Eucommia ulmoides is a precious Chinese medicinal material and health food raw material. Its main active ingredients include eucommia gum, eucommia polysaccharides, chlorogenic acid, and aucubin. The content and quality of these ingredients directly determine the efficacy and market value of Eucommia ulmoides. The growth environment of Eucommia ulmoides, especially the climatic conditions, greatly affects the accumulation of its active ingredients. The subtropical climate in Zhejiang and other places provides an ideal growth environment for Eucommia ulmoides, enabling it to enrich more highly active ingredients and improve its overall quality.
These ingredients play an important role in anti-oxidation, anti-inflammatory, and lowering blood pressure. Therefore, the temperature conditions of the subtropical climate play a key role in promoting the medicinal value of Eucommia ulmoides.
Adequate precipitation promotes growth
Eucommia ulmoides prefers a humid environment. The annual precipitation in subtropical areas is generally between 1,000 and 2,000 mm, which can effectively meet the growth needs of Eucommia ulmoides. Appropriate precipitation can promote the root system to absorb minerals, improve the photosynthesis efficiency of Eucommia ulmoides, and accumulate more active ingredients in its leaves and bark. In addition, higher air humidity can also reduce the evaporation of leaf water and maintain the stability of its active ingredients.
However, excessive precipitation may also have an adverse effect on the growth of Eucommia ulmoides. For example, water accumulation at the roots may cause diseases. Therefore, a reasonable drainage system is crucial to the planting base. During the planting process of Eucommia ulmoides, the drainage design will be optimized in combination with local climatic conditions to ensure that Eucommia ulmoides grows stably in a suitable humidity environment.
Light affects the synthesis of secondary metabolites
Light is the core factor for photosynthesis in plants, and the subtropical climate has a long sunshine time, with an average annual sunshine time of 1800 to 2200 hours, which provides sufficient light energy for Eucommia ulmoides. This light condition can not only promote the growth of Eucommia ulmoides, but also increase the content of its secondary metabolites.
The study found that under sufficient light conditions, the content of chlorogenic acid, flavonoids and eucommia gum in the leaves of Eucommia ulmoides will increase significantly.
The large temperature difference between day and night can stimulate plant metabolism and improve the synthesis efficiency of secondary metabolites such as sugars and flavonoids.
The main active ingredients of Eucommia ulmoides, such as Eucommia polysaccharides and aucubin, have a significantly increased accumulation rate under a large temperature difference between day and night, which means that the biological activity of Eucommia ulmoides is enhanced and the efficacy is more stable. Therefore, in the process of Eucommia ulmoides cultivation, the quality of Eucommia ulmoides can be further improved by rationally selecting areas with a large temperature difference between day and night or adopting scientific management measures.
How to optimize the growth environment of Eucommia ulmoides?
As a company focusing on high-quality Eucommia ulmoides extracts, we make full use of the natural advantages of the subtropical climate and further optimize the growth environment of Eucommia ulmoides through scientific management:
Precise temperature control: Select the best planting area to ensure that Eucommia ulmoides grows within the ideal temperature range of 15℃ to 30℃, and take shading or supplementary lighting measures to optimize the lighting conditions.
Scientific water management: Use modern irrigation technology to ensure that Eucommia ulmoides grows in a suitable water environment to avoid excessive watering or drought affecting plant health.
Efficient light optimization: Through reasonable close planting and pruning, the light receiving rate of the leaves is increased, so that Eucommia ulmoides can use sunlight more effectively and increase the synthesis rate of active ingredients.
Diurnal temperature difference control: Select areas with large diurnal temperature difference and combine appropriate agricultural management measures (such as mulching protection) to enhance the biological activity of Eucommia ulmoides.
The subtropical climate provides unique conditions for the growth of Eucommia ulmoides. Warm temperature, sufficient precipitation, good light and significant diurnal temperature difference jointly promote the accumulation of active ingredients in Eucommia ulmoides. Sunsourcebio makes full use of this natural advantage and combines it with modern agricultural technology to ensure that each batch of Eucommia ulmoides raw materials has high activity and excellent quality. In the future, with the development of climate-adaptive agricultural technology, the cultivation and processing of Eucommia ulmoides will be more scientific and standardized, providing higher quality natural health products to the global market.
