RhizoGel™ Delivery Platform

The core technology underlying the entire DriftTech™ product line. Designed to solve current problems in plant nutrition.

Why do plants not perform well even with robust fertilization, good bacteria, and growth hormones?

Fertilizers, beneficial bacteria, and biostimulants are conventionally delivered through water column dosing, spraying or granular application. These methods share a common flaw–the active compounds are introduced into a large, dynamic environment with no mechanism to concentrate them where they are needed most: the root zone.

The result is underwhelming. Dilution reduces concentration below effective thresholds. Water flow displaces inputs before uptake occurs. Biological agents lose viability before reaching their target. Efficacy becomes inconsistent, dose-dependent, and difficult to reproduce.

This is not a formulation problem. It is a delivery problem.

Delivery Problem Needs a Delivery Solution

While the plant sciences lag, tissue engineering, the field that is responsible for lab-grown organs, excels in creating new delivery mechanisms. The progress in tissue engineering has skyrocketed in recent years due to extensive investments in artificial organs, novel delivery mechanisms for medications, and biofunctional matrices for wound healing, among others.
Our design philosophy hinges on the trans-disciplinary repurposing of tissue engineering knowledge and materials to plant sciences and agriculture. The core idea follows the integral similarities between plant-substrate and cell-matrix interactions. The physics lie in matrix stiffness, the chemistry in signaling molecules, and the biology in oxygen and nutrient transport.

RhizoGel™: A Biologically Relevant Delivery Matrix

RhizoGel™ is a proprietary delivery matrix engineered to localize biological and nutritional inputs directly within the root zone.
Rather than introducing inputs into the surrounding environment and relying on passive uptake, RhizoGel™ creates a structured matrix at the point of application. This matrix anchors the payload in direct proximity to the root system, maintains local concentration, and releases active compounds in a controlled manner as the matrix degrades naturally in the substrate.
The matrix is biodegradable, and amenable for colonization of beneficial bacterial and plant roots.
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Root Zone Localization

Inputs delivered and retained at the root interface and not dispersed into the surrounding water or substrate
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Controlled Release

Active compounds released in a controlled profile dependent on RhizoGel™ degradation, maintaining effective concentration over time.
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Biological Compatibility

A non-toxic, biodegradable matrix that integrates naturally into the substrate, able to provide a biomatrix for microbial colonization.