Albert Liptay, Jerry H. Stoller, and Ron A. Salzman. Stoller Enterprises Inc, 4001 W Sam Houston Parkway N, Houston, TX 77043
Initial studies with Stoller’s Sugar Mover on drip-irrigated cotton began in 2004 with a 220 lb increase of lint per acre in large farm scale trials (16 acres). In 2005 on the same farm scale of 16 acre plots, in 2 studies, lint was increased from 336 to 480 lb/acre over untreated plots. In 2006 in a replicated drip irrigation cotton trial with Dr. Liu of the Texas A&M University in Weslaco Texas, lint yield was increased by Sugar Mover applied in the drip system by 350 lb/acre over control (p=5%). In the above years Sugar Mover was applied at the rate of 1 pt/acre weekly in the drip system for 6 weeks beginning at PHS. Additionally in 2007 besides the multi-application Sugar Mover treatment which increased yields by 444 lb/acre of lint (p=5%), a onetime drip application of Sugar Mover @ 4 pt/acre with another Stoller product , CoMo @ 1 pt/acre at the V4 stage of growth, increased cotton lint by 534 lb/acre (p=5%). The mode of action of Sugar Mover, as developed using DNA MicroArray Analyses and verified by RT PCR and carbon-14 studies on the model plant Arabidopsis, is that Sugar Mover increases the amount of sugar synthesized during photosynthesis and also increases sugar transfer away from the leaves to the stem and developing fruits.
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