Metalosate® Bioavailability

Metalosate® products can be applied to crops with less concern of phytotoxicity. Because the absorption of the amino acid chelates is so efficient, much lower application rates of the mineral can be used to achieve measurable responses. Effective rates of Metalosate® products can be used on sensitive crops without such problems as burning of leaves or marking of fruit or flowers.

Stability Advantage of Albion’s Metalosate® Amino Acid Chelates

The advantages of using amino acids as the ligand for chelating nutritive metals present unique qualities in stability. The bonding strengths of the ligand are strong enough for the molecules to remain intact through application and absorption, but not so strong as to resist breakdown for metabolic usage of the metal ions by the plant. This fact alone is what gives Metalosate such a unique advantage over other forms of mineral nutrition on the market today.

Other advantages of Metalosate amino acid chelates over competitors include:

1) Easily absorbable due to small molecular size.

2) The ligands are not synthetic or foreign to living systems, but are actually required by them. The amino acid is metabolized by the plant not sloughed leaving it to leach into the water table like some chelating agents. The plant has a natural affinity for metabolizing the amino acid ligands.

3) Ease of passage of the chelate containing the mineral through the cuticle and cell wall barriers and into the cells of the plants.

Read more about Metalosate stability at the Plant Research section of this website.

Albion Plant Nutrition Conference proceedings 2008 :

DIFFERENCES IN ORGANIC MINERALS AND ADVANTAGES OF ALBION® METALOSATE® METAL AMINO ACID CHELATES IN FOLIAR ABSORPTION (page 6)

Robert B. Jeppsen, Ph.D., Director of Technical Services
Albion Plant Nutrition®