If you want your plants to feel comfortable and with their needs covered, it is best to apply a fertilizer regularly to provide the soil with all the necessary nutrients.
Among the different fertilizers, there are some that contain amino acids, an active material that favors the development of plants during times of stress. To learn more about the virtues of fertilizers with amino acids is that today we focus on the stress that plants can undergo and how to help them overcome this stage.
Plant stress
Throughout life, plants suffer moments of stress, which are produced by alterations in the environment. The changes affect the plant kingdom and therefore plants respond differently than usual, causing biochemical and physiological changes that seek to compensate for the alteration.
Light, extreme temperatures, water, atmospheric pollutants and high concentrations of metallic and non-metallic ions are the factors that alter the environment and affect plants. It is then that these reactions and although they generally manage to overcome stress, in some cases they can cause serious injuries.
Stress that is divided into three stages:
• Alarm: produces a reduction in vitality.
• Resistance: response of the plant, adaptation to change and reacquisition of almost normal operation.
• Exhaustion: serious metabolic alterations appear after trying to adapt without success.
There is a second type of stress that can also appear which is biotic stress. It is a change or alteration in cell metabolism that appears as a consequence of some type of infection such as fungi, bacteria, viruses, nematodes and parasitic plants.
What are amino acids
The amino acids present in many fertilizers They are nothing more than a set of organic molecules composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. The name "amino acid" responds to the functional groups it contains (a basic amino group (NH2) and an acidic carboxyl group (COOH) linked to a carbon chain (R). Some amino acids such as methionine and cystine that also contain sulfur.
As we said, amino acids help plants in times of stress by helping to promote metabolic activity, but they also act when the plant is going through a stage of high development and metabolic activity, such as the flowering stage, during sprouting. or when the fruits begin to be born and develop.