Q. What is the role of Amino acids in fertilizers?

Answer

1) Organic nitrogen nutrition supplementation; 2) A metal ion chelating agent. Amino acids have the ability to complex (chelate) metal ions making it simple to transport medium and trace elements (calcium magnesium iron manganese zinc copper molybdenum boron selenium and so on) into plants. Improve plant utilisation of different nutrients; 3) Preparations based on enzymes. Amino acids are vital in plant metabolism because they act as promoters and catalysts for the production of different enzymes. However because amino acids are rapidly digested and degraded by microorganisms in the soil they are unsuitable for use as a base fertilizer.