The Salinity Solution™

DeSal™ & SaltRx™

Proven Results on Turf Under Play Using a Two-Pronged Strategy

Targeting the Soil with DeSal™
DeSal™ is a salinity and sodicity soil treatment that addresses the underlying problems in the soil. It’s the top performing product in this category.

1.Detox the Soil.
Using our proprietary NuRelease™ technology, DeSal™:

• Dramatically reduces sodium and total salt concentrations in rootzones.

• Helps move sodium and total salts out of the rootzone.

• Releases calcium, critical to effective water and nutrient transport.

• Helps correct nutrient deficiencies of calcium, potassium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus and zinc.

Calcium released by DeSal™ in the rootzone has two functions. It displaces sodium on soil particles allowing the sodium to be more easily and economically flushed out. It also helps to supply the plant roots with calcium, which is known to improve salinity tolerance and protect plant cells.

2. Manage Calcium Better
Managing calcium is without question, the most important and most difficult nutrient element to manage for turf professionals dealing with salinity and sodicity issues. Among many other benefits that DeSal™ delivers is dramatically improved calcium availability and efficiency.

3. Correct Nutrient Deficiencies in Rootzone and Soil
We use to great advantage our NuRelease technology to target salinity-sodicity stresses. Our proprietary blend of natural compounds mimics the natural sequestering power of exudates produced by healthy roots and soil microbes. These help reduce sodium toxicity in the plant by making calcium, and also P, K, Mg, Mn, Fe, and Zn more plant available through the roots.

4. Improve Water Uptake

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Targeting the Plant with Salt Rx™
Detox and Strengthen the Plant
Salt Rx™ is an innovative foliar-applied fertilizer and osmoprotectant that significantly increases salinity stress tolerance in turfgrasses. Osmoprotectants are organic solutes that help plants maintain osmotic balance in their cells during salt stress and protect cells from water loss due to ion imbalances.

1.Sodium Toxicity = Calcium Deficiency
Just as sodium displaces calcium on soil particles and destroys soil structure it also displaces calcium in plant cell membranes making them leaky and compromised. When this happens, plants can’t effectively transport water and nutrients and photosynthesis degrades. Getting calcium into the plant is critical for turfgrass survival under these conditions. Salt Rx™ gets calcium and also potassium into plant cells.

2. Protect Osmotic Balance
Salt Rx™ contains unique osmoprotectants in a proprietary formulation that help plants subjected to salinity stress maintain osmotic balance and cell membrane integrity without disrupting enzyme (essential for survival) activity. One of our key osmoprotectants is glycinebetaine.

3.Salinity Solutions from Sea Plants
Betaines, including glycinebetaine, are among the many unique constituents in the seaplants we harvest and process. (Betaines are one of the reasons seaweeds not only survive but flourish in salt water.) We increase our glycinbetaine concentrations by using other natural sources.

• Glycinebetaine has been shown to maintain the activity of enzymes in a wide variety of plants under a wide variety of unfavorable conditions including high temperature, extremes of pH, and high salt concentrations.

• Our research at Rutgers University shows that salt-stressed turf accumulates glycinebetaine when our proprietary foliar materials are applied and that they help maintain osmotic balance.

• The rate of net photosynthesis in salt-stressed plants has also been shown to increase.

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