This implies thicker and stronger cell walls, offering enhanced protection against space and pathogens while also benefiting structural integrity, fruit firmness and shelf life.
BEAN SEEDLING
This image compares untreated and C4L-treated bean seedlings at 200x magnification, highlighting the differences in leaves, stems and roots.
IMPROVED SYMBIOTIC PLANT-MICROBE RELATIONSHIPS
INCREASE IN MODIFICATION IN ROOT EXUDATES
The second benefit of enhanced photosynthesis is an increase and modification of root exudates. Increased root exudates have a major positive impact on the rhizosphere microbial community. Research shows that C4L enhances symbiotic plant microbe relationships, boosts the activity and colonization of beneficial soil organisms such as mycorrhizae, and suppresses harmful microbes.
These combined effects significantly benefit and enhances the plant's overall health and resilience under varied environmental conditions, leading to increased production and product quality.
GENE MAP (HEAT MAP)
Its recommendations, gained from extensive research, ensure optimal and consistent results. A PhD study at Stellenbosch University revealed that the expression of more than 2500 genes were changed, after the application of C4L technology, highlighting C4L's profound impact. Using a gene map or heat map, researchers identified the primary areas affected in Arabidopsis, providing valuable insights into the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying C4L technology's effects.
ENHANCED PHOTOSYNTHESIS
In this representation, green indicates upregulated genes, while red signifies down-regulated ones with varying intensity levels. The first focus area dramatically impacted by the application of C4L was photosynthesis. Numerous genes are upregulated, particularly those associated with chlorophyl synthesis. This results in enhanced chlorophyl content, ultimately leading to improved light harvesting. Focusing on the graph first and examining chlorophyl content, it's evident that under no stress conditions treated with only water, (the red bar), chlorophyl content increases significant do when C4L is applied (the dark green bar). Introducing 50 mM sodium chloride, a moderate stressor,(the black bar) immediately affects chlorophyl content. However, adding C4L under the same salt stress improves chlorophyl content to levels similar to the no stress condition (the red bar). Observing the pictures, it's clear that the plants treated with C4L are greener, both on the no stress and stress conditions.
