UK’s largest mass producer of mycorrhizal fungi and producer of PGPR (Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria). Based at Kent Science Park and NIAB EMR. Spin-out from University of Kent (2000).
Key Data from Direct Driller
- SMART ROTATION 3 PGPR range: crop-specific tuned bacterial consortia
- 534 data points across 12 farms, 3 crops, 2 years: +10.5% ear count, +5.6% yield (mixed linear modelling)
- Crop-specific yield increases: barley +8%, oat +7.5%, wheat +2.9%
- Key finding: crop-specific tuned consortium outperforms diverse multi-strain — “more is not always better”
- SR2 (Mycorrhizal Fungi): £39/ha; SR3 (Beneficial Bacteria): £20/ha
- Simon Cowell trial: +1.3 t/ha wheat with PlantWorks PGPR; mycorrhizal colonisation up to 80%
[Sources: dd-issue-03, dd-issue-08]
Related Pages
- Biological Inoculants and Soil Microbe Products — Full inoculant context
- Mycorrhizal Fungi Under No-Till — AMF science
- Simon Cowell — Essex No-Till Pioneer — Trial results
- Andrew Mahon — Bromborough Estate, Northamptonshire — PlantWorks bacterial product trials at Bromborough