Inside the Plant: Where Biologicals Tell Their Story

I’ve always been fascinated by how biological products have this incredible ability to help crops adapt, and can shape them from the inside out. They can influence how plants respond to stress, use nutrients, and regulate growth and hormone signaling. However, that invisible (and often complex) work is precisely what makes them so difficult to understand. We can see the outcome in the field, but what’s really happening inside the plant is where the story gets interesting.

When we start looking at those responses, we begin to see patterns that reveal why a product works, not just whether it works. And that “why” changes everything about how we recommend and use biologicals in the field. Which pathways are firing? Which defenses are kicking in? Which growth mechanisms are shifting? And importantly, why does one product trigger those responses while another doesn’t? Those subtle shifts can make all the difference in how a product performs, and also how we best utilize it in the field. The answers are there, written in the plant, waiting for us to look a little closer and ask the right questions.

This is the part that keeps me hooked. It’s where we start connecting what’s happening on a molecular level to what we see in real field results, and that’s where I’ve found that things get exciting.

This short video shows what it looks like when we can read the plant’s side of the story:

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