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General Principles to Justify Plant Biostimulant Claims

The forthcoming European Union (EU) Fertilizing Products Regulation() proposes a claim-based definition of plant biostimulants, stipulating that “plant biostimulant” means a product stimulating plant nutrition processes independently of the product’s nutrient content, with the aim of improving one o...

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Autores principales: Ricci, Manuele, Tilbury, Lorraine, Daridon, Bruno, Sukalac, Kristen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6477156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31057591
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00494
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author Ricci, Manuele
Tilbury, Lorraine
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description The forthcoming European Union (EU) Fertilizing Products Regulation() proposes a claim-based definition of plant biostimulants, stipulating that “plant biostimulant” means a product stimulating plant nutrition processes independently of the product’s nutrient content, with the aim of improving one or more of the following characteristics of the plant: nutrient use efficiency, tolerance to abiotic stress, crop quality traits or availability of confined nutrients in the soil and rhizosphere. The future regulation also specifies that a plant biostimulant “shall have the effects that are claimed on the label for the plants specified thereon.” This creates an onus for manufacturers to demonstrate to regulators and customers that product claims are justified. Consequently, the justification of the agronomic claim of a given plant biostimulant will be an important element to allow it to be placed on the EU market once this new European regulation is applied. In this article, members of the European Biostimulant Industry Council (EBIC) propose some general guiding principles to follow when justifying plant biostimulant claims, that are outlined in this article. These principles are expected to be incorporated into harmonized European standards that are being developed by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) to support the implementation of the regulation.
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spelling pubmed-64771562019-05-03 General Principles to Justify Plant Biostimulant Claims Ricci, Manuele Tilbury, Lorraine Daridon, Bruno Sukalac, Kristen Front Plant Sci Plant Science The forthcoming European Union (EU) Fertilizing Products Regulation() proposes a claim-based definition of plant biostimulants, stipulating that “plant biostimulant” means a product stimulating plant nutrition processes independently of the product’s nutrient content, with the aim of improving one or more of the following characteristics of the plant: nutrient use efficiency, tolerance to abiotic stress, crop quality traits or availability of confined nutrients in the soil and rhizosphere. The future regulation also specifies that a plant biostimulant “shall have the effects that are claimed on the label for the plants specified thereon.” This creates an onus for manufacturers to demonstrate to regulators and customers that product claims are justified. Consequently, the justification of the agronomic claim of a given plant biostimulant will be an important element to allow it to be placed on the EU market once this new European regulation is applied. In this article, members of the European Biostimulant Industry Council (EBIC) propose some general guiding principles to follow when justifying plant biostimulant claims, that are outlined in this article. These principles are expected to be incorporated into harmonized European standards that are being developed by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) to support the implementation of the regulation. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6477156/ /pubmed/31057591 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00494 Text en Copyright © 2019 Ricci, Tilbury, Daridon and Sukalac. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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General Principles to Justify Plant Biostimulant Claims
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title_short General Principles to Justify Plant Biostimulant Claims
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6477156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31057591
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00494
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