195 results about "Diseases plants" patented technology

A portable fluorescence and transmittance imaging spectroscopy system for use in diagnosing plant health. The system has a primary LED light source array with spectral wavelengths in the 400-600 nm range, a focus cone that collects the LED light source output and focuses it, a controller that controls the primary LED array to turn it on and off, or certain of the spectral wavelengths on and off such that the primary LED array controllably emits light of a desired wavelength in the range, the light irradiating the plant through the focus cone, a digital imaging device that both spatially and temporally captures a fluorescence image comprising chlorophyll fluorescence emitted by the plant due to the emitted light from the LED array, a leaf holder located proximate to the output of the focus cone to maintain a consistent position and distance between the digital imaging device, the LED light source and the leaf and providing for fixed position and non-destructive leaf imaging and testing, a secondary light source for providing broad-band transmissive light through the leaf, a lens for focusing onto the imaging device the light emitted from the secondary light source, and one or more memory devices that store the fluorescence image and the transmitted light data received by the digital imaging device and store a library of plant fluorescence-intensity data indicative of both healthy plants and stressed or diseased plants, and plant light transmittance data indicative of certain plant conditions.

The invention provides a CNN and transfer learning-based disease intelligent identification method and system, which can reduce interference of a picture background, can achieve high recognition accuracy under the condition of a limited sample number, and supports higher training sample multi-classification operation efficiency. The disease image identification method comprises the following steps: image preprocessing: normalizing the size of the image, quickly positioning a disease region by using Fast-RCNN, and eliminating background interference; image feature extraction: using a triplet similarity measurement model to extract image features, and then using SIFT features as compensation features to perform weighted fusion; and disease classification and recognition: learning a first image feature of a normal plant image by adopting a deep convolutional neural network, then learning a second image feature of the disease plant image by using transfer learning, and finally performing classification and recognition by combining the first image feature and the second image feature.

The invention discloses a method for obtaining sogatella furcifera carrying SRBSDV (southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus) and an application sogatella furcifera. The method for obtaining the sogatella furcifera carrying the SRBSDV, comprises the following steps of: feeding the sogatella furcifera by utilizing rice infecting the SRBSDV or cryopreserved rice diseased plant so that the sogatella furcifera obtains the SRBSDV, transferring the infected sogatella furcifera to a healthy rice to be fed till passing through a circulation period of virus, and detecting the sogatella furcifera by utilizing an RT-PCR (reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction) technology and a serology method to obtain the sogatella furcifera carrying the SRBSDV, wherein the carrier rate of the sogatella furcifera can reach more than 50% through a manual feeding manner based on the experiment. Through utilizing the method for obtaining the sogatella furcifera carrying the SRBSDV, the obtained sogatella furcifera carrying the SRBSDV can be applied to screening of SRBSDV-resisting monoclonal antibody to carry out a rice inoculation experiment to identify the resistance of the rice, screen disease-resistant variety and provide a service of the breeding for disease resistance. The invention can be further applied to researching mutual relation between the SRBSDV and a vector insect sogatella furcifera and provides powerful theoretical evidence for prevention and treatment on the viruses.

The invention provides a prevention and control method of potato late blight, which is used for preventing and controlling potato late blight by comprehensive utilization of the traditional measures. The prevention and control method comprises the aspects of: potato seed treatment before sowing, management at seedling stage, cultivation measures, prediction and pre-warning, chemical control and the like. The prevention and control method is stable and permanent in prevention and control, reduces environmental pollution, is low in cost, and can predict and persistently control, thereby being amethod for realizing comprehensive prevention and control of potato late blight. From the growing conditions of the above-ground parts in field, the purpose of controlling the incidence and prevalence of late blight is achieved by adopting a late blight prediction and pre-warning system to instruct the chemical control on the field late blight. By adopting the prevention and control method, the disease plants are few, the yield is increased and is 25.7-45.8% higher than that of common planting, and the chemical spraying frequency is simultaneously reduced.

The invention relates to a single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) marker closely linked with a major wheat scab resistance quantitative trait locus (QTL). The SSCP marker is characterized in that: scab resistance candidate genes of a scab resistance QTL in a 3BS area of a wheat variety or strain resisting scab is PCR amplified by using a primer; after denaturalization, a PCR-amplified product has different single strand conformation; and the SSCP marker closely linked with the major wheat scab resistance QTL is established for detecting a genotype of the wheat variety or strain during breeding. The SSCP marker has the advantages of: overcoming the disadvantages that the wheat scab resistance screening can only be authenticated in a flowering period and is easily influenced by the environment in conventional breeding, predicting and screening wheat plants with the scab resistance by detecting a molecular marker at a seedling stage, eliminating disease plants, reducing waste of labor and materials and improving the breeding efficiency. Compared with an ABI DNA sequence analysis meter-based marker, the SSCP marker closely linked with the major wheat scab resistance QTL has the advantages of simple and convenient operation, low cost and same sensitivity.

The invention relates to a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) detection method for the specificity of radopholus similis and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of biology. In the LAMP method for the specificity of the radopholus similis, LAMP detection primers for the specificity of the radopholus similis in a reaction system are RSF3, RSB3, RSFIP, RSBIP and RSLF respectively, and the radopholus similis is detected quickly and specifically by extracting the DNA of the radopholus similis or single-head radopholus similis in diseased plant tissues and performing LAMP isothermal amplification. Therefore, the detection method is high in specificity and sensitivity and low in cost, is easy and convenient to operate, and has the high application value in aspects of the on-site quick detection of the radopholus similis and the early diagnosis of radopholus similis diseases.

The invention discloses a potato breeder's seed seedling-raising substrate and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the field of potato breeding and planting. The substrate comprises 20-40 parts of loam compound, 5 parts of potash fertilizer and 65-85 parts of specially-made organic fertilizer, wherein the loam compound comprises loam and a recycled substrate, the specially-made organic fertilizer is prepared by fermenting fallen leaves, manure, potato stems and leaves, coal ash powder and rice bran through microorganisms, and the fallen leaves include 60-80% of pine needles. The substrate mainly comprises the loam, the recycle substrate and the specially-made organism fertilizer. The specially-made organic fertilizer mainly comprises the fallen leaf pine needles, the manure and the potato stems and leaves free of diseased plants. The loam and the recycled substrate are exposed in sun and dried at high temperature, and the specially-made organic fertilizer is fermented at high temperature, so most bacteria, insect eggs and seeds can be killed, and convenient, clean and fertile substrate soil is provided for potato breeder's seed seedling-raising. The component raw materials of the substrate are wide in source, waste is reused due to the recycled substrate and the potato stems and leaves produced in seedling raising, and the substrate is quite suitable for being used and popularized in potato seedling raising bases in suburbs and countries.

A system (100), method and computer program product for determining plant diseases. The system includes an interface module (110) configured to receive an image (10) of a plant, the image (10) including a visual representation (11)of at least one plant element (1). A color normalization module (120) is configured to apply a color constancy method to the received image (10) to generate a color-normalized image. An extractor module (130) is configured to extract one or more image portions (11e) from the color-normalized image wherein the extracted image portions (11e) correspond to the at leastone plant element (1). A filtering module (140) configured: to identify one or more clusters (C1 to Cn) by one or more visual features within the extracted image portions (11e) wherein each cluster isassociated with a plant element portion showing characteristics of a plant disease; and to filter one or more candidate regions from the identified one or more clusters (C1 to Cn) according to a predefined threshold, by using a Bayes classifier that models visual feature statistics which are always present on a diseased plant image. A plant disease diagnosis module (150) configured to extract, byusing a statistical inference method, from each candidate region (C4, C5, C6, Cn) one or more visual features to determine for each candidate region one or more probabilities indicating a particulardisease; and to compute a confidence score (CS1) for the particular disease by evaluating all determined probabilities of the candidate regions (C4, C5, C6, Cn).

The invention provides a molecular detection primer of acidovorax avenae subsp. Citrulli and application thereof. The special primer comprises an upstream primer AIT1F: 5'-GCTGGATCACCTCCTTTCTG-3' and a downstream primer AIT2R: 5'-TGACGCAATCAAATTTTTGTCA-3'. Through PCG (Polymerase Chain Reation) amplification and agarose gel electrophoresis, a special amplification product with a fragment length of 462bp can be amplified in pure DNA of the acidovorax avenae subsp. Citrulli, a bacteria carrying disease plant tissue and a seed to rapidly detect the acidovorax avenae subsp. Citrulli. The special detection primer and the application thereof can be used for rapidly, sensitively and specially detecting the acidovorax avenae subsp. Citrulli in bacteria carrying watermelon seeds and plant seeds infected the acidovorax avenae subsp. Citrulli in production practice, can also be used for early diagnosis of field diseases and monitoring and identification of germs and provide a reliable technology and theoretical basis to control diseases caused by the acidovorax avenae subsp. Citrulli.

The invention discloses a method for treating the citrus yellow shoot. Particularly, the method includes the following steps of 1, the soil sterilization process; 2, the soil improvement process; 3, the process of treating root systems of diseased plants; 4, the nutrition supplementing process conducted after the plants are cured. According to the method, the citrus yellow shoot in rutaceous plants (especially rutaceous fruit trees) can be effectively treated, and prevention and treatment effects on the aspects of soil bad bacterium treatment, plant root system phloem bacillus treatment, plant nutrition supplementing, maintenance after cure and the like are provided. The whole technology is complete, effective and safe, organic biological material products used in the treatment process are all safe and free of toxins, no other pesticide needs to be used, the production cost is reduced, harvested fruits can achieve the purpose of zero pesticide residue, the freshness and taste are kept, and the yield of the fruits is increased.

The invention provides a primer pair and a probe which are used for detecting phytophthora hibernalis and a detection method for phytophthora hibernalis, the nucleotide sequence of the primer pair is shown as SEQ ID No. 1 and 2, and the nucleotide sequence of the probe is shown as SEQ ID No. 3. The invention further provides a RT-PCR method for detecting phytophthora hibernalis. The method comprises: taking total DNA of a sample as a template, utilizing the above primer pair and probe to perform real-time fluorescence PCR amplification, acquiring data after each circulation is finished, and determining the result according to an amplification curve after the reaction is finished. The method is capable of rapidly accurately detecting phytophthora hibernalis from in a complicated pathogenic bacteria environment in diseased plant tissues and soil. A detection kit constructed according to the method is simple in operation, good in specificity and high in sensitivity, and has important meaning on aspects of early warning of phytophthora hibernalis, pathogeny monitoring in epidemic areas, import and export safety and the like.

The invention discloses a WRKY20 protein and application of an encoding gene thereof in regulating stress resistance of plants. The WRKY20 protein disclosed by the invention is a protein as shown in A1), A2), A3) or A4), wherein A1) is a protein, the amino acid sequence of which is a sequence 4, A2) is a protein, the amino acid sequence of which is a sequence 13, A3) is a protein, the amino acid sequence of which is a sequence 14, and A4) is a protein, the amino acid sequence of which is a sequence 21. Experiments verify that reduction of the WRKY20 protein content plays a role of improving resisting cotton bollworm, two-spotted spider mite and aphids and increase of the WRKY20 protein content plays a role of preventing bemisia tabaci, fungal diseases and geminivirus for plants, thereby providing a gene resource for culturing new species of insect-resistant and/or anti-disease plants. The protein has relatively good potential application value.

The invention provides a control method for a tobacco black shank disease. The prevention effect on the tobacco black shank disease is better, the incidence rate of the tobacco black shank disease is greatly reduced, the effect is good, and the yield and the quality of tobacco are improved. The method is carried out according to the following modes: (1) ecological soil management comprising (1.1) application of 200-300ml of Difulai per acre and (1.2) biological control namely watering of the root by using a high yield technology; (2) agricultural control; (3) physical control, wherein diseased plant residual bodies are removed and are destroyed in a gathered manner; (4) chemical control, wherein after transplanting and seedling returning, the root is watered for one time by using metalaxyl-mancozeb, and the root is watered by using propamocarb hydrochloride water or metalaxyl-propamocarb wettable powder in a tobacco-growing area where black shank germs show resistance to metalaxyl. According to the method, the tobacco black shank disease can be effectively prevented by the ecological soil management; meanwhile, comprehensive control is carried out by taking the measures of agricultural control, physical control and the like, so that the average incidence rate of the tobacco black shank disease is reduced, the yield is increased, the tobacco grade is remarkably improved, and good economical benefits are gained.

The invention provides a method for eliminating a wilt disease strain in a banana garden subjected to an incipient disease at high temperature. The method comprises the following steps that the banana wilt disease strain is isolated; at least 100 jin or above of boiled boiling water is sprayed to soil which surrounds the banana wilt disease strain and is 40-50 cm away from the stalk, and water spraying continuous to be conducted in a surrounding mode; glyphosate is injected into the sucker stem bases of plants beside the banana wilt disease strain; finally, paecilomyces varioti E7 and bacillus complex bacteria are blended into fermented organic fertilizer to obtain bacterial manure; after the banana wilt disease strain pending to be injected with the glyphosate and plants beside the banana wilt disease strain die, the bacterial manure is scattered in the place surrounding the stem within 40 cm, and withered leaves cover the manure. According to the technical scheme, for the banana garden subjected to the incipient disease, the diseased plants are treated in time, fusarium oxysporum diffusion is reduced, the diseased plants are effectively prevented from being damaged, and fusarium oxysporum diffusion and infection are effectively removed and prevented.

The invention relates to a citrus reiculata blanco planting method. The citrus reiculata blanco planting method specifically includes the steps of (1) seedling treatment: selecting disease-free citrus reiculata blanco seedlings with complete root systems, and soaking the root systems of the citrus reiculata blanco seedlings in a rooting liquid for 3-5 seconds before planting; (2) soil cultivation; (3) planting: (4) water and fertilization management; (5) branch and leaf trimming and flower and fruit protection: after fruit picking and before budding in a period from February to April in every year, trimming off intersecting branches, weak branches, diseased and wormy branches, dead branches and long branches germinated in summer, and removing diseased plants; (6) fruit picking and after-picking management. The citrus reiculata blanco planting method has the advantages that the method is simple and easy to operate, survival rate and fruit bearing rate of the plants can be increased, probability of occurrence of plant diseases and insect pests is lowered, the amounts of selenium and sugar contained in fruits are increased, fruit quality is improved, and high economic value of the fruits is obtained.

An orange planting method provided by the invention comprises the following steps: (1) seedling treatment: selecting orange seedlings which have no diseases and have complete root systems as planting seedlings, and soaking the root systems into a rooting solution for 3-5 seconds before planting; (2) soil cultivation; (3) plantation; (4) water and fertilizer management; (5) branch and leaf trim, and flower and fruit protection: after fruit picking and before sprouting from February to April every year, trimming crossing branches, weak branches, insect-plague branches and dead branches, and trimming long branches which are sprouted in summer and removing diseased plants timely; and (6) fruit picking and management after the picking. The orange planting method provided by the invention has the advantages that the method is simple and practicable, can increase the survival rate and fruiting rate, reduce the occurrence probability of diseases and insect pests, increase the selenium content and sugar content of the fruits and increase fruit qualities, and has high economic values.

The invention discloses a pesticidal composition for treating fusarium wilt of cotton, which consists of the following raw materials in percentage by weight: 0.5 to 1.2 percent of 98 percent 3-indoleacetic acid, 0.2 to 0.6 percent of 50 percent naphthalene acetic acid, 1 to 3 percent of salicylic acid, 2 to 6 percent of plant activator protein, 35 to 59 percent of 40 percent acetic aldehyde and 35 to 59 percent of 55 percent white spirit. The pesticidal composition has the advantages of completely killing fusarium wilt bacteria within 30 minutes, stabilizing diseased plants without deterioration, beginning to recover the growth within five days, recovering within 8 to 12 days, controlling the recovery rate in a range from 85 to 93.5 percent and controlling the recurrence rate to be less than 11.5 percent.