Sugar beets
Certain microorganisms are used to stimulate cultivated plants' growth and disease resistance. Sometimes such bio-fertilisers works well, sometimes not. Now, researchers at Lund University, Sweden, are to study the exact requirements for improving the growth of sugar beet. If they succeed, biological fertilisers of crops will provide more benefits and bigger harvests. In a newly completed study, the researchers have established that there are considerable differences in the effectiveness of a fungal bio-fertiliser on crops such as sugar beet. The percentage variations in growth effect are in double digits. According to the researchers, the reason for this lies in the genetic variations between genetically different lines of sugar beet.
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