363results about "Agriculture" patented technology

Methods for using genetic marker genotype (e.g., gene sequence diversity information) to improve the process of developing plant varieties (e.g., single cross hybrids) with improved phenotypic performance are provided. Methods for predicting the value of a phenotypic trait in a plant are provided. The methods use genotypic, phenotypic, and optionally family relationship information for a first plant population to identify an association between at least one genetic marker and the phenotypic trait, and then use the association to predict the value of the phenotypic trait in one or more members of a second, target population of known marker genotype. Methods for identifying new allelic variants affecting the trait are also provided. Plants selected, provided, or produced by any of the methods herein, transgenic plants created by any of the methods herein, and digital systems for performing the methods herein are also provided.

Disclosed is a method for detecting additional relevant resources in relation to a predefined initial number of resources, consisting of the following steps: a) a set of referencing resources consisting of all resources being linked to at least one of the initial resources is detected; b) a set of potential resources consisting of all resources referenced by the referencing resources is established; c) for each potential resource, a potential-resource relevance score is calculated between said potential resource and all initial resources on the basis of existing links in the referencing resources to the potential resource and the initial resources, and also on the basis of the relevance scores of referencing resources assigned to each referencing resource; d) for each referencing resource, a referencing-resource relevance score is recalculated on the basis of links occurring in said referencing resource to the potential resources and also on the basis of the potential-resource relevance score assigned to the potential resources in step c); e) step c), and if necessary several times step d) followed by step c), is repeated if necessary; f) said additional relevant resources are identified as the potential resources having the highest potential-resource relevance scores.

A device for pollinating plants such as flowering trees. The device is a movable platform such as a drone that has an image capturing device that is in communication with image recognition software. Images of plants are analyzed to detect objects that are consistent with pollen-receiving plants and / or plant areas. Once such plant object is detected, the device automatically disperses pollen in the proximity of the detected plant or plant object.

A method manages information resources in a computer system. The method includes receiving user information from an input device. The user information is representative of a declaration that a second resource accessible by the system should be associated with a first resource. The method further includes storing in association with the second resource an identifier of the first resource. The method identifies other resources that are relevant with respect to the second resource using a relevance scoring process. The method further determines whether the second resource with respect to other relevant resources has a first identifier associated herewith when one of the other resources is to be accessed by the system for display, and if it does, displays signaling information distinct from the display of the other resource itself signaling of the existence of the first resource.

Methods of compiling a database of images of plant species and the use of the database to identify unknown plant species are described. Images of the apical complexes of the plant are obtained and stored in a database to allow a comparison of the apical complexes with unknown plant species. The invention provides a facile method for the identification of unknown or unidentified plant species.

Methods of compiling a database of images of plant species and the use of the database to identify unknown plant species are described. Images of the apical complexes of the plant are obtained and stored in a database to allow a comparison of the apical complexes with unknown plant species. The invention provides a facile method for the identification of unknown or unidentified plant species.

A solid culture method for antrodia camphora includes culturing mycelia with space bags and cultivating sporophores in air. The cultured product and its usage are also disclosed.

DNA encoding a plant quinolate phosphoribosyl transferase (QPRTase) enzyme, and constructs comprising such DNA are provided. Methods of altering quinolate phosphoribosyl transferase expression are provided.

A device for detecting and marking differences between two substrates, such as images or written text. The device has an image capturing device that is in communication with image recognition software. Images of a secondary images are analyzed and compared to a primary image to detect differences between the two. Once a difference is detected, the device automatically disperses a marking material in the proximity of the detected difference.

A rotary sprinkler having a rotatable nozzle assembly for watering an arc of ground traversed or swept by the nozzle assembly as the nozzle assembly rotates is disclosed. Oscillating rotation is achieved via a drive train that includes a trip spring that is drivable between first and second positions for reversing the direction of nozzle rotation. The sprinkler also includes: a variable trajectory nozzle; secondary opening adjacent the variable trajectory nozzle; an automatic break up screw configuration; a substantially constant speed turbine assembly; a bypass stator; a reversing cluster gear planetary drive with a unidirectional turbine; an overcenter reversing mechanism; a nozzle base clutch; an adjustable arc mechanism, solid arc limit stops, a snap ring installation method and an adjustable pilot valve which uses visual indicia.

A system and method for storing and retrieving preconfigured, hidden SyncML server profiles on a client is described. Conventionally, users of client devices need to manually configure the devices to allow for synchronization with new servers via SyncML. Preconfigured SyncML profiles allow a client to synchronize with a SyncML server without having to generate a new SyncML profile, thereby improving user experience. The preconfigured SyncML profiles may be hidden from a user or displayable to a user.

Methods for using genetic marker genotype (e.g., gene sequence diversity information) to improve the process of developing plant varieties (e.g., single cross hybrids) with improved phenotypic performance are provided. Methods for predicting the value of a phenotypic trait in a plant are provided. The methods use genotypic, phenotypic, and optionally family relationship information for a first plant population to identify an association between at least one genetic marker and the phenotypic trait, and then use the association to predict the value of the phenotypic trait in one or more members of a second, target population of known marker genotype. Methods for identifying new allelic variants affecting the trait are also provided. Plants selected, provided, or produced by any of the methods herein, transgenic plants created by any of the methods herein, and digital systems for performing the methods herein are also provided.

Methods and apparatus for a vision-based pollination system. The vision-based pollination system includes a mobile support apparatus configured to traverse a crop field. The mobile support apparatus supports a pollination liquid storage tank fluidly coupled to a plurality of pollen applicators. The apparatus includes pollination nodes including a vision system and a camera. Each pollination node is coupled to and controls a portion of the pollen applicators. In operation, the mobile support apparatus traverses the crop field, each pollination node repeatedly taking photographs of a portion of the crop field, identifying locations for delivering the pollination liquid, and determining when to operate the pollen applicators to deliver the pollination liquid to the identified locations as the vision-based pollination system traverses the crop field.

A device for detecting offending features on individual granular objects or small objects. The device uses an image capturing system to scan batches of granular or small objects such as wheat, grain, rice, seeds, legumes or nuts to detect any undesirable feature such as disease, mold or spoilage. An action head on the device is configured to automatically respond once an undesirable feature is identified. The action head may capture the individual objects having undesirable features or it may cast them aside.

A method is provided for bulk pollination of a plurality of plants. In various embodiments, the method includes collecting a plurality of known grains of pollen, loading the plurality of known grains of pollen into a bulk pollen distributing apparatus, sensing a target pollination location of each of the plurality of plants using an electronic sensor, and distributing the known grains of pollen to the plurality of plants with the bulk pollen distributing apparatus when the electronic sensor senses the target pollination location of each of the plants within a predefined proximity, thereby pollinating the plurality of plants. A plurality of plants may be prepared for controlled pollination by preventing pollination of the plurality of plants by an alternate pollen source. Known grains of pollen may be dispensed to create predetermined gamete crosses with known plants.

The present invention is directed to the seed-to-seed perpetuation of hybrid vigor and other traits through apomixis (asexual seed formation) in flowering plants (angiosperms). More particularly, to predictable methods for producing, from sexual or facultatively-apomictic plants, progeny plants that express an increased percentage of apomictic seed set or one or more elements of apomixis. This invention uses: plant cyto-embryology procedures to identify and select a plant or group of plants that possess appropriate genetic variability for initiation times and durations of megasporogenesis (female meiosis), embryo sac formation, egg and central cell formation and maturation, fertilization, embryony and endosperm formation; plant breeding procedures to produce numerous and divergent genetically-recombined early to late generation progeny such that embryo sac formation preempts megasporogenesis and embryony preempts fertilization; and plant cyto-embryology or progeny test procedures to select segregant plants that express an increased frequency of one or more elements of apomixis.

Camera for use in a system and system for detection of weeds and controlled application of herbicides, where the camera lens is protected from dust and mist by a generated air flow.

Apparatuses and methods for delivering pollen for the directed pollination of plants are provided herein. One example embodiment comprises a rigid tube having a first end, a second end, and a channel defined therebetween, wherein the rigid tube is configured to receive the tassel of the maize plant proximate the first end and to interact with the ear shoot of the maize plant proximate the second end, and wherein the channel defines a path between the tassel and the ear shoot so as to enable transfer of pollen from the tassel to the ear shoot. In another example embodiment, the rigid tube may be telescoping such that the overall length of the rigid tube may be adjustable. In another example embodiment, the apparatus may include a fan configured to propel air onto the tassel to aid in the transfer of pollen through the channel to the ear shoot. The apparatuses and methods are applicable for directed cross-pollination between different plants of the same species and plants of different species.

The invention discloses a plant hybridization system and application. The plant hybridization system consists of a sterile line, a maintainer line and a restorer line; the maintainer line contains a TWSD carrier, and the TWSD carrier at least simultaneously contains five closely linked expression frames, including the herbicide resistance gene expression frame, the plant endogenous herbicide resistance gene silencing or knocking-out expression frame, the sterile line fertility restoration expression frame, the expression frame capable of enabling maintainer line seeds to have a significant visible difference in color or shape in comparison with sterile line seeds, and the expression frame resulting in sterility of pollen containing the expression frame above. The biggest improvement of thehybridization system is that the reliability and stability of the whole hybridization system are greatly ensured by combining with a color / shape marking technology, a herbicidal selective killing technology and a transgenic pollen lethal technology, and the purity of hybrid seeds is ensured through multiple technologies, and the average purity is improved from 95% to 98%.

Disclosed are isolated nucleic acid molecules from Solanum tuberosum which are capable of conferring resistance against plant pathogens including Phytophthora infestans. Transgenic plants and plant cells comprising the nucleic acid molecules are also disclosed.

The invention provides DNAs encoding a weed controller metabolism protein selected from the following groups, which are useful in, for example, constructing a weed controller-tolerant plant. Proteins having an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1, 2, 3, 108, 159, 160, 136, 137, 138, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223 or 224. Proteins having an amino acid sequence showing a sequence identity of 80% or more with one of the amino acid sequences represented by SEQ ID NOS: 1, 2, 3, 108, 159, 136, 137, 138, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223 or 224, or an amino acid sequence showing a sequence identity of 90% or more with one of the amino acid sequences represented by SEQ ID NO: 160, 215, 216, 218, 222 and 224, and being capable of converting the compound represented by the following formula II into the compound represented by the following formula III in the presence of an electron transfer system from an electron donor.

The invention relates to a harvester crane, which includes a set of booms, which are attached by means of a pedestal and rotating device to a chassis machine, in which the set of booms includes a main boom, which is pivoted at its lower end by a lower pivot to the pedestal; and an articulated boom, which is pivoted by an upper pivot to the opposite end of the main boom and which extends its path mainly forward from the main boom; operating devices, i.e. a lift device and a transfer device, operating the booms. The lower pivot of the main boom is located low down near to the rotating device and the pedestal is fork-shaped, the lower arm and the lift cylinder being located at least partly inside it.

The embodiment of the invention discloses pollination and spraying equipment and system. The equipment comprises: a movement device which does linear movement along a transverse rod; a control device is arranged above the movement device; a medicine box is arranged below the movement device; a mechanical arm is arranged below the medicine box; one end of the mechanical arm is connected with the bottom of the medicine box; a nozzle is arranged at the other end of the mechanical arm and is suspended; the nozzle is connected with one end, clung to an outer wall of the mechanical arm, of a guide pipe; the other end of the guide pipe is communicated with a liquid outlet of the medicine box; a photographing device is further arranged below the medicine box; the photographing device is in communication connection with the control device and is used for sending a picture to the control device; whether a target inflorescence exists or not is judged by the control device according to the picture. The pollination and spraying equipment and system disclosed by the embodiment of the invention can replace artificial pollination and the pollination effect and the pollination efficiency are improved.

The invention belongs to an unmanned aerial vehicle pollination device and a method thereof. The unmanned aerial vehicle pollination device comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle, wherein a rotor wing is arranged above the unmanned aerial vehicle; an air outlet flow passage is hung under the unmanned aerial vehicle; a pollen outlet passage is arranged under the air outlet passage; an air outlet of the air outlet flow passage is arranged above a pollen outlet of the pollen outlet flow passage; the air outlet and the pollen outlet are in horizontal arrangement; an air suction fan is arranged at apollen inlet of the pollen outlet flow passage; an air inlet of the air outlet flow passage is arranged under the rotor wing. The unmanned aerial vehicle pollination device can suck the pollen and horizontally spray out the pollen to the two sides of the unmanned aerial vehicle; the pollen can be diffused to a wider space through an airflow sprayed out from the air outlet. The unmanned aerial vehicle pollination method can improve the pollen utilization rate and can improve the artificial pollination efficiency.

The invention discloses a pollination device for agricultural production. The pollination device comprises a pushing frame, a pollen storage box top cover, a pollination nozzle, a pollination device,a movable side cover, a bottom plate, damping castors and a detachable storage battery, wherein the pollination device is arranged at a central position on the top of the bottom plate, and the bottomplate and the pollination device are in interference fit; the pollination nozzle is arranged on the top of the pollination device, and the pollination device and the pollination nozzle are matched with each other; the pollination device can rapidly output pollens from a pollen delivery hose inside a lifting rod by virtue of an automatic pollen delivery mechanism and sprays the pollens onto fruit trees by utilizing the pollination nozzle; the lifting rod can perform height adjustment according to heights of the fruit trees and is matched with an automatic lifting rod rotation mechanism, so thatthe lifting rod uniformly rotates so as to improve the pollen spreading range. After pollen spraying is completed, a pipeline inside the pollination device is cleaned by utilizing a watering mechanism, and water is uniformly sprayed onto the fruit trees, so that the pollens are stuck in flower buds and prevented from blowing away by wind so as not to cause waste, and the fruit setting percentageof the fruit trees is further improved.