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To: Dr Mike Amaranthus
Mycorrhizal Applications Inc
Oct 24,2008
Dear Dr Mike,
Here are the results of the corn trial. There were 6 replications of each treatment (rows systematically planted with MycoApply treatment and controls with buffer rows on the edges)
The results (quantity of corn harvested) are measured in gallons of shucked and cleaned but not shelled corn at harvest time as measured in level 4 gallon buckets.
The control corn seed was not coated with MycoApply product: Average yield: 68 gallons.
The treated corn seed with Myco Apply micronized endo from Mycorrhizal Applications (lab results indicated 56% root mycorrhizal colonization)
Average yield: 78 gallons
The results indicate a 15% increase in yield on the MycoApply treated plots. I appreciate your products and your work and hope we can work together again.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Spero Lupine Knoll Farm
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2/10/10
Dear Mike,
Sorry to have taken so long in communicating the results of
last season’s research on the nutritional response of organic purple sweet corn to different seed treatments at planting time. I will be mailing copies of data relevant to the summary comments that I hope to make clear in the following comments.
The field was divided into two sections (A & B), each treated as follows A- 16 rows, got Myco-Apply only on seed with a pre-plant treatment of N-Texx on the soil , while B-12 rows, had Jump Start applied as a seed inoculating at planting with a per-plant treatment of liquid fish only on the soil. Mycorrhizial colonization was evaluated only once and found to be greatest at 18% with treatment A, as opposed to treatment B with only 2% colonization.
Nutritional evaluation of both sides of this acre showed another level of nutrient uptake and subsequent feed value. Treatment A showed better Calcium uptake,with better feed value associated with higher total protein, with slightly lower anthocyanin
concentrations in seed compared with the Treatment B seed. It is the increase in Calcium uptake that most intrigues me for several reasons most especially quicker maturity and faster dry down. In 2010 we will again pursue our study of calcium uptake utilizing seed treatment as well as soil and foliar applications of Calcium.
Thank you for your support in the ‘09 project and we encourage collaboration in the future.
Best Regards,
Munk ‘D’ Bergin
Heritage Foods / Seeds
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Examination of a sample arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal inoculum, Mycorrhizal Applications, Inc
received 30 April 2009.
The product consists of a uniformly coloured, fine, dry powder. After washing through a 50 μm sieve, the retained material was washed into a small dish of water and examined.
Initial observations showed that there were many fine root fragments and an extremely large number of spores. Indeed, apart from sporocarpic species that produce large clusters of densely packed spores, I have never seen such a dense sporulation in a sample either from a pot culture or of any commercial inoculum. See photos of individual spores and root fragments and spores within root fragments.
This inoculum contains very large numbers of apparently healthy spores along with large numbers of root fragments that also might be expected to act as propagules. There was no sign of non-AM fungi, or of AMF in any genus or group other than Glomus GrGlAb (see the website amf- phylogeny.com), and although no colonisation potential trials were carried out, it might be expected that this would act as a potent AMF inoculum.
Dr. Chris Walker
2 May 2009.
BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH & IMAGING LAB
8 DANCERS HILL
GLOUCESTER
GL4 5TY
Phone: +44 (0)1452 615123
E-mail: Mycetes@btinternet.com
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September 11, 2008
I first started using mycorrhizae in 1980. Our family owned Glass Mountain Forest Tree Nursery in the Napa Valley. What we were looking for was a larger healthier plant that would out perform the seedlings we had been growing since 1965. Once I inoculated the nursery seed beds, immediately I noticed larger healthier faster growing root systems and top growth. For us this was important because we seeded the nursery in April or May and harvested the bare root seedlings in the winter, January through March. We only had a short period in which to get the seedlings up to the specified sizes under contract to the lumber companies in California and Oregon. We noticed our cull rate went from 30% down to 10%, and the caliper of the seedlings all exceeded the minimum required 5-mm caliper and a 5 inch top. We immediately noticed greater financial returns on our net profits. We also found the fertilizers were working much better and were able to reduce the purchases by 35%. Our fungicide costs reduced significantly. From a nurseryman’s perspective and a with a Scottish banker for a Father –things were looking up. But what we found in later years when the trees were out planted in the forests of the Pacific Northwest was really where the benefits showed their prowess.
Recently, I performed a trial in a grape vine nursery in our area with VA mycorrhizae. I inoculated 2000 plants in paper pots known as Zip Sets. Also I left 2000 as control plants for the trial. The plants were growing in a greenhouse environment typical to the industry at the time. I received a call from the nursery owner with what appeared to be terrible news. The greenhouse had a power failure during an extended holiday, the greenhouse reached temperatures too high for any life to live for several days, no cooling and no water. I went into the greenhouse to view the plants and they all looked as though a blow torch had hit them, all dead, or so it appeared. I instructed the nurseryman to continue with watering the plants as though nothing had happened. After several weeks the inoculated plants were all green again pushing new shoots and visually recovering, however, the non mycorrhizal plants were brown and as it turned out through time was a complete loss. Now, we know about the benefits of mycorrhizae from a drought tolerance and resistance standpoint, but this result was so compelling that again, I was a believer even more so as to the benefits of mycorrhizal plants.
Here at Genesis we not only have the knowledge, but have found a source of the worlds best inoculum in our association with Dr. Mike Amaranthus. For all the reasons that I have experienced in my 28 years of application of this magnificent gift, I have seen so much that is positive and not one single negative.
Today after three years of trials and tribulations we are seeing the ultimate in our results, as evidenced by the photographs and field data that we have accumulated.
I must stress, (just kidding), we have gone beyond my wildest expectations of what this process is capable of doing for the long term health and viability of my very favorite industry, the wine industry.
“Drink up, enjoy”!
Bruce Coulthard