40results about "Horticulture grafting" patented technology

A fruit tree bonsai planting method includes primarily grafting a scion with a stock by an inarching method, with an inarched location being fastened tightly by a tape. A lower part of the scion is cut off when the inarched location is healed and then the stock is transplanted to a pot with fertile soil for fixing, thereby forming a fruit tree bonsai having an indoor decorative condition and edible fruits.

The invention generally refers t.o a cutting machine to cut stem segments with desired characteristics. The invention is particularly useful to cut stem segments of graminaceous plants (from the 'Gramineae / Poaceae' family) such as plants of the Saccharum spp, including sugar cane. According to an embodiment of the invention, the cutting machine comprises a sensor (24) to identify at least one characteristic of the stem (40), means (60, 61) to place the stem in a determined position for cutting, depending on the response of said sensor, and means to cut the stem; wherein said sensor to identify at least one characteristic of the stem, said means to cut the stem are interconnected to each other and controlling means (30) in order to cut the stem at a particular position depending on the presence of said identified characteristic; characterized in that the sensor is selected from the group consisting of a pressure transducer sensor, a capactive sensor, an ultrasound sensor, an x-ray sensor, a magnetic sensor, and a microwave sensor.

Provided herein is a method of cultivating a grafted cactus (Gymnocalycium mihanovichii) cultivar “Yellow Top” including the steps of: a) selecting a cross combination between “GG02451” and “GG205736”; b) crossing the combination, harvesting cactus fruits after a mature stage has been passed, disinfecting the cactus fruits, selecting and sterilizing seeds contained in the cactus fruits, and sowing the seeds; c) obtaining germinated seedlings; d) selecting only colored seedlings from the germinated seedlings; e) first-grafting the selected colored seedlings onto small virus-free Hylocereus trigonus in test tubes; and f) covering light-shielding film on the cultured seedlings to harden the seedlings and secondarily grafting only the seedlings onto Hylocereus trigonus.

A grafted seedling producing apparatus 1 includes a seeding apparatus 2, a seedling raising apparatus 3 having a carriage 6 and a chamber 7, a grafting apparatus 4, and a plurality of nursery apparatuses 5. The seeding apparatus 2 creates seed-containing cultivation mediums each made up of a cultivated plant seed and a soil contained in a pot, arranges the mediums on a tray, and loads the tray into the carriage 6. The carriage 6 is housed in the chamber 7. The seedling raising apparatus 3 germinates the seeds and grows seedlings generated by the germination while applying light from LEDs. Since a worker does not have to enter the chamber 7, the seedling raising apparatus 3 becomes compact. The grafting apparatus 4 grafts a stock and a scion created by the seedling raising apparatus 3 to form a grafted seedling. The nursery apparatus 5 nurses the grafted seedling.

The invention provides methods of inhibiting the growth of a shoot apical meristem of a cucurbit rootstock plant, comprising contacting a shoot apical meristem of the cucurbit rootstock plant with an effective amount of a composition comprising one or more fatty alcohols, thereby inhibiting the growth of the shoot apical meristem of the cucurbit rootstock plant. The present invention further provides methods for preparing and producing cucurbit rootstock plants for grafting and methods for grafting. Additionally provided are cucurbit rootstock plants and plant parts and grafted cucurbit plants produced by the methods of the invention.

A method of cutting a stem to be whip grafted, comprising: securing the stem in a bore of a hand-held grafting tool that includes an angled end, with a portion of the stem extending out from the angled end; drawing a knife across a face of the angled end to thereby cut the stem; and removing the cut stem from the grafting tool. In one respect the hand-held grafting tool comprises a housing having a bore and at least one angled end, a holding member, and moveable connectors attached to the holding member, wherein the moveable connectors protrude through and bisect the housing.

A method for separating a lump piece of rosette plants. The method includes the steps of gripping a rosette plant and positioning it parallel to a longitudinal axis of an elongated holder which has a longitudinal opening at least along the longitudinal axis; introducing a part of the lump piece of the rosette plant into the holder via the mentioned longitudinal opening; cutting off the lump piece along a cutting plane parallel to the longitudinal axis, while closing the longitudinal opening, such that the introduced part of the lump piece is enclosed in the holder; and removing the enclosed cut-off part of the lump piece from the holder. The method includes the further step of cutting off a part of the rosette plant enclosed in the holder along a second cutting plane.

A grafting method comprises the steps of, first preparing a stool by right transverse cuts through a limb or trunk, meaning that the limb or trunk of a tree or shrub is cut at essentially right angles. Root and scion stocks are grafted to the stool using the well known bark grafting technique. The stool is then placed into a rooting medium with the grafted root stock immersed in the medium. Appropriate heat and water is made available to ensure that the root stock is established and that sufficient nutrients and moisture is conducted to the scion stock through the stool.

Methods of expressing a molecule of interest in a plant are disclosed. One method comprises contacting roots of the plant in a solution comprising at least one Geminivirus based expression construct so as to allow the at least one Geminivirus based expression construct to be absorbed by the roots, the expression construct comprising a polynucleotide encoding the molecule of interest, and further the expression construct being capable of systemic symptomless spread in a plant host, thereby expressing a molecule of interest in a plant. Expression constructs capable of systemic symptomless spread in a host plant are also disclosed.

Commercially available rose saplings have been conventionally grafted a rose scion on a wild rose stock, however shoots grown from a single wild rose rootstock are effectively used to graft many kinds of roses so as to bloom various flowers. The invention provides a method of grafting many kinds of roses on a single wild rose stock to bloom various flowers by paying attention to lateral buds formed on one or several shoots grown from a wild rose rootstock and grafting many kinds of perpetual rose scions on each notched opening with a lateral bud, which makes it possible to enjoy roses planted in a pot even in a small space, and rose saplings thus produced.

The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to pathogen resistant citrus compositions, organisms, systems, and methods. For example, a composition may comprise a peptide (e.g., a defensin peptide) and / or a nucleic acid (e.g., a defensin nucleic acid). A pathogen resistant citrus plant may comprise, in some embodiments, a defensin peptide and / or an expressable nucleic acid encoding a defensin peptide.

A grafted seedling producing device including a stock seedling holding unit that holds and conveys a stock seedling, a stock cutting unit that cuts the stock seedling held by the stock seedling holding unit, and a joining unit that joins the stock seedling conveyed by the stock seedling holding unit and a scion seedling, the stock cutting unit including a stock cutter unit that includes a stock blade for cutting the stock seedling by a predetermined stock cutter trajectory, the stock seedling holding unit holding an embryonic stem of a seedling for grafting at a predetermined position on the stock cutter trajectory in a vertical posture, the grafted seedling producing device includes: a supporting unit configured to retract the stock cutter unit from an advance position for cutting in proximity to the stock seedling holding unit; and a stock pressing member that presses and fixes a portion ahead of a cutting position of the embryonic stem from a seedling holding position against the stock seedling holding unit side at the advance position.

A seedling-cutting apparatus includes a pair of arms that is to nip a portion of a stem of a seedling for grafting and that can be opened and closed and a blade that is provided so as to be capable of reciprocating relative to the portion of the stem. At least one of the pair of arms includes a through hole or a cutout that penetrates a portion of the arms along a direction in which the blade reciprocates. At least a portion of the through hole or the cutout faces the portion of the stem and at least a portion of the blade moves through the through hole or the cutout.

The invention provides methods for producing seeds in watermelon. In one embodiment methods are provided comprising grafting of a seed parent onto a stress tolerant rootstock, pollinating the seed parent with pollen from a pollen donor, and cultivating the seed parent until seed is formed. In specific embodiments, triploid seeds produced by a method of the invention are rendered conspicuously distinguishable from tetraploid seeds, and thus readily selected manually or by an automated machine. Methods for increasing seed yield and / or quality are also provided.

Material is mechanically removed from the cut-out extremities of the graft holder (1) and graft (13) by a tool fitted with two parallel milling cutters (3, 4) of different thickness, in which the inner face of the milling cutter of smaller thickness (3) lies in the plane passed by the longitudinal central axis (X-X) of the graft holder and of the graft, so as to create two matching longitudinal hollow seats (5, 6) and longitudinal extensions (14, 15), where the extensions of one portion end up being exactly capable of interpenetrating the hollow seats of the other portion, and the longitudinal central axes (X-X) of the graft holder and of the graft turn out to be coincident.

Provided is a novel plant body comprising a plant tissue of a plant belonging to the family Solanaceae, Brassicaceae, Lamiaceae, or Orobanchaceae, wherein graft incompatibility is avoided or suppressed by using a graft medium between different-family plants.

The present subject matter relates to a method for cultivating a new grafted cactus (Gymnocalycium mihanovichii) cultivar “Red Top” including the steps of: a) selecting a cross combination between “GG02481” and “GG027977”; b) crossing the combination, harvesting cactus fruits after a mature stage has been passed, disinfecting the cactus fruits, selecting and sterilizing seeds contained in the cactus fruits, and sowing the seeds; c) obtaining germinated seedlings; d) selecting only colored seedlings from the germinated seedlings; e) first-grafting the selected colored seedlings onto small virus-free Hylocereus trigonus in test tubes; and f) covering light-shielding film on the cultured seedlings to harden the seedlings and secondarily grafting only the seedlings onto Hylocereus trigonus.

The present invention provides a method for producing a rooted cutting which can be applied to Pinaceae trees. Specifically, the present invention provides a method for producing a rooted cutting of a Pinaceae tree, comprising the following steps A and B.A: adding a cytokinin to the outside of a shoot apex of a short shoot of a Pinaceae tree to thereby induce a new scaly leaf and / or primary leaf;B: cutting out the short shoot where new scaly leaf and / or primary leaf is induced in the step A, inserting the short shoot as a cutting in a rooting bed wetted with a carbon source-free liquid medium comprising nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium as essential elements, and culturing the short shoot in a culturing vessel while regulating the concentration of CO2 gas in the culturing vessel at a humidity of 80% or more to thereby root the cutting.

The present invention provides a plant grafting method using a plurality of rootstocks grafted together to one scion. A collar is positioned around at least one rootstock to limit a period of its contribution for growth and development of said plant. The grafting method benefits from simultaneous utilization of plurality of rootstocks with versatile growth control.

A method of producing hybrid seeds for annual cotton by cultivating perennially, including the steps of: 1) planting annual cotton parent strains for hybridization and identifying the natural wintering capability thereof; 2) for annual cotton parent strains incapable of wintering naturally, taking a perennial cotton capable of wintering naturally as a rootstock and the annual cotton incapable of wintering naturally as a scionwood for grafting, and carrying out the perennial root culture of the obtained grafted plant; for annual cotton parent strains capable of wintering naturally, directly planting the strains and carrying out the perennial root culture of seedling plants thereof, or carrying out the perennial root culture of grafted plants thereof obtained according to the above grafting method; and (3) hybridizing the seedling plants and / or the grafted plants to produce seeds in the year of planting and / or grafting and period of perennial cultivation.

An object of the present invention is to provide a method for transforming a plant by grafting of a rootstock and a scion, and using siRNA for initiating transcriptional gene silencing. The method for transforming a plant by grafting of a rootstock and a scion of the present invention as a means for resolution is characterized in that siRNA for initiating transcriptional gene silencing is produced in a scion, the siRNA produced in the scion is transported to a rootstock by grafting, and the rootstock is transformed by initiating transcriptional gene silencing therein.

The present invention relates to a graft element for joining together plant stem sections. The graft element is made of a resilient material and takes the form of a tubular structure having a hollow center that extends in a longitudinal direction so as to form a cylinder. The graft element further comprises a side opening along its length and two elongated members. The side opening is connected to the hollow center over the entire length of the graft element. The two elongated members are located at opposite sides of the side opening and oriented substantially parallel thereto. The elongated members are provided with cutouts for receiving a gripping unit. The invention further relates to systems and methods for joining plant stem sections using the graft element. Finally, the invention relates to a system and a method for preparing the graft element.

A plant graft production line for automatically grafting a rootstock and a scion si disclosed. The aforesaid plant graft production line comprises (a) a closed-loop conveyor; (b) at least one grafting assembly arranged for transporting along said conveyor; the assembly further comprises a rootstock holder for holding the rootstock and a scion holder for holding the scion; the holders arranged for at least partially superimposing said rootstock and scion; (c) stationary cutting mechanism for cutting exposed rootstock surface; (d) a stationary cutting mechanism for cutting a exposed scion surface to be; (e) stationary clipping mechanism for clipping the superimposed rootstock and scion together. It is a core feature of the invention to provide the rootstock holder arranged so as to provide a curvilinear plane along which said rootstock is conformed thereby presenting a curved cutting target for the cutting mechanism.

The invention provides methods for producing seeds in watermelon. In one embodiment methods are provided comprising grafting of a seed parent onto a stress tolerant rootstock, pollinating the seed parent with pollen from a pollen donor, and cultivating the seed parent until seed is formed. In specific embodiments, triploid seeds produced by a method of the invention are rendered conspicuously distinguishable from tetraploid seeds, and thus readily selected manually or by an automated machine. Methods for increasing seed yield and / or quality are also provided.