Improves stress tolerance.
Protects plants from heat, drought, cold, salinity and UV
Promotes antioxidants
Improves flavour and colour
Improved maturity in high UV growing conditions
Reduces disease susceptibility
Indra is a product that improves growth and quality of crops by helping them cope with stress caused by heat, cold, salinity, drought and high UV light. Stress causes crops to produce toxins (ROS) that damage cells and reduce quality.
Indra promotes the plant’s own antioxidant production and supplies the nutrients needed to make their manufacture possible. Indra can help protect crops from loss of quality and yield, improve colour, and reduce susceptibility to disease.
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evity’s scientists understand how crops respond to stress; this is helping us find ways to help crops help themselves. Indra has been created to enable farmers to use high salt irrigation water without losing yields, and to help crops carry on growing when hit by stressful growing conditions. Our research shows that stimulating the plant’s ability to protect itself from toxins produced when stressed can lift yield and quality in all crops.
The whole world relies on plants to use energy from sunlight to make food, but the wrong balance of sunlight can damage crops. In the Southern hemisphere, the ozone layer is thinner and more UVB rays get through the atmosphere and onto crops. Indra can stimulate production of antioxidants to give growers better crops.
In arid and semi-arid parts of the world, overuse of groundwater aquifers is leading to seawater in infiltration. Over time the level of salt in the water fed to crops in many parts of the world is increasing, and it is reducing the yield of the crops it used to. Levity’s research shows that by helping plants remove toxins that accumulate when they take in salty water, yield loss can be prevented. Indra helps farmers get higher yields with better quality.
The climate is changing and weather patterns are becoming less predictable. More crops are losing yield due to periods of high or low temperatures. By priming crops to allow them to cope when the weather gets tough, Indra helps farmers to safeguard yields and quality.
Stress weakens plant cells, and increases the level and severity of disease. Indra reduces the impact of stress producing stronger crops that are better able to resist disease. Levity’s research is demonstrating that managing stress can significantly reduce incidence of many fungal diseases.
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At levity, we know that science makes the difference. Our team of scientist’s regularly upload insights explaining the science behind our products, and why it works so well.
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Avocado crops, particularly Hass type varieties, can suffer from having small fruit. This is associated with stress which increases the proportion of small fruit on the tree. Here we explore why...
Boron is a tricky nutrient to get right, as there is significant variation between crops in the way they transport and metabolise it. On avocado it is more complicated than on many crops due to its...
At Levity our research team has a strong focus on abiotic stress, which is the main limiting factor in Southern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for both yield and quality of crops. Here we...
Using Nutritional Products More Efficiently Levity are at the forefront of research into nutrient use efficiency with research programmes on all major crop nutrients. Our work is helping reduce the amount of fertiliser needed whilst lifting yield and crop quality. In...
June 27th 2016 armers in the Southern hemisphere growing soft and top fruit crops have to work harder to get colour, and shelf-life and to reduce physiological disorders. In this...
Indra improves growth and quality of crops when they are under sress such as: salinity, drought, heat and cold.
Independent research was conducted at Lancaster university (2012) to look at the effect of Indra on salinity stressed tomatoes. In this first experiment, Indra with Redox technology was tested against the same nutrients but without Redox. It found that Indra reversed the effect of salinity on stomatal conductance in tomato. The same nutrients without Indra’s Redox Chemistry had no effect.
The tomatoes plant stomatal conductance was measured, if stomatal conductance is low then the crop is trying to preserve its water reserves and has negative impacts on gaseous excanges needed photosynthesis.
*MFN=Micro Nutrient Formulation – This is the same nutrients Indra but without Indra’s Redox Technology
Saline irrigation water significantly reduces photosynthesis in tomato plants. Applying the nutrients alone did not help the plant, but applying Indra (same nutrients plus Redox technology) allowed normal photosynthesis despite high salt levels.
Further research measured the tomato plants sodium concentration. In all three treatments, salt irrigation caused a significant rise in sodium concentration in tomato plants. This demostraits that Indra does not prevent salt uptake, it’s effects are due to increased ability of the plants to tolerate the salt.
The research also looked into yield effects of Indra, both on unstressed tomato plants and salt stressed tomato plants.
Indra allows crops to tolerate salinity. It maintains normal stomatal conductance and photosynthesis this results in not only maintaining yield where salinity is present but also increased yield under non saline irrigation.
An indepependent trial was conducted in Tzaneen, South Africa (2018/19). This trial looked at the effect of Indra on salt stressed avocado.
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Crop |
Application |
Amount |
Frequency |
Impact |
Tomato, Pepper, |
Foliar apply | 1L Per Ha | Every 4-6 weeks during periods of stress | Protects from stress, better growth, increased yield, and improved quality |
Apple, Pear, Cherry |
Foliar apply | 1L Per Ha | Every 4-6 weeks during periods of stress | Protects from stress, better growth, increased yield, and improved quality |
Citrus |
Foliar apply | 1L Per Ha | Every 4 weeks during periods of stress | Protects from stress, better growth, increased yield, and improved quality |
Soft Fruits |
Foliar apply | 1L Per Ha | Every 4 weeks during periods of stress | Protects from stress, better growth, increased yield, and improved quality |
Grapes |
Foliar apply | 1L Per Ha | Every 4 weeks during periods of stress | Protects from stress, better growth, increased yield, and improved quality |
Banana |
Foliar apply | 1L Per Ha | Every 4 weeks | Protects from stress, better growth, increased yield, and improved quality |
Potato |
Foliar apply | 1L Per Ha | Every 4 weeks during periods of stress | Protects from stress, better growth, increased yield, and improved quality |
Dragon Fruit |
Foliar apply | 1L Per Ha | Every 4 weeks during periods of stress | Protects from stress, better growth, increased yield, and improved quality |
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