Top 3 Tips: Belén Torregrosa of Veganic on Understanding Plant Primers

For years, agriculture has focused on acting when the problem was already visible: stress, pest pressure, diseases, imbalances, or yield loss. However, plant biology shows us that plants are not passive organisms. They perceive their environment, interpret signals, communicate, remember, and respond.

Plants do not speak with words. They speak through molecules.

Every leaf, root, and tissue is part of a chemical communication network that allows the plant to detect field challenges and activate its own natural responses. Based on this knowledge, Veganic has developed Plant Primers, a new generation of biosolutions powered by NeoPrime^® technology.

Plant Primers do not seek to force an artificial reaction or keep the plant in a permanent state of alert. Their goal is to provide specific biological signals that the plant interprets as information, helping it prepare, adapt, and respond better when the crop needs it.

Belén Torregrosa, Head of Global Marketing at Veganic, provides three tips for making the most of plant primers.

1. Move from “Treating the Plant” to “Training the Plant”

Traditional agricultural inputs often work by applying substances to the crop and expecting a direct reaction. More recently, the industry has adopted the concept of priming: preparing the plant to react faster when a challenge appears.

Plant Primers go one step further: they propose moving from treatment to training.

At Veganic, we believe that plants do not only react. They also learn, remember, and adapt. That is why Plant Primers act as true plant trainers: they teach the plant to interpret signals, promote more efficient adaptive responses, help build physiological and epigenetic memory, and improve resilience to future challenges.

This difference matters. Preparing a plant can be a one-time action. Training a plant implies a deeper process: experience, learning, memory, and adaptation.

A trained plant is not in constant alert or consuming energy unnecessarily. It remains balanced, while becoming physiologically prepared to respond earlier, better, and more precisely when field challenges appear.

Its biological foundation is based on hormesis: small signals capable of triggering major adaptation processes. In other words, precise stimuli that do not exhaust the plant, but activate its natural ability to prepare and respond more efficiently.

2. Think of Molecules as Information, not Just Ingredients

In biological agriculture, we often talk about compounds, extracts, metabolites, or active substances, but the real paradigm shift is understanding these elements as biological information.

Plants use an invisible language made of molecular signals. Organic acids, bioactive molecules, volatile compounds, endogenous regulators, and hormonal pathways are all part of a true plant alphabet. Each signal can carry meaning, and each message can influence how the plant prepares, distributes its energy, or responds to stress.

NeoPrime^® technology is based on decoding this plant alphabet.

When compounds associated with NeoPrime^® come into contact with plant tissues, they are perceived as relevant biological information. This information can activate internal communication cascades related to hormonal, metabolic, and genetic pathways.

This is not simple nutrition. It is not generic stimulation. It is the transmission of specific biological instructions.

3. Build Resilience Through Physiological and Epigenetic Memory

One of the most fascinating aspects of modern plant biology is epigenetic memory. This process allows a plant to retain information from a previous experience without modifying its DNA sequence.

The genetic code remains the same, but the way certain genes are made available, silenced, or prepared for expression can change. In practical terms, the plant can “remember” a signal and respond more efficiently when a new challenge appears.

Plant Primers are built on this biological logic. The plant receives information that can support a stronger future response capacity. It is not about forcing a permanent reaction but about helping the crop build physiological and epigenetic readiness that improves the speed, precision, and coordination of its natural responses.

A prepared plant is not an exhausted plant. It is a more efficient plant.

This can translate into faster activation of its natural pathways, improved management of internal resources, increased production of secondary metabolites, changes in volatile compound profiles, tissue strengthening, better energy balance, and greater capacity to maintain productivity and quality under demanding conditions.

Plant Primers represent a new way of understanding agriculture: moving from treating symptoms to preparing systems; from applying inputs to transmitting instructions; from protecting the plant for the plant to teaching the plant to protect itself better.

The agriculture of the 20th century was largely built around chemistry. The agriculture of the 21st century will increasingly be built around biological information.

When we understand biology in depth, agriculture stops acting late and starts preparing better.

Because the future of agriculture is not about doing more for the plant. It is about enabling the plant to do more by itself.