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What’s Geapower? ƒ Geapower is the innovative system created by Valagro that naturally empowers the plants potential to deliver outstanding results and top performance. ƒ Geapower unites more than 70 years of experience in plant physiology with the ability to reach the best raw materials, to extract and to identify the natural active ingredients, to understand how they can be arranged into a crop nutritional specialty.
Where does Geapower come from? Geapower has its roots in the extensive knowledge Valagro has developed in over 70 years of investigation in plant and seaweed physiology. It was 1942 when Algea found the first method in the world to extract active ingredients from seaweed. Today, Algea is a part of Valagro, its know-how constantly renewed with unrelenting passion and innovative technology.
The Geapower pillars Access to raw materials
Extraction method
Know-how
Lab analysis
Access to raw materials
Extraction method
Lab analysis
Know-how
Access to raw materials ƒ
Valagro has direct access to many raw materials used for the production of nutritional specialties.
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From the plant Quillaja saponaria and Yucca plantations to Mongolian pastures, from Agave plantations in Mexico and the bottom of the Arctic sea where Ascophyllum nodosum grows, up to Valagro crop nutrition specialties, Valagro chooses only the best.
Access to raw materials
Extraction method
Lab analysis
Know-how
Access to raw materials ƒ Valagro selects raw materials only in the purest habitats, with selected timely harvests according to natural cycles, because the respect for nature is an integral part of Valagro values.
Proteins
Laminarine
ƒ All this is made possible by a long and well established experience with the physiology of plants.
Access to raw materials
Extraction method
Lab analysis
Extraction Method ƒ All Valagro products are derived from vegetal raw materials. Thanks to an extensive knowledge of vegetal matrixes, Valagro chooses the best extraction method depending on material and type of pursued substance. ƒ When preservation of all biological active components is needed, the Geapower system adopts the enzymatic extraction.
Know-how
Access to raw materials
Extraction method
Lab analysis
Extraction Method ƒ
Extraction and further elaboration of raw materials continue in Valagro plants, where every parameter is carefully and continuously monitored.
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Valagro is extensively investing in cutting-edge technologic equipment to ensure top quality processes and products.
Know-how
Access to raw materials
Extraction method
Lab analysis
Lab analysis Once a substance is extracted, the identification process begins. Valagro lab equipment can identify and quantify every substance in the vegetal extract. Today, Valagro relies on a data base of over 35.000 substances.
Know-how
Access to raw materials
Extraction method
Lab analysis
Know-how
Lab analysis Only a few years ago, field investigations of at least two years were needed for testing the effect of any substance on plants. This created a high percentage of errors due to human and biological factors. Today, having adopted GeneChip investigations based on Micro Array technology, Valagro is able to understand the real contribution of each component inside the product formulation in a very short time. And with no errors.
Access to raw materials
Extraction method
Lab analysis
Lab analysis Micro Array technology, combined with Valagro knowhow, makes it possible to investigate the effects of Valagro products on each of the 24,000 genes of Arabidopsis thaliana, the plant model which was genetically mapped back in the ’90s. This investigation takes only two days.
Know-how
Access to raw materials
Extraction method
Lab analysis
Know-how
Genomic approach No modifications of plant genoma
Gene insertion
Cell fusion
Genetic recombination
Access to raw materials
Extraction method
Lab analysis
Know-how
Micro Array technology Geapower technology offers you outstanding results. proven through extensive field trials conducted by Valagro. For example, see how the Geapower genomic approach is explained within Megafol, an anti-stress and plant growth activator.
GENE MARKERS and PLANT RESPONSE
AT3G21729.1 cellular metabolic processes
Vegetative development
4 times than the untreated
Production increase
Anti-stress action
Carrier capabilities
AT5G54490.1 auxin stimulus
AT1G04220 osmotic stress and wounding
AT4G10270.1 wounding stress
AT1G02930.1 water deprivation and oxidative stress
AT3G13310.1 heat stress
3 times than the untreated
62 times than the untreated
6 times than the untreated
5 times than the untreated
AT3G51860 cation exchanger
4 times than the untreated
3 times than the untreated
Access to raw materials
Extraction method
Lab analysis
Know-how
Know-how
When you know the ingredients and their characteristics. When you know where and when they can be collected. When you know how they can be extracted. When you know how to use and profit from the most innovative technology. Then everything falls into place and you have “Geapowered” nutritional specialties that maximize your crops.
Powered by Geapower means… Greatly improved product effectiveness, because Geapowered specialties act directly on the plants physiology. Total safety, because only vegetal active substances are carefully used. Increased earnings, because Geapowered products ensure production increase, stronger plants, bigger fruits, faster ripening.
All of this is Geapower
Access to the raw materials Extraction methods Know-how
Lab investigation
All of this is what you find in a Valagro biostimulant