PhycoTerra Product Launch

Heliae today introduced PhycoTerra F1 and S1, a new family of agricultural products resulting from Heliae’s microalgae production technology platform and based on Heliae’s ongoing agricultural research and development program. PhycoTerra products provide a source of nutrients to the natural bacterial microflora that associate with plants. Other aspects of how PhycoTerra works with plants are being actively studied by Heliae. In phase one trials conducted in the summer of 2014 with Holden Research a statistically significant increase in utilization measurements for bell peppers that received PhycoTerra and standard N-P-K by in furrow administration as compared to those plants that only received N-P-K.

PhycoTerra is produced by Heliae’s proprietary microalgae growth platform, which allows the naturally occurring microalgae that power PhycoTerra to be produced under controlled conditions. Heliae ensures that PhycoTerra is formulated and subjected to quality controls to provide a product that has stability and other qualities that growers look for. Heliae remains committed to the development of PhycoTerra for growers and is actively designing and conducting additional studies in peppers and in a wide variety of other plants including fruit trees, turf, and high value crops. Heliae is also engaging customers and other growers in conducting similar studies with PhycoTerra.