Root Intelligence
What brassinosteroids do for stressed trees, Smilax does for your whole system.
The resilience of a forest begins in the soil. Our Forest Inoculant leverages natural brassinosteroid-analogous support to enhance root development, metabolic adaptation, and abiotic stress resilience in the land you tend.
Ecosystem Stewardship Applications
Miyawaki Dense Planting
Accelerate the establishment of dense, native micro-forests. The inoculant supports the intense early competition and rapid cooperative networks of the Miyawaki methodology. A May 2026 scientific review identified that Miyawaki method survival data remains sparse and unverified across most deployments. STIM.agri is building the first treated vs. untreated Miyawaki comparison dataset, with planting data tracked per plot, species, and treatment week. Benchmark from existing best-practice sites: 80% survival. Our treated plots are targeting above that threshold. Data available to research partners on request.
Transplant Resilience
Significantly reduce transplant shock and support rapid root re-establishment for high-value specimens, saplings, and mature trees undergoing site transitions.
Abiotic Stress Resistance
Equip crops and plants to tolerate environmental volatility, including heatwaves, drought periods, salinity spikes, and sudden temperature variations. Validated stress scenarios include: post-transplant photoinhibition, root zone thermal stress (Texas summer clay soil, sustained 95°F+), and drought-recovery cycling. The brassinosteroid-analogue pathway activates BES1/BZR1 transcription factor upregulation within 48-72 hours of application.
The Botanical Science
Our approach is grounded in the structural similarity between laxogenin (found in Smilax) and brassinosteroids, the master phytohormones regulating plant growth and stress response.
As highlighted in PubMed-indexed studies on structural homology, these botanical compounds interact with the same evolutionary resilience pathways that govern a plant's ability to maintain cell elongation, division, and vascular differentiation under stress.