63 results about "Plant productivity" patented technology

The present invention relates to a method for improving plant productivity, and in particular crop yields, via the introduction of an endophytic microorganism to the subject plant. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a method for improving cereal crop productivity via the introduction of an endophytic actinomycete to the subject crop. The method of the present invention facilitates the improvement of crop productivity, such as increasing germination, by, inter alia, providing the subject plant with disease bio-control capabilities and up-regulating plant growth promoting activities. The present invention is also directed to novel endophytic microorganisms and uses thereof.

Methods for identifying one or more amino acid substitutions in a Rubisco large subunit polypeptide (variant) that confer increased Rubisco activity in a unicellular photosynthetic organism and transferring those substitutions to a Rubisco large subunit polypeptide of a higher plant cell are described herein. Methods and compositions for modulating plant productivity using the modified Rubisco large subunit polypeptide variants are provided. The Rubisco large subunit sequences are used in a variety of methods including increasing plant productivity in a plant. Transformed plants, plant cell, tissues, seed, and expression vectors are also provided.

The present invention relates to eco-friendly compositions and methods for providing plant growth enhancing formulations comprising mixtures of microbial isolates. In particular, numerous bacterial and fungal strains were isolated from a variety of soil types, from rhizospheres and from root nodules of leguminous plants, in designed combinations, for providing plant growth and plant productivity enhancing formulations. These specifically designed polymicrobial formulations would further provide protection against plant pathogens lowering the need for nitrogen containing fertilizers, solubilize minerals, protect plants against pathogens, and make available to the plant valuable nutrients, such as phosphate, thus reducing and eliminating the need for using chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides.

The invention relates to a natural plant growth regulator as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The regulator contains the following components: 60-95 parts of plant distillate, 0-4.0 parts of glycine, 0-3.5 parts of glutamic acid, 0-2.0 parts of gamma-aminobutyric acid, 0-1.5 parts of salicylic acid and 0-0.5 part of jasmonic acid; moreover, total dosage of the glycine, the glutamic acid, the gamma-aminobutyric acid, the salicylic acid and the jasmonic acid is more than 0 part. The regulator, in which major components are derived from plant extracts, has a characteristic of being pure natural; by regulating a physiological status of plants, improving a physiological function of the plants and supporting healthy energy, the regulator can improve the plant productivity and a capacity for resisting external adverse environment so as to achieve a purpose; by enhancing an osmotic adjustment ability of plants as well as a water use efficiency and a cell membrane stability of the plants, capacities of early weaning and responding to adverse environment of the plants are enhanced, so that purposes of improving drought resistance, salt resistance and cold resistance of the plants are achieved; moreover, the regulator can inhibit diseases and insect pests and can resist continuous cropping.

A vulcanizable rubber composition is provided that comprises an elastomer, a reinforcing filler comprising silica or a mixture thereof with carbon black, a silica dispersing aid comprising about 0.1 to about 15 phr poly(vinyl acetate) (PVA), and a cure agent. The addition of PVA to the composition improves the processability of the compound, improves the tear strength and modulus of the rubber and can reduce the number of mixing stages during compounding, resulting in lowering of the cost of operation and increasing plant productivity without compromising the processability or other physical properties of the stocks. Also provided are a vulcanizate formed from vulcanizing the rubber composition, a tire component formed from the vulcanized rubber and a process for forming the tire component.

In order to achieve food and energy security, while at the same time eliminating the “food vs. biofuel” conflict, a transformational three dimensional multilayer farming, MLF, is presented. This exploits the third dimension. This goal is realizable by the disclosed means and methods to increase the 3D plant productivity, 3D yield, ton / m3 / year, using ultra-compact ultra high density vertical structures. Each layer in the MLF system comprises at least one string of SanSSoil Growth Elements, SGEs, each designed to carry out multiple functions essential to sustain plant growth, and constructed in a manner to integrate these functions at low-cost. The networked strings of SGEs in each layer provide near self-sufficiency for growth, and in an integrated MLF system, achieve maximum vertical compactness and highest growth density. The multi-functions of each integrally made SGE include: germination, growth sustenance, localized delivery of nutrients, environment sensing, and localized delivery of illumination.

Recombinant bacterial strains comprising heterologous nif genes in its genome, and capable of fixing nitrogen. The strain may be, for example, a recombinant Pseudomonas fluorescens strain comprising heterologous nif genes in its genome. An inoculum and a method for increasing plant productivity are further described.

The invention discloses a cucumber cultivation method. The cucumber cultivation method includes the following the steps of seed processing, land selection, land preparation, seed sowing, planting, plant management, plant disease and insect pest prevention and curing, and timely harvesting. A cucumber cultivated through the method grows well, and is high in growth speed, high in yield and good in quality, and therefore plant diseases and insect pests are reduced, and the pesticide consumption is lowered. Nanometer jade powder is contained in soil conditioners, a large number of trace elements beneficial to the human body are contained in the nanometer jade powder, and the trace elements are beneficial to the human body after being absorbed by plants and converted through food chains. Meanwhile, adsorption ingredients are contained in the soil conditioners, poisonous heavy metal elements in the soil can be effectively adsorbed and solidified, the heavy metal elements absorbed by the plants are reduced, and the plant productivity can be improved.

Recombinant bacterial strains comprising heterologous nif genes in its genome, and capable of fixing nitrogen. The strain may be, for example, a recombinant Pseudomonas fluorescens strain comprising heterologous nif genes in its genome. An inoculum and a method for increasing plant productivity are further described.

The present invention provides novel microbial inoculant compositions for uses in promoting plant growth, plant productivity and / or soil quality. The novel microbial inoculant compositions comprise one or more microbial species, one or more urease inhibitors and / or nitrification inhibitors. The present invention also provides fertilizer compositions comprising said microbial inoculant compositions.

There is provided, in a preferred embodiment, a hydroponic apparatus for growing plants within a confined space. Plants rooted in removable containers are placed within a receptacle that rotates on a vertical axis. During hydroponic fertilization a recirculating system delivers and transfers the nutrient solution to and from the receptacle. The plant container in the preferred embodiment allows for removal, replacement, and repositioning of plants within the receptacle. The preferred method increases the photosynthetic service area of the light source in a confined space by arranging a plurality of hydroponic apparatus beneath the light source. The combination of removable containers and rotating receptacles with a plural arrangement of apparatuses prevents algae growth, empowers the grower with plant manageability, and amplifies plant productivity.

The present invention relates to a method for modulating plant processes said method being characterized in that a plant is fed with an eco-friendly, plant- and / or algae-derived, biostimulant composition comprising exogenous small RNA molecules. In particular, the method of the invention can be used for modulating physiological or pathological plant processes, such plant growth, plant productivity, fruit quality, quality of produce, plant yield, plant response to abiotic stress and plant resistance to diseases or to infections.

A system and method of combining plant productivity testing data with environmental data and geographic data of testing sites in a computer program comprising at least one database for receiving, storing, analyzing and outputting the data.

The present invention relates to eco-friendly compositions and methods for providing plant growth enhancing formulations comprising mixtures of microbial isolates. In particular, numerous bacterial and fungal strains were isolated from a variety of soil types, from rhizospheres and from root nodules of leguminous plants, in designed combinations, for providing plant growth and plant productivity enhancing formulations. These specifically designed polymicrobial formulations would further provide protection against plant pathogens lowering the need for nitrogen containing fertilizers, solubilize minerals, protect plants against pathogens, and make available to the plant valuable nutrients, such as phosphate, thus reducing and eliminating the need for using chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides.

The present invention relates to methods and uses for improving traits in plants which are important in the field of agriculture. In particular, the methods and uses of the invention use a plant Hsf to increase plant productivity, water use efficiency, drought or pathogen resistance.

This invention describes discovery and development of a biological system of plant growth promotion and environmental improvement by carbon sequestration and / or nitrogen utilization by application of a microbial agent, e.g., a highly effective strain of T. viride, particularly strains NRRL B-50520 and / or K5. This strain outperforms the best current strains of Trichoderma used for this purpose available commercially. The highly active products also are expected to increase plant productivity and improve quality of fruits, vegetables, flowers or other plant products. The invention also describes and demonstrates that strain combinations including Bacillus amyloliquifaciens AS2 or AS3, as well as disclosed metabolites, promote plant growth. This is true across monocots and dicots, seed treatments and foliar sprays. In the field plant height, shoot weight, root weight, and photosynthesis (Spad meter readings) were all increased in comparison to the untreated control as well as the leading biological seed treatments. The invention also describes metabolite utilization for enhancing plant growth.

A method of treating plant and animal systems and inanimate surfaces for the purposes of controlling plant pests, introducing pesticides and nutrients into plants, mitigating frost damage to plants, increasing crop yields, controlling certain plant diseases, controlling arthropod, bacterial, fungal, mycoplasma, rickettsia, and viral pests of animals and humans, and disinfecting inanimate surfaces. The method utilizes the unique multi-directional dispersion property of the tannate complex of picro ammonium formate and the tannate complex of picro cupric ammonium formate, in aqueous solution, combined with a minor amount of a surfactant sufficient to prevent formation of ammonium picrate, to penetrate plant and animal systems and inanimate surfaces and travelling multidirectionally therein. The method is carried out by introducing a small but effective amount of the tannate complex to the plant or animal system or inanimate surface.

The invention provides a method for restoring ecology in northern riverbank sand mining site, and belongs to the sand mining site ecology restoration method technology field. The method comprises arranging and improving sand mining site soil matrix, and comprises the steps of first plowing original soil matrix, namely removing sand generated in the process of sand mining on the face of land mainly to expose original habitat matrix; manufacturing a small habitat, namely digging a fish scale pit on the sand mining site covered by soil; selecting plant species, namely selecting herbaceous plants or woody plants; planting the plants; managing at a seedling stage, namely irrigating by pouring or sprinkling, and fertilizing with an organic fertilizer. The protruding characteristics of the present invention are that vegetation restoration and habitat restoration are integrated, so that vegetation coverage rate can be obviously improved; plant habitat can be improved; ecological system can be enhanced; water and soil can be maintained; and pollutant can be degraded. An experiment shows that the vegetation coverage rate is raised by 40%-60%, and the plant productivity is raised by more than 30%-50%. The method plays an important role in maintaining regional ecology safety and grain production safety.

The invention discloses a rock worm-gracilaria-sea cucumber pond mixing breeding method. A stereoscopic mixing breeding can be implemented in the inshore breeding ponds by manually putting in sea cucumbers, rock worms and gracilaria seedlings. Breeding space and nutrient substance of the sea cucumber pond can be effectively utilized to be converted into gracilaria plant productivity, wherein the gracilaria plant productivity is provided with economic value. Pond eutrophication can be prevented from happening. Pond sedimentary organic particulate matters of sea cucumber excrements and the like can be effectively utilized as baits for rock worms. Polluting rate of pond bottom which is caused by excessive accumulation of sea cucumber excrements can be reduced. Then, breeding benefits of a pond unit can be improved. Because the rock worms are high in economic value, benefit rate of a yield per unit area of the mixing breeding can be enhanced for 1-2 times. The rock worms can be caught in one time through a labor excavating method every three years. Pond bottom dredging and substrate renovation can be implemented at the same time in the catching process. The difficulty that substrate sludge of common aquaculture ponds of a common pond can not be cleared for a long time can be overcome.

An object of the present invention is to provide a transformed plant which has high photosynthesis activity, and has promoted growth and productivity as compared with a wild strain, and has no fear of diffusion of an introduced gene by pollens, by expressing a trait of a specified gene by chloroplast technology in a higher plant. According to the present invention, there is provided a transformed plant using a gene recombinant vector having an expression cassette for enhancing photosynthesis activity, containing a DNA fragment comprising a gene encoding a protein having fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase activities between a nucleotide sequence complementary to the chloroplast gene rbcL and the chloroplast gene aacD.

The present disclosure provides agricultural compositions and methods of using these compositions to increase plant growth, pathogen resistance and drought tolerance. The agricultural compositions disclosed herein comprise mixtures of mutualistic beneficial fungi such as Laccaria bicolor and Piriformispora indica, and bacterial strains of Pseudomonas.

Variant phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) genes are described. The encoded PEPC variants contain amino acid substitutions and have altered kinetic and / or regulatory properties with respect to wild-type PEPC. A variant PEPC gene may be expressed in a plant to improve one or more traits such as CO2 assimilation rate, water use efficiency, and yield.

The present invention relates to microbial inoculants, fertiliser compositions, growth mediums and methods for enhancing plant growth. In one aspect, the invention relates to a method of increasing plant growth, plant productivity, seed germination or soil quality for a dicotyledonous plant or a monocotyledonous plant, the method comprising the step of: applying to the plant a treatment agent comprising at least one plant-beneficial Burkholderia-like species.