82 results about "Lycopersicon" patented technology

The invention relates to a method for diagnosing the crop water deficit through a hyperspectral image technology, and especially relates to a method for diagnosing the Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. leaf area water based on hyperspectral images. The method comprises the following steps: 1, acquiring Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. leaf hyperspectral image data through a self-constructed hyperspectral imaging system; 2, selecting a characteristic wavelength by optimizing through an adaptive band selection process to realize multidimensional datum dimensionality reduction; 3, dividing the image ofeach sample at the characteristic wave, counter-rotating, carrying out form operation to obtain a target image, and extracting the leaf gray level and the leaf texture characteristic from the target image; and 4, selecting an optimal characteristic subclass through a GA-PLS (genetic algorithm-partial least square) process by fusing the gray scale and the texture characteristic and aiming at ten characteristic variables, and establishing a partial least square regression model based on the optimal characteristic, wherein the correlation coefficient R between a predicted value and a measured value of the model is 0.902. Compared with routine detection methods, the method of the invention has the advantages of rapid detection speed, and simple and convenient operation; and compared with a single near infrared spectroscopy or computer vision technical means, the method of the invention allows obtained information to be comprehensive, and the accuracy and the stability of the detection result to be improved.

Improved methods and compositions for protecting plants or seeds from plant diseases are provided. The compositions comprise (and preferably consist essentially of) saponin, such as triterpene type saponins extracted from quinoa or quillaja. Compositions according to the invention may comprise (or consist essentially of) a quantity of a sapogenin compound, preferably a sapogenins selected from the group consisting of oleanolic acid, hederagenin, phytolaccinic acid, and quillaic acid. The methods comprise contacting the portion of the plant (e.g., foliage, shoot, etc.) to be treated with a disease-inhibiting or protective amount of the composition. The compositions can also be used to treat plant seeds or tubers prior to planting thereof, as well as soil adjacent a growing plant. The inventive compositions are particularly useful for the treatment, control and/or prevention of bacterial diseases. The saponins of the invention can be applied as liquids or dry particulates, and are especially suited for the treatment of tomato and potato plants and their respective seeds.

A method for controlling pests and weeds on or around plants, especially crop plants. The method includes admixing 2-propenal or other related enal compounds to form an aqueous solution, and applying the aqueous solution to plants, plant seeds, weeds, or soil around the around the area in which the plants grow. The aqueous solution contains about 1 to about 1350 parts of the active compound per million parts of water, and is applied to the soil in amounts of from about 75 pounds to about 800 pounds of active compound per acre of soil. At lower application rates of from about 1 pound to about 100 pounds of the active compound per acre of soil, 2-propanol and related enal compounds have the beneficial effect of enhancing the growth of the plants. In addition, application of these enal compounds also helps in reducing transplant shock of tomato plants.

The invention discloses tomato 212 SNP loci as well as applications thereof to identification of variety authenticity and seed purity of Lycopersicon esculentum. In the applications, physical locations of 212 SNP loci are determined based on whole genome sequence alignment of Lycopersicon esculentum variety Heinz 1706, and the version number of a whole genome sequence of Lycopersicon esculentum variety Heinz 1706 is SL2.50. 212 SNP loci are used for establishing a Lycopersicon esculentum DNA fingerprint identification standard experimental system, which is rapid and accurate, economic and simple, stable and reliable, and on the basis, a method which is suitable for establishing a Lycopersicon esculentum finger-print bank, and identifying variety authenticity and seed purity. The method for identifying variety authenticity and seed purity of Lycopersicon esculentum, and has the advantages of fully improved experimental efficiency in time, rapid, accuracy, convenient operation, and the like; and the identification results are not influenced by environments.

The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid HNX12860544 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid HNX12860544 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.

The invention relates to a tomato pulp composition wherein the particle size is not greater than 2.5 which does not contain seeds or peels from the tomato and has a lycopene concentration which is 5 to 15 folds higher than the lycopene concentration in the tomatoes from which said pulp is obtained. The invention further provides an industrial process for obtaining tomato pulp and tomato concentrate from tomato juice. The invention further provides a method for controlling the viscosity and lycopene concentration of tomato products, tomato concentrate or modified tomato juice, by separating a part of the pulp from the tomato juice from which said tomato products are obtained.

The invention discloses seedling culturing substrates. The seedling culturing substrates are made from the following components in parts by weight: 21-33 parts of rice chaff, 55-85 parts of saw dust, 15-22 parts of coconut chaff, 1-5 parts of gypsum powder, 10-45 parts of bagasse, 55-75 parts of sheep manure, 9-13 parts of modified diatomite, 20-50 parts of kaolin, 25-35 parts of chicken manure, 5-10 parts of amidinothiourea and 8-15 parts of chloromethyl pyridine. The seedling culturing substrates disclosed by the invention are made from the rice chaff, the saw dust, the coconut chaff, the gypsum powder, the bagasse, the sheep manure, the modified diatomite, the kaolin, the chicken manure, the amidinothiourea and the chloromethyl pyridine in a specific compounding ratio, can perfectly replace turf to be used as soilless culturing substrates, and can well provide nutrients for lycopersicon esculentum in soilless culture.

The invention discloses a KASP primer combination suitable for lycopersicon esculentum DNA fingerprint database construction and application of the KASP primer combination. Developed lycopersicon esculentum KASP core primers and a variety detection kit can be used for identifying the variety of to-be-detected lycopersicon esculentume, thus operation of distinguishing variety authenticity becomes accurate and convenient, the KASP primer combination is throughout a whole lycopersicon esculentum genome, comprises a unique amplification stable point, and has strong representativeness; and the kitis stable and reliable in detection result and rapid and easy to operate, and scale and standardized detection can be achieved.

A homestyle salsa blend which includes fresh tomato (or stewed tomato), tomato paste, yellow onions, green onions, Bell pepper, garlic salt, seasoned salt, black pepper, lemon juice, parsley, cilantro, serrano pepper, jalapeno pepper, and habenero pepper.

A split stream method for processing tomatoes. The benefits of split stream processing can be more fully realized when the split streams are re-combined under specific processing conditions. In particular, under specified conditions of shear and heat, the potential viscosity of the thick stream is fully harvested. The amount of shear used in accordance with the invention is significantly greater than the amount required to reconstitute at least some prior pastes.

The present invention relates to a SP3D promotor sequence, capable of directing transcription of a downstream SP3D gene that is operably linked to said promotor sequence, wherein the promotor sequence is derived from a species of the Solanaceae family having a sympodial index of 2, for reducing sympodial index in plants having a sympodial index of 3 or more. The invention also relates to methods for providing plants of the Solanaceae family, in particular S. lycopersicum, having a reduced sympodial index comprising of introducing into the genome of said plants a promotor sequence according to any of the claims 1-8 in operable linkage with a downstream SP3D gene, or introducing into said plants a gene construct according to any of the claims 9 to 15, such that the sympodial index of the plant with the promotor sequence or gene construct is reduced as compared to the plant without said promotor sequence or gene construct, and to plants obtainable by said methods.

A tomato product with Brix similar to the Brix of a raw tomato; lycopene content in the range of 600% to 1200% of that of a raw tomato, and viscosity of 3 to 14 cm according to the Bostwick analysis method.

This invention relates to a tomato plant, seed, variety and hybrid. More specifically, the invention relates to a tomato plant having a mutant allele for allflesh which results in the tomato fruit having a cavity area which is solid and lacks a gel or liquid. The invention also relates to crossing inbreds, varieties and hybrids containing the allflesh allele to produce novel types and varieties of tomato plants.

The subject invention pertains to materials and methods for producing plants that are resistant to infection by geminiviruses and other related viruses. Methods of the invention comprise transforming a plant with a polynucleotide wherein when the polynucleotide is expressed in the plant, the transformed plant exhibits resistance to plant viral infections. Exemplified herein is the use of a polynucleotide encoding a Rep protein derived from tomato mottle geminivirus. The methods of the invention can be used to provide resistance to viral infection in plants such as tomato and tobacco. The present invention also concerns transformed and transgenic plants in plant tissue that express a polynucleotide encoding a plant virus Rep protein, or a fragment or variant thereof.

A tomato stake is provided. The tomato stake includes an elongated insertion member having an insertion end and an exposed end having an outer diameter and an elongated tubular member having an inner diameter being larger than the outer diameter. The tubular member is disposed over the exposed end. The tubular member may optionally include a plurality of support pins extending therefrom. A method of installing the tomato stake is also provided.

The invention discloses a Bacillus amyloliquefaciens 2YN11 for disease prevention, growth promotion, quality improvement and adversity resistance of Lycopersicon esculentum, and an application thereof. The above strain is classified and named as Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, and is preserved in China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center on June 13, 2016 with the preservation number of CGMCC NO.12606. The biocontrol effect of a preparation of the strain on various Lycopersicon esculentum diseases after root Bacillus amyloliquefaciens 2YN11 pouring treatment reaches 47.05% or above, and is very obvious; the preparation obviously improves the plant height and the root length, and has a certain growth promotion effect on plants; and farmland crops treated with the 2YN11 has a 30.54%or above higher yield, remarkably better Lycopersicon esculentum fruit mouthfeel and remarkable better nutrient indexes than a control group.