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Composition for and method of stimulating growth of plants, e.g. increase in crop production. The composition comprises a carbon skeleton/energy component, typically a sugar or mixture of sugars; a macronutrient component providing the elements nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and calcium, preferably

Composition for and method of stimulating growth of plants, e.g. increase in crop production. The composition comprises a carbon skeleton/energy component, typically a sugar or mixture of sugars; a macronutrient component providing the elements nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and calcium, preferably also magnesium and sulfur; a micronutrient component providing zinc, iron and manganese, preferably also copper, boron, molybdenum and cobalt. The composition also preferably contains a vitamin/cofactor component and an enhancement component. The composition may be in the form of an aqueous solution or in a form suitable for coating seeds or coating pollen. It may be applied as a foliar spray, as a soil amendment, as a root dip or as an injectable solution. Preferably where, for example, it is used as a foliar spray it is applied at intervals at different stages of growth.The method is useful in treating vegetation to promote plant growth and/or crop production, also for treating pollen, seeds, roots and soil and inhibiting growth of insects and microorganisms. A formulation including an energy/carbon skeleton component, a macro nutrient component and a micro nutrient component is applied, e.g. in aqueous solution by foliar spraying. This is done in a manner to make optimum use of the inherent ability of vegetation to harvest solar energy and to utilize other sources of energy and carbon skeleton, such that the energy and nutrients applied by the method of the invention is a fraction of the energy and carbon skeleton requiremenets of the vegetation.

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1. A method of treating soil to promote the growth of plants therein, said method comprising mixing with the soil a composition comprising an assimilable carbon skeleton energy component, a macronutrient component, a micronutrient component, a vitamin/cofactor component and a complexing agent, where

1. A method of treating soil to promote the growth of plants therein, said method comprising mixing with the soil a composition comprising an assimilable carbon skeleton energy component, a macronutrient component, a micronutrient component, a vitamin/cofactor component and a complexing agent, wherein said complexing agent is at least one of: citric acid, lignosulfonates, fulvic acid, ulmic acid, humic acid, polyhydroxy organic acid, EDTA, EDDA, EDDHA, HEDTA, CDTA, DTPA and NTA.2. A method of treating soil to promote the growth of plants therein, said method comprising mixing with the soil a composition comprising an assimilable carbon skeleton energy component, trivalent nitrogen and pentavalent nitrogen, a micronutrient component, a vitamin/cofactor component and a complexing agent.3. The method according to claim 2 wherein the trivalent nitrogen is ammonia or urea and the pentavalent is nitrate.4. The method according to claim 2 wherein the amount of trivalent nitrogen ranges from 10 moles to 90 moles.5. The method according to claim 2 wherein the amount of pentavalent nitrogen ranges from 10 moles to 90 moles.6. The method of claim 2 wherein the ratio of trivalent nitrogen to pentavalent nitrogen is about 50:50.