The biostimulant to nourish and protect
Bridgeway provides the optimum concentration of amino acids and stimulating peptide complex to help power crops and secure yield.
Bridgeway is a leading amino acid and peptide biostimulant that promotes healthier, higher-yielding crops by stimulating growth, optimising resource-use-efficiency and increasing immunity against stressful growing conditions. Rich in all vegetal amino acids critical to growth, metabolism, nutrition and defence, Bridgeway is the natural renewable solution for growers looking to more resilient and sustainable crop production.
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The importance of amino acids and peptides
Amino acids and peptides (small chains of amino acids) are the building blocks of protein and are critical for healthy growth and development. They play a vital role in virtually every process within plants, including photosynthesis, regulating root and shoot growth, metabolic enzymes and stimulation, nutrient transport, stress defence and the regulation of crop growth. They are also responsible for the storage and transport of nitrogen and are therefore an important part of N metabolism. In abiotic and biotic stress conditions stress-busting amino acids are needed in high concentrations to provide tolerance and repair.
Naturally rich building blocks for your crops
Sourced exclusively from plants, Bridgeway contains the richest, purest source of all L-amino acids required by plants for healthy growth and development.
Bridgeway:
- Provides triple action power to crops through biostimulation, nutrition, and anti-stress action to nourish and protect crops under increasingly adverse growing conditions.
- Every L-amino acid in an immediately available and usable form that can be readily absorbed, transported, and utilised, saving the energy usually expended by plants to reduce organic matter, synthetic nitrates and ammonia into amino acids.
- In good conditions Bridgeway reduces the amount of energy the plant channels into protein production. Under stress conditions, it enables the plant to conserve energy and avoids the waste of breaking down proteins to recycle amino acids for stress defence.
- Chemical free and produced using our cutting-edge enzymatic hydrolysis techniques to preserve all the bioactivity and natural goodness.
- The best amino acid source for healthy higher yielding crop production.
Bridgeway key benefits:
1. Optimises growth and development
Stimulates growth and strengthens all plant parts
Bridgeway contains high levels of root stimulating amino acids and peptides that increase the lateral roots and root length density of plants. The more robust and expansive root systems enable crops to capture nutrients readily available in the soil and leached water and nutrients lower down. Building strong root systems with Bridgeway early in the life of the crop ensures the supply of water for photosynthesis and transpiration that is needed for highly efficient crop production. The stimulation of growth regulating phytohormones also promote shoot growth and biomass production, supported by more abundant resources to optimise plant growth and development.
Maximises nutrient uptake, transport and use
Bridgeway increases nutrient uptake and the translocation of both macro- and micro-nutrients within the plant, by changing root morphology, improving micronutrient mobility in the plant, and by increasing activity of NO3-assimilation enzymes. The small molecular weight of L-glycine and L-glutamic acid, natural chelating agents, also support the assimilation of metals such as Fe, Zn, Mn and Cu, by making them more readily absorbable through roots and leaves. Supplementing crops with Bridgeway offers potential to increase nutrient-use-efficiency and enhance the quality and health of plants.
2. Increases nutrient-use-efficiency
3. Supplies more energy to the crop
Speeds up photosynthesis
Bridgeway increases chlorophyl production in plants, increasing the rate of photosynthesis. The higher glucose production provides more energy for crop growth which is particularly advantageous at key development growth stages when energy demand is high. The ability of Bridgeway to help stabilise photosynthesis during the season is key to protecting the yield and quality potential of the crop when abiotic and biotic stress would usually reduce the plant’s energy supply, suppressing growth.
Supports the defence systems of plants
Bridgeway provides an immediate supply of stress-acting amino acids that signal the defense systems of plants, avoiding the recycling of proteins to amino acids at huge cost to the plant. Under low temperature, water deficit, salinity stress, and high UV exposure, stress-busting proline accumulates in cells where it is needed to suppress oxidative stress, and secure osmotic balance to maintain cell turgor when water is limited. Under heat stress, Glutamic Acid (in high concentration in Bridgeway) acts as an osmotic agent triggering stoma to open, enabling photosynthesis, water and nutrient absorption to continue, even during stressful growing conditions. Bridgeway helps plants to adapt to stressful growing conditions and rapidly resets the balance between stress resistance and growth, critical to secure yield and quality potential.
4. Protects against abiotic and biotic stress
Key situations to use
Performance in trials
Over the last 4 years we’ve built an extensive catalogue of proof in a wide range of crops, from wheat to beet, barley to potatoes and other veg. In addition to our grower trials programme, we’ve worked closely with independent researchers to put Bridgeway through its paces, working with companies such as The University of Nottingham, NIAB, Cropworks, The Allium & Brassica Centre, CMI Ltd, and Greencrop Information (part of Dyson Farms).
Bridgeway benefits proven in replicated trials and reported from the field
Significant increases in root and shoot growth
Rooting and growth benefits
Higher brix readings, higher rates of photosynthesis
Increases in nutrient uptake in a range of crops
Abiotic stress protection in wide range of crops
Supports biotic stress protection
Bulking maintained under stress, significant yield increases
Yield and sugar gains in sugar beet
Assessing biostimulant performance at Nottingham University
New research just conducted in Spring 2022 also confirms Bridgeway’s ability to improve plant health under reduce N input, with increases in rooting, shoot growth, chlorophyll and nitrogen-use-efficiency. See the research here.
You can also get a better insight to the rooting work we have been doing at Nottingham University by listening to this short video where Dr. Steve Rossall and Stuart Sutherland talk through the approach.
Discover the trials results
Download our Bridgeway handbook and go to the Performance in Trials section to see how Bridgeway has been performing in replicated trials and on farm.
Agronomist and grower case studies
Here’s a selection of case studies you may be interested in:
Good Bridgeway responses in Sugar Beet
Max Howlett, Frontier agonomist, found no discernible difference in the canopy of sugar beet crops treated with Bridgeway, but at harvest, both yield and sugar content was greater.
Stress-busting solutions with Bridgeway and Zonda
Keith Challen, farms director at Belvoir Farming Company, Leics, is heading into another season of using biostimulants, and says amino acid products will be more important than ever this year.
Revitalise vegetables with Bridgeway
According to East of Scotland Growers agronomist, James Rome, clubroot is one of the biggest crop health challenges facing vegetable growers in the region at the moment and has seen the benefits of using Bridgeway first-hand.
From disaster to success with Bridgeway
Covering the east coast of Scotland, Hutchinsons agronomist, Keith Brand has seen noticeable benefits to vegetable performance as a result of using biostimulant product, Bridgeway.
Recommended application rates by crop
Note: Also available in 1,000 litre IBC.
Stockists: You can purchase Bridgeway through HL Hutchinsons and Frontier Agriculture.
Power crops, secure yield with Bridgeway
