Benefits of IAS Technology

• Regeneration of soil ecology: IAS products promote a balanced soil ecosystem through calculated coinoculations with pre-selected plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB) that improve soil organic matter and aggregation, cycle and mobilize nutrients for plant uptake, and provides plants with growth promoting factors capable to inhibit pathogenic microorganisms.
• Restoration of the phytomicrobiome with teams of PGPB in order to establish a symbiotic relationship and the restoration of the rhizomicrobiome is the primary purpose behind the IAS platform formulations. (IAS team)
• Improved soil structure and permeability: Dense bacterial populations per gram of soil promotes soil aggregation and stability by increasing soil organic matter (SOM) upon consistent applications. Soil aggregation helps to improve nutrient cycling, air and water movement and water permeation. This is extremely important to growers with deep-water wells or low water quality wells that have disrupted the soil structure through conventional irrigation and agricultural practices.
• Reduction in leaf litter and organic debris: Bacterial metabolic processes permit the decomposition of lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose through enzymatic degradation speeding up the decomposition process of organic debris, leaf litter and thatch.
• Reduction in the incidence of disease: IAS laboratory staff, through rigorous assays and field trials, have screened and selected bacterial strains that exhibited antifungal activity against common fungal pathogens (Rhizoctonia s., Botrytis c., Bipolaris s., Sclerotinia h., Waitea c., etc…) and reduced the incidence in migratory plant pathogenic nematodes (Sting, Lance and Stubby-root).
• Increased plant production and yields: By reducing pathogens and incidents of disease while also creating a healthy living soil structure, plants treated with our products are better able to uptake nutrients and ultimately grow stronger, faster and produce higher yields.
• Reduction in fertilizer consumption and associated costs: Bacteria restrict nutrient leaching by sequestration, immobilization or mineralization within and around the root zone. This functionality allows the grower to maximize their fertilizer effectiveness which leads to a reduction in the overall amount of inputs that are required to grow a crop. IAS bacterial strains undergo a variety of assays and have been selected based on their functions such as the ability to “unlock” bound nutrients such as phosphorous and sulfur, iron sequestration through siderophore assimilation, nitrogen fixation, ammonification and nitrification, chitin degradation and solubilization, indoleacetic acid synthesis, etc… Soils with weak microbiota cycle nutrients poorly deeming them immobilized which in turn become unavailable to the plants and end up leeching from the root zone over time that end up in the environment and cost the grower the expense of having to add more fertilizer more frequently to sustain crop production and productivity.
• Worker safe and environmentally friendly products: We do not use harsh chemicals or components in formulating our products. The end user of our product cannot burn, over-use or harm his crop with our products and any potential application liability is extremely limited from the worker safety point of view.
• Locally researched, manufactured, marketed and delivered microbial products: IAS offers products designed around delivering real results for local growers that have been researched, formulated, and manufactured in Fort Myers, Florida.
• More living microbiology delivered per acre compared to competition: Our platform technology allows us to produce a consortium of pre-determined rhizobacteria species at dense populations higher than any other products available on the market. We have found incidents of our products containing up to 250,000 times more CFU’s (colony forming units) per milliliter than currently marketed products.
• Better value to the grower: With our low cost manufacturing process and ability to serve the local market directly, we can offer extremely competitive pricing allowing the grower to replace other inputs while achieving better results.
• Microbiology laboratory capable of diagnostic soil analysis and research needs: Being locally accessible to our consumers adds value to our products through the support functions our lab offers. This aspect of our business model makes us unique and will appeal to growers well beyond the sales process.
• Partnership with a supporting team striving for excellence: The IAS core team is comprised of knowledgeable, experienced, and hard-working members dedicated to making a positive impact in crop production through microbiological and biotechnological processes in order to optimize a consortium of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria – “the original active ingredients” within the soil.