Biostimulant Efficacy Claims: Systematic Review of Trial Design and Effect Size Reporting

Authors

  • Frantiska Ferencik Department of Agronomy, Turiec Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Martin, Slovakia Author
  • Eugenia Dzieduszycki Department of Plant Physiology, Opolszczyzna Centre for Plant Genome Engineering, Opole, Poland Author
  • Jacinta Frazao Department of Biometrics, Charneca Centre for Plant Genome Engineering, Coruche, Portugal Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22666579

Keywords:

Biostimulant Efficacy Claims; Agricultural biotechnology; Gene editing; Evidence synthesis; Biosafety regulation

Abstract

Biostimulant Efficacy Claims has moved quickly from a research idea to something a working breeding or production programme
can actually use, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the current evidence for biostimulant
efficacy claims, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely
settled and where researchers and regulators are still largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption
looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance.

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