Mechanism

Mechanism of action in Organic Green Gold

Algae are a group of unicellular plants in nature that provide their nutrient supply through photosynthesis, using the materials they take up from their environment.

The special characteristic of algae is that they can take up a large amount of nutrients and store it either as living or as dead organic matter.

Chlorella (Chlorella vulgaris) is a small unicellular alga that can also be found in vegetables of dark green leaves. This provided the basis for the idea to return this organism into the environment. As it can already be found in plants, it might work as an effective transfer in vegetable organisms.

The key to the successful mechanism of action in our alga product is the process of inter- cellar exchange (ICE). The alga cell enters through the stomata of the plant (which is its natural environment in general), attaches itself to the plant’s cells and transfers its nutrients into them through diffusion. The flow of the cytoplasm accelerates the process. Due to the pressure and its equalization process, the nutrients flow from cell to cell at sonic speed. The inter-cellar exchange is faster in young living cells, such as those of the tissues of leaves and roots.

This cytoplasmic connection of plant cells was discovered in 1879 by Tangle and was named as plasmodesma by Strasburger in 1901. The recognition of plasmodesmata proved the existence of the connection between plant cells.

The following conditions are necessary for the alga-concentrate to have its effect on plants:

the difference of concentration in the two cells

the functional connection of the two systems: that is the spear of the cytoplasm

a medium of lower consistency around the two cells of the alga and the plant

(e.g.: inter-cellar space)

The concentration of nutrients in the alga cell is very high, while it is lower in the plant cell and the lowest in the inter-cellar space. Due to this difference of concentration, the water of the inter-cellar space diffuses primarily towards the alga cells, but also towards the plant cells, in a degree proportional to the consistency difference. Then, as the cells of the alga and the plant are connected through cytoplasm spears, the pressure and the nutrients move towards the plant cell. The process continues until the pressure conditions are equalized.

When the alga cells are in the nutrient solution, the nutrients enter the cells through the plasma membrane by the process of osmosis. The nutrients mix with the transparent liquid of the cytoplasm and form large molecules. The cytoplasm is about 80% water in which proteins, lipid carbohydrates, pigments, hormones and vitamins are dissolved. The cytoplasm, the cell nucleus and the other components of the cell form the protoplasm. As the living whole of the cell, the protoplasm is responsible for all the cell’s life-processes (growth, reproduction, reformation, regeneration). The alga cell’s membrane has tiny pores from which the cytoplasm spears can erupt. As these provide the inter-cellar continuity of the cytoplasm, they have an important role in the connection with the plant cells.

Organic Green Gold contains a great amount of nutrients. The unique alga cells of the liquid connect with the cells of the leaves, and through the cytoplasm spears the nutrients and the mostly ionic compounds that foster growth can flow into the cells of the plant’s leaves. From higher towards lower concentration (from source (alga) towards absorber (plant cell))

the flow continues until a balance is established.

Summary:

The cytoplasmic flow transfers the alga’s nutrients that the nutrient-poor plant cells need for

their growth, regeneration and reproduction, and that they can then forward to the other

nutrient-poor plant cells.

The nutrient solution contains dead alga cells too. Their essential nutrients are left in the inter-

cellar space and then absorbed through the cell membrane in the process of ‘active transport’.

The alga diffuses into the root through the fine roots, together with the soil solution. Water

flows into the alga from the plant cell, while the nutrients flow from the alga into the plant.

Finally, the alga necroses, degrades, and the rest of its nutrients get into the soil or the plant’s

inter-cellar space. The remaining nutrient solution can then serve as nutrient for the soil’s

microorganisms.