191 results about "Cultigen" patented technology

The invention relates to a plant growth regulator composition containing maleic hydrazide and the purposes thereof. The composition contains maleic hydrazide (A) and a combination of known plant growth regulators, such as paclobutrazol, uniconazole, cycocel, mepiquat chloride, triapenthenol, daminozide, ethephon, taterpex and thidiazuron, wherein the weight ratio of the (A) to the (B) is 1: 300 to 500:1 and preferable 1:100 to 300:1, the (A) and the (B) can be proportioned with known aids and an excipient to prepare any agriculturally acceptable preparation; and the agriculturally acceptable preparation can be diluted with water or soil into a needed concentration of 1-8000 mg/kg, preferable 50-5000 mg/kg and used for regulating the growth of cultured plants, such as hedge plants, lawns, landscape plants, fruit trees, vegetables, economic crops, food oil crops and forage grass through the treatments of irrigation, flood irrigation, fertilization with water, jetting, spraying, scattering, smearing, injecting, transfusing, dressing seeds, spreading fertilizer, dispersing, and the like. The composition has the advantages of wide range of applications, low cost, good effect and synergy.

A method for cultivating plants is described. The method comprises the steps of sowing seeds in the growing medium in sterilised pots (17) using a sowing device (7), allowing the seeds to germinate in a germination device (8), automatically moving the pots through a greenhouse (2) to allow the germinated seeds to grow into plants (43), harvesting the grown plants using a harvester (5), and sterilising the pots with the growing medium in a sterilisation device (6) after harvest in order to provide sterilised pots (17) with a growing medium. An arrangement for performing the method is also described.

The invention discloses a seawater endurable ecological floating floor, and relates to a plant growth carrier. The invention provides a seawater endurable ecological floating floor which is used for the plant restoration in an eutrophicated seawater environment, a floating floor fixing device and a plant restoration method in the eutrophicated seawater environment. The floating floor is provided with a floor body and cultured plants; the floor body is provided with two layers of plastic films; a foam bar is arranged between the two layers of plastic films; the foam bar is provided with culture holes; and fixing rings are arranged on the circumference of the two layers of plastic films. The fixing device is provided with fixing piles and fixing ropes; the fixing piles are fixed under water; and the fixing ropes are connected with the fixing piles. The restoration method comprises the following steps: preparing the floor body of the floating floor; driving the fixing piles under water and fixing one end of each fixing rope onto the fixing piles along the water flow direction; planting the salt endurable restoration plants into the culture holes through cuttage and transporting the plants to a restoration area; connecting the fixing rings and the fixing ropes, and adjusting the tightness of the fixing ropes so as to make the fixing ropes float up and down with the flux and reflux of the tide; and adjusting the salt endurable restoration plants according to the growth status and restoration effects of the salt endurable restoration plants.

A system for the cultivation of plants, including: a cultivation table, in which the plants to be cultivated have been placed at least for the time of the growing stage; growing substrates in which the seeds of the plant are sown and which are placed at the initial end of the cultivation table for germination; and elongated troughs which hold the growing substrates in which troughs also the seeds and seedlings of the plant as well as the grown plants are placed during both said germination and said growing stage. In the method for cultivation of plants in a greenhouse, a growing substrate for the cultivation of plants is placed in an elongated trough, and seeds of a plant are sown in said growing substrate placed in the trough.

The invention relates to an organic biological multi-element plant nutrient polymer and a production method thereof and belongs to the field of agriculture. Multiple plant nutrients dispersed in agricultural solid waste are quickly gathered through an organic biological fermentation technology; due to industrial processing, nutrient bodies or nutrient blocks are prepared, so that a supporting solid and a nutrient supplier are supplied to cultivation of plants. According to the organic biological multi-element plant nutrient polymer and the production method thereof, the included plant nutrient elements are gathered together through a technical measure of organic biological fermentation and decomposition of the agricultural solid waste and are used for development of ecological agriculture and recycling agriculture; therefore, the environment pollution is solved, and the scientific support is supplied to the construction of beautiful countries.

The invention relates to a method of enhancing the seed yield and promoting the growth of monocotyledonous or dicotyledonous plants by overexpression of TMT (tonoplast monosaccharide transporter) protein in osogenic or transgenic plant cells. The invention further concerns a transgenic plant having the property of an enhanced seed yield and increased growth as compared with the wild type, comprising a nucleotide sequence which codes for a TMT (tonoplast monosaccharide transporter) protein, as well as a regulatory nucleotide sequence, operably linked therewith, for the control of an increased gene expression of the TMT protein in the plant cells of the transgenic plant. It further relates to the use of the transgenic plant for the cultivation or production of cultivated plants or useful plants, or biomass, oils or proteins produced therefrom.

Provided are genetic material and nucleic acid sequences useful of increasing yield, biomass, growth rate, vigor, nitrogen use efficiency and/or abiotic stress tolerance, preferably tolerance to nutrient deficiency of a plant. Specifically, the improvement of nitrogen fixation properties in cultivated plants is described.

A system for regulating the supply of conditioned gases to an environmentally controlled enclosure. A greenhouse or warehouse in which plants are grown are supplied with gases having a controlled absolute humidity, temperature, and carbon dioxide content. The properties of exhaust gas from the environmentally controlled enclosure are measured, and the mass of bone dry gas provided, the absolute humidity, temperature, and carbon dioxide content in the enclosure are maintained, and the transpiration rate of plants in the enclosure is measured by comparing properties of conditioned gas at the inlet with exhaust gas exhausted from the enclosure, in order to enhance transpiration of the plants in the enclosure, to allow the grower to maximize growth or other selected properties of the plants under cultivation.

The invention discloses a night self-priming cultivation container and a manufacturing method thereof, and belongs to the field of facility horticulture and soilless cultivation. The container comprises a planting tank, a water storage tank and a night soil self-priming tube, wherein the planting tank has a container structure, can be filled with a culture medium for cultivating plants and is arranged on the water storage tank; the water storage tank has the container structure; the night soil self-priming tube is arranged in the water storage tank; the top end of the night soil self-priming tube is provided with an opening, while the bottom end is closed; the tube wall of the night soil self-priming tube is provided with a plurality of through holes; and the top of the night soil self-priming tube passes through the bottom plate of the planting tank and is communicated with the planting tank. The cultivation container manufactured by the method has the advantages of obvious water and fertilizer saving effects, convenient management and popularization, and capability of cultivating the plants by using various medium materials.

The invention discloses a base fertilizer for garden cultivation. The base fertilizer is prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: 30-50 parts of straw, 20-40 parts of dry animal manure, 30-50 parts of Cassava residue, 10-20 parts of ore powder, 1-3 parts of microbial fermentation inoculum, 10-30 parts of fruit peel and 10-20 parts of plant ash. The base fertilizer for garden cultivation is wide in raw material sources and simple to prepare; the base fertilizer is prepared by pulverizing the raw materials and then mixing the pulverized raw materials; after being applied, the base fertilizer can keep a long-time fertilizer effect, thereby avoiding frequent fertilizer application; and after the base fertilizer is applied, the survival rate of plants cultivated in a garden can be improved, and the growth speed can be increased.

The invention relates to a method for pray-cultivating vegetables in a planting tube. The top of a building is provided with a nutrient solution allocation box provided with a solar heating system and a vegetable cultivating system of the in-tube spray nutrient solution arranged on the building; and the special formula of the spray cultivating vegetables in the planting tube ensures the growing development of the vegetables. The method reduces the operating cost of cultivating vegetables in a high-rise building, makes the vegetable cultivation develop towards space, thereby facilitating the solving of the problem of land shortage on the one hand, and solving the problem of urban environmental air pollution, particularly the tropical island effect on the other hand, so that the method has good application prospect.

This invention consists of a consortium of plant-growth promoting microorganisms including Pseudomonas stutzeri, Pseudomonas denitrificans, Pseudomonas resinovorans, Pseudomonas brassicacearum, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Shimwellia blattae and Klebsiella oxytoca. The bacterial consortium along with a vehicle suitable for agricultural application, form a biofertilizer useful to enhance agricultural yield when applied to cultivation plants. The biofertilizer described present a long shelf life and preserve a high cell density along the time.

A cultivating apparatus includes a carrier, a fresh air supply, a humidifying mechanism, an illuminating mechanism, a blower mechanism, a sterilizing pool and a controlling mechanism. The fresh air supply, the humidifying mechanism, the illuminating mechanism, the blower mechanism, the sterilizing pool and the controlling mechanism are inserted in or supported on the carrier. Thus, the cultivate apparatus is movable and operable to control temperature, humidity, air quality and irradiation for cultivating of plants or mushrooms.

The invention provides a herbicide composition consisting of 2-[(4,6-dimethoxypyrimidin-2-yl)hydroxy-methyl]-6-methoxymethyl-N-difluoromethanesulfonylanilide as the component (A) and any compound selected from more than 20 kinds of specific compounds such as orbencarb and the like as the component (B), heretofore not combined with the component (A) compound. Dispensation of the herbicide composition to paddy fields, lawns, dry fields, or non-agricultural lands gives excellent weed-controlling effects on a variety of weeds and causes no or little phytotoxicities on valuable cultivated plants.

A plant-cultivating method is provided which comprises a red light irradiation step (A) and a blue light irradiation step (B), wherein the step (A) and the step (B) are independently carried out for a predetermined period of time under cultivation conditions such that the concentration of carbon dioxide in a cultivation atmosphere at the step (B) is higher than that at the step (A). Preferably the concentrations of carbon dioxide at the step (B) and the step (A) are 1000-2500 ppm and 700-1500 ppm, respectively. The concentration of carbon dioxide at the step (B) is preferably at least 200 ppm higher than that at the step (A).