41results about "Testing plants/trees" patented technology

Systems and methods for determining a concentration of a substance in a sample. In one embodiment, the system uses a device that cooperates with a container containing a sample mixed with a solution. The mixture comes into contact with a sensor that has been activated by the device, thereby allowing data signals to be received by the device through electrodes that are coupled to the sensor. The data signals are then analyzed and, based on the characteristics of the signal, a concentration of the substance can be estimated. After a single use, the container is sealed and can be disposed of properly to avoid further contact with the solution or the sample. In some embodiments, a solid sample is first processed in a second container before being mixed with the solution.

The present invention discloses a CEEMDAN-based method for screening and monitoring soil moisture stress in farmland, characterised by the steps: preprocessing of remote sensing images, construction of NDVI long time series, CEEMDAN decomposition, calculation of statistical descriptors, screening of soil moisture stress sequences, ground data measurement, construction of soil moisture stress characteristic curves, fitting of soil moisture stress response characteristic curves and predicting the content of soil moisture stress. The invention adopts CEEMDAN decomposition, which solves the problems of noise residue and low reconstruction accuracy in the previous methods, and the high reconstruction accuracy of decomposed component data is more conducive to capturing the transient effects of soil moisture stress, and realizes the screening and extraction of soil moisture stress by combining with the ground measured data. The inverse model of soil moisture content is fitted by combining the effects of multiple indicators, and the CEEMDAN algorithm with remote sensing technology tools to achieve accurate monitoring of soil moisture in a large area of farmland.

For analysis of the state of a plant (2) or of another eukaryote, an evaluation device or an evaluation system (30) has an evaluation circuit (34) which is designed to carry out an evaluation (36) of spectral data. The spectral data or data generated on the basis thereof by preprocessing are divided into multiple parts and analyzed using an analysis logic. The analysis logic comprises at least one attention mechanism.

A mechanism for monitoring cannabis and predicting or determining a harvesting time. A sensing arrangement generates a temporal sequence of VOC values, each representing a measured amount of a first set of one or more volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the air surrounding some cannabis. This temporal sequence is then processed to determine a harvesting time, at which the cannabis is ready for harvesting (e.g., meets some predetermined criteria for achieving a harvesting goal).

A sensor system comprising: a below ground sensor device positioned within a tillage depth during tillage in soil of an agricultural field, the sensor device including RF circuitry to transmit RF signals to an above ground entity; and an anchoring device to anchor the sensor device below ground and to prevent the sensor device from being moved out of the soil. There is further provided a base station positioned on a ground surface of soil of an agricultural field, partially in the soil, or below ground surface of the soil, wherein the base station includes RF circuitry that is configured to transmit RF signals to the sensor device and to receive RF signals from the sensor device.

Provided is an information processing method, wherein an information processing device executes: acquiring measurement values of one or a plurality of factor items related to a biostimulant effect factor of a plant from the plant to which a material with a function of enhancing tolerance to abiotic stress has been applied; weighting each acquired measurement value of each factor item using each weight; and calculating an evaluation value of the material by inputting each measurement value weighted by each of the weights into a function related to evaluation of the material.

Below ground sensor systems including at least one sensor and optionally a base station for communicating sensed soil parameters in agricultural fields are described. In an aspect of the disclosure there is provided a sensor system comprising a base station positioned on a ground surface of soil of an agricultural field, partially in the soil, or below ground surface of the soil. The base station includes a first transceiver that is configured to transmit electromagnetic (EM) signals to an above ground entity and a second transceiver that is configured to transmit EM signals downwards through the soil and a below ground sensor device is positioned at a depth in the soil below a tillage depth. The sensor device is configured to generate an electromagnetic field through soil to transmit EM signals to the base station and to receive the EM signals from the base station for bi-directional communications between the sensor device and the base station.

This invention discloses a device and method for simulating the effects of salinity stress during freeze-thaw cycles on the rhizome germination of emergent plants, belonging to the field of emergent plant germination experiments in cold and arid regions. The device includes an outdoor main pool and a laboratory auxiliary pool, connected by a closed channel with double gates. The bottom of the main and auxiliary pools is equipped with sliding tracks and transfer channels. Within the transfer channels, a translation screw, in conjunction with an electromagnet, drives the base frame to move without breaking ice. The main pool is equipped with freeze-thaw, salinity, and nutrient regulation modules. The method uses an L18 (3²×6¹) orthogonal array to design experimental combinations of freeze-thaw patterns, salinity, and nutrients. The base frame is transferred to the auxiliary pool without breaking ice, and stratified morphological and physiological indicators are measured simultaneously. Data are harvested at the end of the experiment, and variance analysis is performed. This invention achieves undisturbed monitoring of the experimental environment, accurately recreates the complex stress environment, quantifies the effects of the three factors, provides a scientific basis for the ecological restoration of saline-alkali wetlands, and is convenient to operate and highly repeatable.

A method for generating a localized data map, the method including (a) traversing an area with a machine, the machine including at least one sensor, wherein the sensor is configured to receive data; (b) collecting data of the area utilizing the sensor; and (c) communicating the data to generate a localized data map. A system and method for generating a localized turf grass data map, the method including (a) traversing an area of turf grass with an outdoor power equipment machine, the outdoor power equipment machine including at least one sensor, wherein the sensor is configured to receive data; (b) collecting turf grass data utilizing the sensor; and (c) communicating the turf grass data to generate a localized turf grass data map.

An agricultural system with an agricultural harvester has a terahertz sensor. The terahertz sensor includes at least one a terahertz source disposed to direct electromagnetic radiation toward a harvest material of the agricultural harvester. A terahertz detector is disposed to detect the terahertz electromagnetic radiation after the terahertz electromagnetic radiation interacts with the harvest material. A controller is operably coupled to the terahertz detector and is configured to detect a harvest-related parameter based on a signal from the terahertz detector and to perform an action based on a detected parameter.

A soil or plant analysis apparatus to perform low and high frequency measurements is described herein. In one embodiment, the soil analysis apparatus comprises a first sub-system to perform low frequency soil measurements and a second sub-system to perform high frequency soil measurements. The high frequency measurements of the second sub-system are at least 1.25 times the low frequency measurements of the first sub-system.

Wacker oxidation can be used as a signal transduction mechanism for the selective and sensitive detection of ethylene in air via chemiresistive sensing. Using this system, the senescence of lisianthus flowers and carnations can be monitored.

The invention provides a method for estimating a vase-life of a cut plant product (1), wherein the cut plant product (1) is selected from the group comprising a cut flower and cut foliage, wherein the method comprises: (A) a cooling stage comprising subjecting the cut plant product (1) to a cooling temperature (TC) for a cooling duration (tC), wherein the cooling temperature (TC) is selected from the range of 0 – 10 ºC, and wherein the cooling duration (tC) is selected from the range of 0.5 – 4 weeks; (B) a detection stage comprising detecting acoustic emission radiation (2) from the cut plant product (1) and providing an emission-related signal (3); and (C) an analysis stage comprising determining a settling time (τS) based on the emission- related signal (3), and determining the vase-life based on the settling time (τS).

A method and respective system are described. The method provides classification of cannabis inflorescence, and comprising: grinding said cannabis inflorescence; and determining a spectrogram of ground cannabis inflorescence; and providing data indicative of said spectrogram to trained machine learning system, pretrained on classification of material composition of cannabis inflorescence, to thereby obtain output data indicative of at least one of composition of selected cannabinoids and terpenes in said cannabis inflorescence, and varieties of said cannabis inflorescence.

A system is disclosed for detecting a pest infestation and / or a disease on plants. The system comprises a plurality of spatially separated VOC sensors for detecting volatile organic compounds, VOCs, among a plurality of plants. The system also comprises a database system having stored thereon a plurality of indications of respective distress VOCs and / or response VOCs. Herein, each distress VOC is a VOC that is emitted by a pest infested and / or diseased plant and each response VOC is a VOC that is emitted by a plant in response to the plant detecting a distress VOC from a pest infested and / or diseased plant. The system also comprises a data processing system that is configured to-receive from the plurality of sensors one or more signals indicative of a detected VOC and indicative of at least one location where the detected VOC is detected, and to-based on the one or more signals from the plurality of VOC sensors, determine that the detected VOC corresponds to a distress VOC stored in the database system or determine that the detected VOC corresponds to a response VOC stored in the database system, and to-based on determining that a distress VOC or response VOC has been detected, and based on the at least one location as indicated in the one or more signals, determine a location of a pest infested and / or diseased plant.

A system comprising: a controller (104) configured to: receive bale-location-data (110) representative of the location of a plurality of bales (108) in a field (102); receive bale-property-data (116) representative of one or more physical properties of each of the plurality of bales (108); and determine bale-pick-up-data (112) based on the bale-location-data (110) and the bale-property-data (116), wherein the bale-pick-up-data (112) is associated with an operation to pick up the bales (108) from the field (102).

This invention discloses a method for analyzing the blend composition of a cigarette sample based on the thermal properties of tobacco leaves. The method includes (1) preparing a cigarette sample to be analyzed and a single-grade tobacco sample; (2) collecting thermal analysis spectra of the cigarette sample to be analyzed and the single-grade tobacco sample; and (3) studying the thermal analysis spectrum algorithm to obtain the composition and proportion of tobacco leaves in the cigarette sample to be analyzed. The method of this invention can complete the compositional analysis of an unknown cigarette within minutes and obtain a clear composition and proportion of components, and is objective, efficient, versatile, highly reproducible, and highly sensitive, offering unique advantages in cigarette analysis in the tobacco industry.

The present invention discloses a system and a method for detecting different developmental stages of fungi life cycle in postharvest crops. More particularly, the system comprises a measuring transducer, such as a CMOS photodetector and immobilized fungal nucleic acid strands. RNA from the tested postharvest produce sample is loaded onto the system of the present invention, and specific fungal mRNA transcripts anneal to the immobilized strands. A reporter strand conjugated to a signal-generating component further binds the mRNA transcripts, and when a detectable reaction is produced post binding, the transducer captures said reaction and converts it to measurable values, indicating the quantity, presence and the developmental stage of the fungus.

A method for quantifying a cellulosic component in a sample includes preparing a first suspension by mixing an amount of sample with first aqueous acid at a concentration of 40 wt-% or greater; incubating the first suspension in a first incubation stage at a first incubation temperature of less than 40° C.; adding water or aqueous sulfuric acid to the incubated first suspension to form a second suspension having a concentration 40 wt-% or less of sulfuric acid based on a total weight of the second suspension; incubating the second suspension in a second incubation stage at a second incubation temperature of 50° C. or greater for an incubation period, wherein the sample is not subjected to hydrolysis at temperatures above 98° C.; separating a supernatant from the incubated second suspension; analyzing the supernatant for total content of xylose, mannose, galactose, and arabinose; and calculating, based on the analysis, the amount of the hemicellulose.

Provided are a flexible molecularly imprinted sensor for in-situ and in-vivo detection of gamma-aminobutyric acid content in plants, and a preparation method and a detection method thereof. The flexible molecularly imprinted sensor includes: a flexible substrate and a graphene electrode unit, the graphene electrode unit being arranged on the flexible substrate, where the graphene electrode unit includes a conductive track, a working electrode, a counter electrode, and a reference electrode, where the counter electrode and the reference electrode are respectively located on two sides of the working electrode, and the working electrode is successively provided from inside to outside with a first modification layer, a second modification layer, and a third modification layer, the first modification layer including an AuNPs material, the second modification layer including an Fc-Ni3(HITP)2-ZnFe-LDH material, and the third modification layer including a molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) material.

This patent presents an integrated system for monitoring coastal ecosystems, focusing on mangroves and corals in Gulf region-specific environments. It utilizes a Multi-Faceted Neural Network (MFNN) to process diverse data sources, offering insights into mangrove health, carbon sequestration potential, coral health, disease spread prediction, and site selection for mangrove restoration. The system employs various training and optimization techniques to ensure precision and adaptability, including backpropagation, regularization, fine-tuning with regional datasets, and data augmentation. It introduces mathematical formulas for evaluating mangrove canopies and coral ecosystems, addressing disease prediction and optimal planting site selection for mangrove restoration. The system's interconnection with carbon storage research enhances its scientific foundation for assessing overall carbon storage in mangrove ecosystems. This system and its associated methods provide a powerful toolset for coastal ecosystem monitoring, preservation, and restoration, promoting sustainable management practices.

Below ground sensor systems including at least one sensor and optionally a base station for communicating sensed soil parameters in agricultural fields are described. In an aspect of the disclosure there is provided a sensor system comprising a base station positioned on a ground surface of soil of an agricultural field, partially in the soil, or below ground surface of the soil. The base station includes a first transceiver that is configured to transmit electromagnetic (EM) signals to an above ground entity and a second transceiver that is configured to transmit EM signals downwards through the soil and a below ground sensor device is positioned at a depth in the soil below a tillage depth. The sensor device is configured to generate an electromagnetic field through soil to transmit EM signals to the base station and to receive the EM signals from the base station for bi-directional communications between the sensor device and the base station.

Below ground sensor systems including at least one sensor and optionally a base station for communicating sensed soil parameters in agricultural fields are described. In an aspect of the disclosure there is provided a sensor system comprising a base station positioned on a ground surface of soil of an agricultural field, partially in the soil, or below ground surface of the soil. The base station includes a first transceiver that is configured to transmit electromagnetic (EM) signals to an above ground entity and a second transceiver that is configured to transmit EM signals downwards through the soil and a below ground sensor device is positioned at a depth in the soil below a tillage depth. The sensor device is configured to generate an electromagnetic field through soil to transmit EM signals to the base station and to receive the EM signals from the base station for bi-directional communications between the sensor device and the base station.

Methods and systems for rapid detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from plants, such as onions and other fruits and vegetables, are described. The systems include one or more colorimetric sensing elements and a cell-damaging component that can damage one or more cells in a plant sample to induce VOC release. In an exemplary system, a colorimetric dye array is combined with one or more needles on a single sensor body. Use of the system for classifying onion bulbs based on tearing intensity and / or pungency is described.

A biological sensor according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a first antenna conductor, a second antenna conductor, and a power detection unit. The second antenna conductor is a conductor different from the first antenna conductor, and is electrically coupled to an organism connected to an earth ground directly or by capacitive coupling. The power detection unit detects AC power to be generated between the first antenna conductor and the second antenna conductor in accordance with a resistance component of the organism relative to the earth ground.

This invention presents a comprehensive evaluation method and application for mitigating microplastic toxicity in maize seedlings. It utilizes the biological concepts of relative mitigation effect index and absolute mitigation intensity coefficient for individual traits in maize seedlings affected by polystyrene (PS) microplastics, derived from the application of different concentrations of nano-zinc oxide (ZnONPs) / monolayer graphene (GO) solutions. This method scientifically, objectively, accurately, and comprehensively evaluates the overall mitigation effect and intensity of different concentrations of ZnONPs / GO solutions on PS microplastic toxicity in maize seedlings after 7 or 21 days of growth. Through comprehensive comparison, a scientific and efficient application method for mitigating PS microplastic toxicity in maize seedlings using ZnONPs / GO solution treatment is proposed. This invention is simple to operate, requires small amounts of ZnONPs / GO, is economical and practical, does not pollute the environment, and has a good overall mitigation effect on microplastic toxicity in maize seedlings, showing great potential for application in green, efficient, and clean maize production.