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Biological Farming Round Table
"80% of the nitrogen within a plant is in the form of enzymes. Enzymes are all crystalline proteins. There are tens of thousands of different enzymes within a plant because each enzyme is needed to form and to catalyse a reaction to form specific bonds. So as proteins get built, you have one amino acid being combined with another specific amino acid.
Let's say for the sake of discussion, combining glycine with alanine and there is only one enzyme that can form one specific type of enzyme that can catalyse that reaction that can form that bond. So because there are hundreds of different compounds that are being formed and thousands of different bonds that are being built, there are tens of thousands of different types of enzymes within the plant and all of these enzymes are dependent on what is called an enzyme cofactor. So these enzyme cofactors can be magnesium, manganese, zinc or copper or they can be B vitamins such s vitamin B 12, cyanocobalamin, which is a metallic vitamin. So all of these proteins, all of these enzymes require the enzyme cofactor in order to function. If the enzyme cofactor is missing, if the plant doesn't have enough manganese or doesn't have enough cobalt in the case of vitamin B12, and so cyanocobalamin, then that means that these specific bonds the plant desires to build, it is incapable of building. Now you end up with a plant that has incomplete proteins. It has funny proteins and it has incomplete carbohydrates. Perhaps it doesn't develop as many lipids or have as many essential fatty acids in the plant profile because it doesn't have the enzyme cofactors that are needed to build complete proteins. This is a concept that is at the foundation of a great deal of disease and insect resistance. When we developed the plant health pyramid. We develop this diagram to describe how plants become resistant to different groups of insects and different groups of diseases, depending on what is happening with plant physiology. The first two levels, there's four levels in the plant health pyramid. The first two levels are simply a result of the plant becoming healthy enough, having all of the enzyme cofactors that it needs to form complete proteins and complete carbohydrates.
Many of our insects, such as leafhoppers and all the other larval insects, such as alfalfa, weevil and cornier worm and cabbage looper and tomato hornworm; there's a long list of these. All these larval insects are dependent. They can only utilise, as a food source, plants which don't have all of the enzyme cofactors. So if you supply a plant with all the enzyme cofactors that it requires and it begins forming complete proteins, you no longer have any insect susceptibility because they can't utilise them as a food source anymore, any more than we can use a grass or forages as a food source because our digestive system doesn't have a cellulose enzyme. We can't break down cellulose like a ruminant animal can and a larval insect cannot break down the complete proteins that our digestive system can because they have different digestive enzymes than we do.
So this is really the foundation of the plant health pyramid is developing complete proteins, developing complete carbohydrates by having a completely functioning enzyme system with all of the needed enzyme cofactors and you remove disease susceptibility and insect susceptibility as a result of doing that. "
