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What’s Geapower?

Geapower is the innovative system created by Valagro that naturally empowers the plants potential to deliver outstanding results and top performance.

Geapower unites more than 70 years of experience in plant physiology with the ability to reach the best raw materials, to extract and to identify the natural active ingredients, to understand how they can be arrangedinto a crop nutritional specialty.

Where does Geapower come from?

Geapower has its roots in the extensive knowledge Valagro has developed in over 70 years of investigation in plant and seaweedphysiology. It was 1942 when Algeafound the first method in the world to extract active ingredients from seaweed.

Today, Algea is a part ofValagro, its know-how constantly renewed with unrelenting passion and innovative technology.

The Geapower pillarsAccess to raw materials

Extraction method

Lab analysis

Know-how

Access to raw materials

Valagro has direct access to many raw materials used for the production of nutritional specialties.

From the plant Quillaja saponariaand Yucca plantations to Mongolian pastures, from Agave plantations in Mexico and the bottom of the Arctic sea where Ascophyllum nodosumgrows, up to Valagro crop nutrition specialties, Valagro chooses only the best.

Access to raw materials

Extraction method

Lab analysis Know-how

Access to raw materials

Valagro selects raw materials only in the purest habitats, with selected timely harvests according to natural cycles, because the respect for nature is an integral part of Valagro values.

All this is made possible by a long and well established experience with the physiology of plants.

Access to raw materials

Extraction method

Lab analysis Know-how

Proteins

Laminarine

Extraction Method

All Valagro products are derived from vegetal raw materials. Thanks to an extensive knowledge of vegetal matrixes, Valagro chooses the best extraction method depending on material and type of pursued substance.

When preservation of all biological active components is needed, the Geapower system adopts the enzymatic extraction.

Access to raw materials

Extraction method

Lab analysis Know-how

Extraction Method

Extraction and further elaboration of raw materials continue in Valagro plants, where every parameter is carefully and continuously monitored.

Valagro is extensively investing in cutting-edge technologic equipment to ensure top quality processes and products.

Access to raw materials

Extraction method

Lab analysis Know-how

Lab analysis

Once a substance is extracted, the identification processbegins.

Valagro lab equipment can identify and quantify everysubstance in the vegetalextract.

Today, Valagro relies on a data base of over 35.000 substances.

Access to raw materials

Extraction method

Lab analysis Know-how

Lab analysis

Only a few years ago, field investigations of at least two yearswere needed for testing the effect of any substance on plants. This created a high percentage of errors due to human and biological factors.

Today, having adopted GeneChip investigationsbased on Micro Array technology, Valagro is able to understand the real contribution of each component inside the product formulation in a very short time. And with no errors.

Access to raw materials

Extraction method

Lab analysis Know-how

Lab analysis

Micro Array technology, combined with Valagro know-how, makes it possible to investigate the effects of Valagro products on each of the 24,000 genes of Arabidopsis thaliana, the plant model which was genetically mapped back in the ’90s. This investigation takes only two days.

Access to raw materials

Extraction method

Lab analysis Know-how

Access to raw materials

Extraction method

Lab analysis Know-how

Gene insertion

Genomic approachNo modifications of plant genoma

Cell fusion Genetic recombination

Micro Array technologyGeapower technology offers you outstanding results. proven through extensive field trials conducted by Valagro. For example, see how the Geapower genomic approach is explained within Megafol, an anti-stress and plant growth activator.

GENE MARKERS and PLANT RESPONSE

AT3G21729.1cellular

metabolic processes

AT5G54490.1auxin

stimulus

AT1G04220osmotic

stress and wounding

AT4G10270.1wounding

stress

AT1G02930.1water

deprivation and oxidative

stress

AT3G13310.1heat stress

AT3G51860cation

exchanger

Vegetative development

4 times than the

untreated

Production increase4 timesthan the

untreated

Anti-stress action3 times than the

untreated

62 times than the

untreated

6 times than the

untreated

5 times than the

untreated

Carrier capabilities3 times than the

untreated

Access to raw materials

Extraction method

Lab analysis Know-how

Know-how

When you know the ingredients and their characteristics.When you know where and whenthey can be collected.When you know how they can be extracted.When you know how to use and profit from the most innovative technology.Then everything falls into place and you have “Geapowered” nutritional specialties that maximize your crops.

Access to raw materials

Extraction method

Lab analysis Know-how

Powered by Geapower means…

Greatly improved product effectiveness, because Geapowered specialties act directly on the plants physiology.

Total safety, because only vegetal active substances are carefully used.

Increased earnings, because Geapowered products ensure production increase, stronger plants, bigger fruits, faster ripening.

All of this isGeapower

Know-how

Lab investigation

Extraction methods

Access tothe raw materials

All of this is what you find in a Valagro biostimulant