1036results about "Germinating apparatus" patented technology

Disclosed herein is a high growth, high density, closed environment growing system and methods thereof. A method of accelerating plant cell growth in a growing system may include adjusting the lighting in accordance with an identified plant growth stage.

An automated seed sampler includes a sampling station; a sampler for removing material from a seed in the sampling station; a seed conveyer for conveying the seed from the sampling station to a compartment in a seed tray; and a conveyor for conveying the material removed from the seed to a corresponding compartment in a sample tray. The method of the present invention comprises feeding seeds individually to a sampling station, removing a sample from the seed in the sampling station; conveying the sample to a compartment in a sample tray, and conveying the seed to a corresponding compartment in a seed tray. The samples can be tested, and the seeds can be sorted according to the results of the testing of their corresponding samples.

An apparatus for the automated testing of seeds includes a testing device having a testing stage, for analyzing a seed delivered to the testing stage; and a conveyor for automatically individually conveying each of a plurality of seeds in a tray between individual compartments in the tray and the testing stage of the testing device.

A capacitive touchpad comprises a membrane and a printed circuit board combined together. The membrane comprises an X trace and a Y trace with an insulator layer inserted therebetween, and the printed circuit board has connection pads on a top side of a substrate that are electrically connected to the X and Y traces. The printed circuit board further comprises vias connected between the connection pads and a conductor layer on the bottom side of the substrate. To form the capacitive touchpad, the membrane and printed circuit board are individually produced in advance, and then combined together. Alternatively, the membrane is printed on the printed circuit board.

An automated seed sampler includes a sampling station; a sampler for removing material from a seed in the sampling station; a seed conveyer for conveying the seed from the sampling station to a compartment in a seed tray; and a conveyor for conveying the material removed from the seed to a corresponding compartment in a sample tray. The method of the present invention comprises feeding seeds individually to a sampling station, removing a sample from the seed in the sampling station; conveying the sample to a compartment in a sample tray, and conveying the seed to a corresponding compartment in a seed tray. The samples can be tested, and the seeds can be sorted according to the results of the testing of their corresponding samples.

This invention provides method and devices for receiving and/or delivering liquid to an object, devices for delivering liquid to a plant/seed/growing medium comprising: a conduit comprising: at least two about parallel plates one or more walls substantially sealing the plates and forming a substantially enclosed space, such that the devices are useful in hydroponic gardens. This invention also provides hydroponic gardens with such devices. The parallel plates and the walls can be rigid and hydrophobic.

The invention relates to a method for treating plant seeds by plasmas and a device for realizing the method. The plasmas of the invention are cold plasmas generated by dielectric barrier discharge under the atmospheric pressure, wherein the cold plasmas are generated in the air; the working air pressure is the atmospheric pressure; an electric source for the dielectric barrier discharge is a high-frequency and high-voltage electric source with the frequency range from 50 Hz to 20 kHz and the voltage range from 1 kV to 10 kV; and the plant seeds are treated by the plasmas for 5 to 129 sec. Thedevice for realizing the seed treating method of the invention comprises a seed treating cavity, a plasma generator for generating the plasmas in the seed treating cavity and a transmitting device capable of controlling the retention time of the seeds in the seed treating cavity. The treating operation on the plant seeds by using the atmospheric-pressure plasmas does not refer to DNA recombination, does not relate to structural genovariation of the plant seeds, and cannot cause hazards. The method only denatures the plant seeds to make the advantages become more prominent.

The invention relates to a technique of ginseng planting, in particular to a method for planting ginseng on a farmland, which includes: land selection, soil improvement, bed making, seed sprouting, seeding, transplanting, shed erection, field management, overwintering cold protection, and ginseng root harvesting. By improving and regulating relevant technical steps and parameters in ginseng planting, the method is more reasonable and highly operable, regulated planting is achieved, farmland soil quality is improved, the requirements of ginseng cultivation are met, ginseng quality is guaranteed, and popularization of ginseng planting on farmlands is benefited. The sprouting is achieved by the sand and water process, seed opening rate reaches more than 90%, and germination rate is increased. Annual ginseng seedlings are used for transplanting, the transplanted seedlings continue growing for 4-5 years on the same farmland, and accordingly land resources are saved, ginseng growth and double-tuber ginseng formation are benefited, photosynthetic area is enlarged, and ginseng quality and yield are increased.

This invention provides methods, devices, and kits for growing a plant or germinating a seed into a plant; methods and devices for delivering oxygen to a plant or a seed which will germinate into a plant; methods and devices for delivering liquid to a plant; methods and devices for increasing the dissolved oxygen concentration in a liquid to be delivered to a plant; methods and devices for increasing the dissolved oxygen concentration in a liquid within a hydroponics device; terraced oxygenators; aspirators, downdraft venturis, net baskets; germination caps, sets of germination caps; methods for increasing the likelihood of germination of a seed; seed-bearing support media; methods for germinating a seed; and smart garden devices for hydroponics growing systems.

The invention provides a paddy seedling culture method. The steps of laying plastic film 1 by a seedbed, laying and cultivating seedling substance 2, spraying liquid fertilizer 3, processing 4 before sowing paddy, sowing 5, covering film 6, managing seedbed 7 and preventing and treating diseases 8 in seedling stages are adopted for paddy seedling culture. When used for paddy seedling culture, the paddy seedling culture method of the invention can realize quick seedling emergence, strong seedling, plant disease and insect pest prevention and well-developed root system, is easy to form continuous seeding pieces, is favourable for mechanized transplantation and can quickly survive seedlings after transplantation. The invention is suitable for paddy seedling culture.

The invention discloses a method for directly seeding rice, which comprises the following steps of: preparing soil; preparing a slag fertilizer; soaking seeds and accelerating germination; digging holes and seeding in a dry field; weeding; fertilizing in a land for growing field crops; thinning; and preventing and controlling plant diseases and insect pests. Since the method for directly seeding the rice directly digs holes and seeds in the field, the method can ensure that rice in a dry area grows normally by using a little amount of water before the head sprouting process of the rice, achieves good drought-resisting and water-saving effects, eliminates the transplanting step, avoids damaging root systems of the rice, strengthens the tillering capacity of the rice, achieves high yield, simplifies the working procedure, saves labor force, has low production cost, high efficiency and convenient operation, and can be widely used for planting rice in mountain areas, hilly areas, easily droughty areas and water-lacking dead angles of pieces of paddy fields.

The invention belongs to the biotechnology field and relates to a hormone-free cultivation and rapid propagation method of dendrobium candidum axenic seedlings. The hormone-free cultivation and rapid propagation method comprises the steps: germinating dendrobium candidum seeds in an axenic mode; forming and preserving protocorms and seedlings; rooting and proliferating unrooted seedlings, cultivating sound seedlings; and toughening and transplanting the axenic seedlings. The technology has convenient operation, small occupied space and low production cost, is convenient to industrially produce and apply on a large scale and is beneficial to retaining the excellent property of the seedlings and increase the use safety of the seedlings when being used for propagating the dendrobium candidum.

The invention discloses a hydro-fluctuation belt wetland vegetation restoration proper species screening method. The method includes: investigating region vegetation, and preliminarily selecting species suitable for region vegetation restoration from the aspects of life form and growth form of species; adopting a soil seed bank germination experiment to screen to obtain omissive proper plants; inferring proper plants for vegetation restoration of a hydro-fluctuation belt according to vegetation investigation on the hydro-fluctuation belt and the soil seed bank germination experiment of the same; performing a waterlogging tolerance experiment on the proper plants, and screening proper species for region vegetation restoration; according to waterlogging tolerance and region hydrologic changing characteristics, arranging the proper species obtained by screening, and conducting practice demonstration of vegetation restoration. The method is conducive to preventing genetic drift caused by gene flow and maintaining a gene bank of local species stable, less prone to causing intrusion of foreign species and provides technical support and scientific guidance for large-area demonstration and popularization of vegetation restoration in regions like reservoir hydro-fluctuation belts, riparian zones and tidal flat wetland.

The invention discloses an organic pepper substrate cultivation method and belongs to the field of vegetable cultivation. The method includes the following steps of cultivation substrate preparation, variety selection, seedling sowing, cultivation management, disease, pest and weed control and harvesting. According to the organic pepper substrate cultivation method, substrates are easy to prepare, the sources of raw materials are wide, the effect of fertilizers is good, the method is suitable for large-scale production of organic peppers, the cultivation modes of greenhouse cultivation and field cultivation can be chosen according to the actual situation, the production process is in full compliance with national organic product certification standards, products can be sold as organic vegetables in the market after a 3-year transition period, the occurrence of diseases and pests is low in the production process, the products are high in yield and good in quality, the food safety is guaranteed, and the economic input-output ratio is high.

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for non-destructive testing of a seed. In various embodiments, the method may comprise vibrating the seed to orient the seed on an axis, identifying a location of a known feature of the seed, determining a sample location on the seed based on the location of the known feature, and performing a non-destructive testing procedure on the seed proximate the sample location. In one embodiment, the method may comprise removing a sample portion of the seed from the sample location without damaging the embryo of the seed. Accordingly, the viability of the seed may be maintained while allowing for subsequent testing on the sample portion of the seed.

The invention discloses a hyperspectrum-based seed germination rate online-detection method. The method comprises the following steps: 1, carrying out hyperspectral image acquisition of seed training samples, and extracting the characteristic parameters of the hyperspectral images of the seed training samples under a characteristic wave band; 2, testing the seed training samples by utilizing a traditional process to obtain a germination result of the seed training samples; 3, establishing a hyperspectrum-based seed germination rate predication model with the characteristic parameters and spectral reflection values of the hyperspectral images of the seed training samples under the characteristic wave band as input and the seed germination result as output; and 4, carrying out hyperspectral image acquisition of seeds for detection, and utilizing the seed germination rate predication model to detect in order to obtain the germination rate of the seeds for detection. The invention also discloses a hyperspectrum-based seed germination rate online-detection apparatus. The simple, rapid, lossless and real time detection of the germination rate of seeds is realized in the invention.

The invention discloses a paddy rice planting method comprising the steps of: 1, land preparation; 2, seed soaking and germination accelerating; 3, seedling raising; 4, transplanting; 5, irrigating; 6, fertilizer top dressing; 7, pest and disease controlling; and 8, harvesting. According to the paddy rice planting method, a standardized cultivation manner is adopted. The land is prepared, and fertilizer top dressing is carried out. Certain fertilizer ratios are strictly adopted. Therefore, problems of low survival rate, low yield, and high pest and disease rate of prior arts are overcome. Fertilizing is reasonable, such that the method is environment-friendly. The method is simple to operate, and assists in improving germination rate of paddy rice seeds and promoting healthy growth of paddy rice during the seedling period. The method is highly practical.

The invention provides a delinted cottonseed vigor rapid and non-destructive detection information processing method and device. The method includes the steps: acquiring image information of delintedcottonseeds to be detected by an image acquirer; pretreating the image information according to preset rules to obtain image information to be detected; acquiring main component information, main component purity degree, chemical activity information, chemical activity strength, physical activity information and physical activity strength of the delinted cottonseeds to be detected according to theimage information to be detected; determining vigor information of the delinted cottonseeds based on the main component purity degree, chemical activity strength and physical activity strength. The method solves the technical problems of inaccurate detection results caused by influence of environments, seed size non-uniformity and the like and damage of hyperspectral irradiation to the seeds. Themethod has the advantages that images are acquired by the high-accuracy image acquirer, the image information is extracted, accuracy of the detection results is ensured by the aid of intelligent operation, errors are reduced, and rapid and non-destructive detection is achieved.

The invention discloses a buckwheat sprout seedling dish and a preparation method thereof, belonging to the field of foods. The preparation method of the buckwheat sprout seedling dish comprises the steps of seed selection, sterilization, seed soaking, sowing, sprouting, harvesting and the like, and the water content of the obtained buckwheat sprout seedling dish is 80% to 90%. In the invention, the buckwheat sprout seedling dish made by buckwheat after sprouting has the savory taste of buckwheat sprouts and is rich in flavonoid compounds, such as rutin and the like, and 18 kinds of amino acids necessary to a human body simultaneously, the mineral content of the buckwheat sprout seedling dish is higher than that of common buckwheat kernels, the activity of nutritional ingredients is reinforced, and the nutritional ingredients are easy for the human body to absorb; by eating the buckwheat sprout seedling dish frequently, the immunity of the human body can be enhanced, and the health of the human body is strengthened.

The invention provides an industrialized large-scale rice seedling raising system. The rice seedling raising system is composed of a seed sowing chamber, a seed germination accelerating chamber, a rice seedling raising chamber, a seedling collecting chamber, and seedling raising tray conveying rails arranged among the seed sowing chamber, the seed germination accelerating chamber, the rice seedling raising chamber and the seedling collecting chamber. The rice seedling raising system is characterized by being provided with a seed cleaning selection tank, a rice seedling raising tray paving/collecting apparatus, a PLC (Programmable Logic Control) automatic controller and the like. The industrialized large-scale rice seedling raising system has the advantage that the seed germination accelerating chamber and the rice seedling raising chamber are high in daylighting and water drainage properties so that the emergence rate of rice seedling raising and the survival rate of rice seedlings can be improved. A movable irrigating device and a sprinkling irrigation system are arranged to effectively utilize water resource and avoid waste of the water resource. The automatic rice seedling raising tray paving/collecting apparatus and the seedling raising tray conveying rails are arranged in the rice seedling raising chamber so that waste of human resource is greatly reduced and the production efficiency is improved.

The invention provides a seed germination acceleration seedling culturing method for polygonatum cyrtonema. The seed germination acceleration seedling culturing method comprises the steps of conducting fermentation treatment on fruits through valve bags, conducting low-temperature lamination treatment, conducting hormone treatment, breaking seed dormancy, inducing dormant seeds to germinate and grow to seedlings and the like. According to the seed germination acceleration seedling culturing method, by breaking seed dormancy and bud dormancy of polygonatum cyrtonema, the seedling culturing period of polygonatum cyrtonema can be greatly shortened, the production cost is reduced, the propagation coefficient of polygonatum cyrtonema is improved, and the problem that high-quality polygonatum cyrtonema seedlings are in short supply is solved.

A method for inducing the drought resistance of cucumbers by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi comprises the following steps: carrying out individual inoculation and propagation expanding initial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inoculants; cultivating cucumber seedlings through mycorrhization of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inoculants, wherein inoculation media adopts a mixture of a Hoagland nutrient solution and perlite; inducing drought resistance: after the seedlings are grown for 3 months, transferring the seedlings in black seedling raising bags with the specification of 25 cm*25 cm, filling 3.0 kg of sterilization soil in each black seedling raising bag, applying 80 mg/kg of total phosphorus and 100 mg/kg of total nitrogen in each basin, and keeping the relative water content of the soil to be about 40% of the field capacity under moderate drought; sufficiently watering before processing to enable the seedlings to be in the natural drought, carrying out the water control processing when the natural drought reaches the preset relative water content in processing, using a weighing water supplementing method to keep the all repeated soil water content in each-time processing to be within the test required range during the water control period, setting the regulating time of the water content to be 8: 00 Am each day, and supplementing water lost on a previous day.

The present invention provides a wheatear germination degree detection method, which comprises: S1, acquiring an image of wheat germination kernal; S2, according to the image, determining whether the wheat germination kernel turns into white, and acquiring a plumule image of the wheat germination kernel; and S3, according to the plumule image of the wheat germination kernel, calculating a plumule length, and determining a level of the wheatear germination degree according to whether the wheat germination kernel turns into white and the plumule length of the wheat germination kernel. According to the present invention, the wheatear germination degree is detected, such that rapid and non-destructive measurement can be achieved; various stage fine division is performed on the whole germination process, such that the turning-into-white state at the early germination stage can be determined, and the specific length of the wheat plumule at the germination middle-later stage can be obtained so as to grade the wheatear germination degree, and establish a method basis for rapid and automated quantitative detection of the wheatear germination degree.

The invention relates to a method of culturing of seedling and standardized planting protection of seeds of shinyleaf yellowhorn, which is characterized by comprising the following steps of: (1) collecting seeds: collecting seeds which are fully mature and has full kernels; (2) seed treatment: soaking the seeds with clean water, carrying out sand burial and lamination and adopting a fast germinating method for seeds without being treated by sand burial; (3) soil preparation of nursery lands: turning over the soil while pressing with a harrow, leveling the nursery lands and applying the farmyard manure; (4) sowing: adopting sowing in strip in spring, or spot sowing; taking out the seeds for sowing after the fruit is mature in autumn; (5) building a tunnel, furrowing small grooves at the two sides of beds, inserting bamboo bows, coating films, tucking the edges at the periphery of the film and covering the film with soil and pressing the film; (6) management of seedling stage: watering in proper time and proper quantity, weeding, binding the supports of nursery plants and carrying out artificial capping in August; (7) digging pits for planting when planting in spring of next year, cultivating, weeding, cutting tiller at any time, applying fertilizers before flowering, in the stage of enlarging the fruit, after colleting seeds and in the stage of enlarging the fruit; and (8) controlling damage by disease and insect and preventing yellows, sooty mould and smaller velvety chafer.

The invention discloses an agricultural planting technique of high and new technology, and in particular relates to a method for cultivating potatoes with straws in winter and spring. The method has the following main technical characteristics: using a large area of rice fields which are barren in winter and spring in south China, using the growth characteristics of the potatoes, and using a method for cultivating the potatoes by covering with thick straws so as to achieve the high quality, high yield and bumper harvest of the potato production. The method achieves the bumper harvest of the potatoes in winter and spring through the main techniques of the use of the growth characteristics of the potatoes, seed selection of the potatoes, breeding, land preparation, planting, reasonable thick planting, the use of the method for cultivating the potatoes by covering with thick straws, rich water field management, insect pests control, harvesting and the like.

A low stress conductive film or paste adhesive that comprises a) one or more functional acrylic copolymers or terpolymers; b) epoxy; and c) conductive filler. Additional ingredients, such as adhesion promoters and conductivity enhancers may also be utilized. The conductive film or paste adhesive provides higher adhesion strength than traditional flexible conductive film adhesives and a lower stress between the bonded components than existing high adhesion strength conductive films.

The invention discloses a method for shortening the juvenescent phase of fruit trees, which comprises accelerating germination, seeding, port transferring, seedling adaptation, field planting and training and pruning. Adopting the technology in the project, the peach seedling tree can pass the juvenescent phase in the very year of seeding and enter the adult vegetative phase, while the seedling trees of apple and chestnut, etc., can pass the juvenescent phase in the second year after the seedling tree seeding and enter the adult vegetative phase. Shortening the juvenescent phase of seedling trees of fruit crops has an important significance for shortening the breeding cycle of fruit trees and promoting the career development of fruit trees.

The present invention relates to a seedling cultivating method for raising rate of emergence of paris polyphylla smith var, yunnanensis seeds. Said method is short in time of emergence, high in rate of emergence and low in cost for cultivating seedlings. Said method includes the following steps: selecting ripe seed, removing outer seed peel, placing the seed and soil in a seedling cultivating frame interior by layers according to the volume ratio of 1:3-5, under the condition of that the relative humidity of soil in the seedling cultivating frame is 50-80% and its temperature is 18-20deg.C placing for 90-130 days, then sowing in greenhouse seedling bed, the thickness of greenhouse seedling bed soil layer is 5-10cm and the thickness of covering soil after sowing is 1-3cm. As compared with other method for cultivating seedlings the time for cultivating seedlings can be shortened to 5-6 months, and the rate of emergence can be reached to above 60%.

The invention discloses an automatic seed soaking pregermination device which comprises a seed soaking pregermination tank (1) and a control device (2); wherein, the bottom of the seed soaking pregermination tank (1) is provided with a water drain valve, and the seed soaking pregermination tank (1) respectively controls an oxygenation device, a heating device and a cooling device by the control device (2); the oxygenation device is communicated with an oxygenation pipeline arranged at the bottom of the seed soaking pregermination tank (1) through a gas pipeline (9); the heating device includes a sterilizing heating device and a heat insulating heating device, and the sterilizing heating device is communicated with the heat insulating heating device through a steam conduit and then communicated with the seed soaking pregermination tank (1); the cooling device is communicated with the upper part and the lower part of the seed soaking pregermination tank (1) through a low temperature water pipeline (4), so as to form a low temperature water circulation system together with the interior of the seed soaking pregermination tank (1). The invention has the advantages of controllable moisture, temperature, oxygen and illumination, high automation control degree, stable quality of presprouting of seeds and the like, and is especially suitable for the batch production of seed soaking pregermination of small size seeds having small volume and light weight of tobacco, grazing, ornamental grasses, milk vetch, etc.

The invention discloses a vegetable factorization seedling culturing method and a device of the vegetable factorization seedling culturing method. The vegetable factorization seedling culturing method and the device of the vegetable factorization seedling culturing method are characterized in that a plurality of seedling culturing beds for vegetables are arranged in a greenhouse, a plurality of seedling culturing pots are arranged on each seedling culturing bed, a plurality of seedling culturing holes are arranged in each seedling culturing pot, seedling culturing of the vegetables is carried out through the seedling culturing holes. The vegetable factorization seedling culturing method has the advantages of being free from climate changing, suitable for growing of vegetable seedling, and capable of guaranteeing culturing vegetable strong seedling, laying a foundation for production increasing of vegetable growth, shortening seedling culturing cycle, and improving efficiency and reducing seedling culturing labor intensity.