Essere Group launches Leverage HLK for nematode control

The Essere Group is launching the Leverage HLK product at Agrobrasília 2023, produced by Kimberlit Agrociências, a company belonging to the Essere Group Holding, which operates in the specialized nutrition, biostimulation, plant health and application technology segment.

Leverage HLK is a complex of organic and inorganic substances that physiologically activate defense genes, giving plants greater resistance. This is one of the technologies that the Essere Group uses in SIM – Integrated Management System – to control nematodes.

Leverage HLK is a bioactive protector that stimulates plants to develop and activate tolerance mechanisms to pests and diseases, called biotic stresses, as well as to water deficit, thermal amplitude, phytotoxicity, which are called abiotic stresses. It induces plants to produce secondary metabolites, protein secretions and antinematoid compounds, increasing the rigidity of cell walls, making it difficult for nematodes and soil pathogens to penetrate.

During the fair, researchers and managers will be present at the company's stand to guide producers on how to use the product. Among them is researcher Paulo Santos, nematologist at the Phytus-Staphyt Institute, Essere Group product manager Bruno Neves, Kimberlit agronomist Airton Trentini, as well as other members of the Group's technical staff and commercial sector.