{"id":48912,"date":"2025-05-31T14:24:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T08:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=48912"},"modified":"2025-05-31T16:27:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T10:57:25","slug":"biostimulant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/biostimulant\/","title":{"rendered":"Biostimulant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Biostimulant Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the central government notified 34 biostimulants to spur manufacturing.<\/p>\n<h2>About Biostimulant<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These are\u00a0<strong>substances or microorganisms<\/strong>\u00a0applied to plants or soil to\u00a0<strong>stimulate natural processes\u00a0<\/strong>and alsowork by enhancing the plant\u2019s own physiological abilities.<\/li>\n<li>Biostimulants are products that\u00a0<strong>reduce the need for fertilizers<\/strong>\u00a0and increase plant growth, resistance to water and abiotic stresses.<\/li>\n<li>They improve overall plant health and productivity by targeting processes such as root development,\u00a0<strong>nutrient efficiency, stress tolerance<\/strong>\u00a0(drought, salinity, extreme temperatures), soil microbial activity.<\/li>\n<li>In addition, biostimulants applied to plants enhance nutrition efficiency, abiotic stress tolerance and\/or plant quality traits, regardless of its nutrient contents.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Common types of biostimulants include:<\/strong>\u00a0Humic and fulvic acids, seaweed extracts, beneficial fungi and bacteria (e.g., mycorrhizae, rhizobacteria).<\/li>\n<li>In India Biostimulants are incorporated under<strong>\u00a0the Fertilizer (Control) Order,1985.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Advantages of Biostimulants<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Improving plant tolerance to abiotic stress<\/strong>\u00a0on plants, including drought, extreme temperatures (cold, frost, and heat), and salinity<\/li>\n<li><strong>Enhancing uptake<\/strong>\u00a0and efficient use of nutrients, both applied and existing<\/li>\n<li><strong>Improving soil health<\/strong>\u00a0by enhancing beneficial soil microorganisms<\/li>\n<li>Enhancing crop quality through plant health and vigor<\/li>\n<li>Increasing harvestable yields<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Biostimulant FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:\u00a0<\/strong>What are the most common biostimulants?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Humic acids, seaweed extracts, liquid manure composting<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:\u00a0<\/strong>What is another name for a bio stimulant?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Biostimulants also termed as plant conditioners\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/economy\/agri-business\/centres-notifiction-of-34-biostimulants-to-spur-manufacturing\/article69634267.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biostimulants are substances or microorganisms applied to plants or soil to stimulate natural processes and also work by enhancing the plant\u2019s own physiological abilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[648,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-48912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-biostimulant","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}