01 - WHAT IT IS

Drought isn't just a lack of water.

For a crop it's also a physiological imbalance: nutrient uptake, photosynthesis, growth, and regulation of stress responses all fall out of step. In addition to water absence, drought-like osmotic stresses come from other reasons (like water quality and heat) and all put more pressure on what plants acutally have available and how they can use it.

Quench was born from the question: When the water supply is limited and there is nothing you can do about it, how can we help crops preserve function with less?

at the cellular level

02 - HOW WE MADE IT

We let the environment decide.

Microbes are often discovered in labs under ideal conditions. This often has the unintended side effect of selecting for organisms that grow fast in comfortable conditions, but not those that hold up under environmental stress.

So, instead, we built a system where we allowed the environment to choose the best plant beneficial organisms. For Quench discovery, irrigation was reduced, and we tested performance of different species across variable crops and conditions, season after season.

A candidate only advanced if it stayed functionally engaged while crops were under real water stress and that engagement showed up as yield. Most candiate organisms didn't meet this bar. But the organims in Quench did, and as it turns out, they do complementary jobs.

the selection process

03 - HOW it works

Quench doesn't replace water. It helps crops do better with less.

primary mechanism

Osmotic adjustment

Helps plants regulate internal solute concentrations so tissues retain hydration and hold turgor under reduced irrigation.

BELOW GROUND

Expanding root systems

The consortium maintains root architecture, increasing surface area available for absorption.

NUTRITION

Maintaining nutrient flow

Even when water movement slows, the microbes keep transforming nutrients into plant-available forms.

04 - SURVEY

Tell us how limited water limits you.

Two minutes. Your answers help shape what we do next and go straight to our research team, not a marketing list.

~2 minutes      -      anonymous option

05 - join the waitlist

Get in line

Join the waitlist and we'll contact you with launch timing, pricing, and regional availability — and a limited number of pre-launch trial partners will be selected from this list.

- Launch notifications and early pricing

- Trial partner consdieration for the coming season

- Full trial data packets for your crop

06 - trial results

Tested and proven when water was short. And where it wasn't.

Replicated field and turf trials at reduced and full grower-standard irrigation. Full trial details available on request.

turf grass

+51%

Soil water content under stress

Held more water in soil than untreated control in both stressed and normal conditions.

melon

+88%

Marketable fruit mass, under full irrigation

Increased total marketable mass relative to UTC at 50%, 75%, and 100% of grower-standard irrigation.

beefsteak tomato

3 of 3

Irrigation rates with improved yield

Improved marketable fruit yield compared to UTC at 45%, 66%, and 100% of grower-standard irrigation.

bell pepper

+50%

Marketable mass at 61% irrigation

Drought-stressed plants matched untreated plants on full irrigation; and quality improved with less blossom-end rot.

Turf trials: Loveland, CO (2024) and Seville, ES (Feb–Jun 2025, Lolium perenne, 30 plots, 6 treatments, 5 reps). Vegetable trials used randomized block designs against an untreated control at reduced and full grower-standard irrigation rates. Contact us at info@impellobio.com for full trial details.