229 results about "Plant Structures" patented technology

The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able confer the trait of modulated plant size, vegetative growth, organ number, plant architecture, sterility or seedling lethality in plants. The present invention further relates to the use of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides in making transgenic plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having such modulated growth or phenotype characteristics that are altered with respect to wild type plants grown under similar conditions.

The invention discloses a planting structure and a planting method thereof, aiming to solve the problem of water shortage for plant growth in arid regions and guarantee good plant growth and vegetation recovery in the arid regions. The planting structure comprises a planting pit and a planting soil layer in the planting pit. An impermeable film is arranged on the surface of the planting pit. An evaporation-resisting cover film is arranged at the upper end of the planting soil layer. A cover soil layer is arranged at the upper end of the cover film. By the planting structure, permeation and evaporative loss of moisture are remarkably reduced, rainwater collection, confluence and storage into the planting pit are facilitated, the planting pit can have sufficient moisture for plants to absorb, and accordingly, survival rate of planted plants is guaranteed. The planting method is simple in technology, low in cost and obvious in effect in the acid regions, and is of great significance in improving planting survival rate of plants in the acid regions and recovering vegetation.

The invention discloses a method for estimating plant growth biomass liveweight variation based on virtual plants, aiming to the defect that a linkage relationship between a vegetation structure model and a mechanism model is ignored in the current method for estimating forest biomass liveweight variation. The method for estimating the plant growth biomass liveweight variation comprises the following steps of: firstly obtaining morphology parameters and textures of simulated plants, and establishing a plant geometric model based on a plant growth rule and a parameterization L-system; simulating photosynthetically active radiation in a virtual canopy by utilizing a ray tracing method based on the plant geometric model and applying to plant biomass liveweight accumulation, and establishing a plant structure-function feedback model; feeding parameter values obtained by calculation of the functional model back to the plant structure model, carrying out plant growth and development simulation at a certain growth cycle or a plurality of growth cycles; and simulating the photosynthetically active radiation in the virtual canopy on the grown and developed plant geometric structure model again, so repeatedly, dynamically developing the radiation simulation, and finally estimating the plant growth biomass liveweight in the simulated cycle(s).

Method and device for checking logical software engines for commanding railway plants, particularly station plants, include at least a computer with at least a central processing unit and at least a memory for loading and executing programs, a logical engine for commanding a plant, particularly a station plant, being loaded or loadable in said memory for its execution, which plant comprises a plurality of operating units for actuating and / or detection and / or measurement and / or signalling, so-called wayside equipments, which units are provided for receiving command signals and for transmitting control signals about the operating condition, and which logical software engine reads control signals given by the operating units for actuating and / or detection and / or measurement and / or signalling and its processes command signals of said operating units based on an operation protocol of the plant itself. According to the invention, in the computer memory there is loaded or loadable and is executable by the computer a software simulation program of the plant that must be controlled and commanded by the control and command logical program, which simulation program reproduces faithfully the plant structure and the operating modes of the operating units provided in said plant.

The invention relates to a soil salinity determining method based on a continuum removal method. The soil salinity determining method comprises the following steps: (1) collecting and processing a soil sample; (2) testing the salt content of the soil sample; (3) carrying out spectrum test on the soil sample to obtain the actual reflection spectral data of the soil sample; (4) processing the spectral data and extracting absorption characteristic parameters; (5) processing the spectral index; (6) carrying out model building and precision evaluation. The soil salinity determining method based on the continuum removal method, disclosed by the invention, is simple and reasonable in operating steps and low in cost and has the advantages that the real situation of soil salinization can be effectively reflected and a new acquiring way is provided for decision bases of salinization evaluation, improvement and control and plant structure adjustment of cultivated soil, thus the soil salinity determining method is suitable for popularization and application.

A fabric having moisture management function, which has a structure simulating plant structure and comprises at least two layers as follows: a bottom layer, which is of a leno or matt structure simulating main stem of plant, in which a number of yarns are grouped together to form a plurality of fabric units; said bottom layer can be adapted to be in contact with human skin; a top layer, which is of a plain weave structure, in which the yarns of said fabric unit further split in the top layer to form such a plain weave structure, simulating the branching in plant structure; wherein, in said fabric, water can be transported from the bottom layer to the middle layer and further to the top layer where it evaporates due to the improved capillarity of the yarns so as to provide better moisture management function.

The invention provides a desert planting structure, wherein the desert planting structure comprises a desert soil layer, an air-permeable impermeable layer and a planting soil layer, the air-permeable impermeable layer is positioned upon the desert soil layer, and the planting soil layer is positioned upon the air-permeable impermeable layer. The invention also provides a desert soil amendment method, wherein the method includes the following steps: arranging the air-permeable impermeable layer on the desert soil layer, and arranging the planting soil layer on the air-permeable impermeable layer. The invention also provides a planting method for desert soil, wherein the method includes the following steps: amending the desert soil, and planting plants and / or plant seeds into the amended desert soil; and the amendment method for the desert soil is the desert soil amendment method provided by the invention. The desert planting structure, the desert soil amendment method and the plantingmethod for the desert soil, which are provided by the invention, can effectively improve the growth status of plants and remarkably reduce water consumption.

The invention discloses a construction method of a nuclear power plant project, which comprises the following steps that: S1. building the floor slabs and walls of all room units in the base area of a plant structure; S2. leading installation objects into all the room units through hoisting equipment; S3. sealing the roofs of all the room units; S4. after sealing the roofs, continuing to carry out installation construction in the room units while carrying out the civil engineering construction of the plant in an upper area; S5. installing the installation objects in all rooms in place, and decorating; S6. debugging the equipment in all the room units; and S7. repeating the six steps of the construction of the nuclear power plant project. The nuclear power plant project construction method sets the construction modes of a civil engineering project and a mechanical and electronic installation project into parallel, thereby not only greatly shortening the construction period of the nuclear power plant project but also solving the problems that some large equipment is difficult to lead in and the utilization of large special hoisting equipment, so as to reduce the installation difficulty of the equipment, improve the installation quality and reduce the construction cost of the nuclear power plant.

Nanoparticles (NPs) may be used to transform the energy of harmful or less useful wavelengths into beneficial and more useful wavelengths of light for a multitude of purposes including, for example, promotion of photosynthesis, enhancing germination timing, enhancing bloom timing. In one embodiment, a greenhouse structure may include nanoparticles embedded in a glass or plastic panel, or may include nanoparticles disposed on a surface of such a panel, to alter the wavelength of available light to a desired wavelength in order to alter an event associated with plant life contained within the greenhouse structure. In another embodiment, nanoparticles may be applied directly to a part of a plant structure (e.g., leaves, stems, etc.) to alter a characteristic of light before receipt of the light by the plant.

The invention discloses a leaf area vertical distribution information extraction method for a corn plant. The method comprises the steps of utilizing a laser radar as a data source, identifying a corn leaf echo point cloud by means of a normal-based differential method; voxelizing a corn plant echo point cloud, and extracting leaf area vertical distribution information by means of a canopy analysis method. The leaf area vertical distribution information extraction method has advantages of quickly and accurately extracting leaf area vertical distribution information of the corn plant, simplifying a corn plant structure parameter extracting process, improving automatic degree and furthermore realizing no damage of the corn leaf.

An article of manufacture, comprising: an animal repellant dispersed over an artificial plant structure. The artificial plant structure may be a whole artificial plant or an artificial plant portion. The invention is also an article of manufacture comprising a band, wherein the band has an animal repellant or insect repellent disposed thereon. The band is suitable for wrapping a garden fixture or garden article. The band could also be worn by a human to repel insects when the band has insect repellent disposed thereon.

The invention relates to a substrate material coated with polymer needled tufts of a natural-Opuntia-microdasys-plant-like structure and a preparation method thereof. The substrate material is composed of a plurality of polymer needled tufts fixed on a porous hollow three-dimensional substrate material having gradient wettability, wherein each polymer needled tuft is composed of a plurality of polymer main needles of which the roots are fixed together; each polymer main needle has needled structure characteristics owned by plants such as natural Opuntia microdasys; and the external surface of the porous hollow three-dimensional substrate material having gradient wettability is hydrophobic, and the internal surface is hydrophilic. The polymer needled tufts can efficiently collect micro liquid drops in the air and change the liquid drops into utilizable fresh water, and the collected water can be transferred by the substrate material having gradient wettability from the hydrophobic side of the external surface of the substrate material to the hydrophilic side of the internal surface, so that the water collection efficiency of the substrate material coated with polymer needled tufts of an Opuntia-microdasys-plant-like structure (a natural-cereus-plant-like structure) is greatly improved.

The application discloses a method for calculating potential of water and land resources of regional agriculture. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining agricultural water resource quantity, a utilization coefficient of irrigation water, soil type, agricultural acreage, a crop plant structure, meteorological factor data and main crop water demand data of a region to be calculated; calculating a matching index of current water and land resources of the region to be calculated, and calculating current regional production capacity according to the obtained data; building a multi-target water and land resource optimization configuration model of the region to be calculated; solving a water and land resource optimization configuration result of the region to be calculated by the multi-target water and land resource optimization configuration model, and calculating the regional production capacity at the optimal water and land resource matching index according to the water and land resource optimization configuration result; calculating a difference value between the regional production capacity at the optimal water and land resource matching index and the current regional production capacity, and obtaining the potential of agricultural water and land resources of the region to be calculated. Therefore, the matching situation of the water and land resources in the region can be reflected, and help can be offered to scientific configuration of the water and land resources.

System and methods may qualify plant material. A system for qualifying plant material may include an inspection zone, a support stage configured to support the plant material in the inspection zone, at least one camera configured to acquire at least one image of the plant material in the inspection zone, at least one processor configured to receive and analyze the camera image to identify a region of interest containing specific plant structures possessing active component, and at least one spectrometer configured to acquire a spectrometric measurement of the plant material in the inspection zone. The at least one processor may be further configured to facilitate a spectrometric measurement of the specific plant structures identified in the camera image, and to enable output of an indicator of a quality measure of the plant material based on the spectrometric measurement of the specific plant structures identified in the camera image.

The invention relates to a satellite remote sensing product system for agricultural application. A professional product production algorithm model is extracted, and archiving, saving and data management are conducted on remote sensing special product data; product online retrieval according to the options such as administrative regions, time, crop types, product types and the like is provided; online in-depth mining of special product information such as planting structures, crop area, real-time growth, process growth, yield of per unit area, total output and the like of soybeans, corns, rice,peanuts and the other crops is provided, and macroscopic remote sensing products adopt quantitative digital expression to visually understand the agricultural situation and development trend in the area-of-interest; operation such as online editing, modification and downloading of reports on statistical special products is provided; in addition, online ordering and customization services for industry specific products are provided, and multiaspect requirements for data are provided.

The invention relates to a multilevel distribution type constant pressure irrigation system, which comprises a primary constant pressure water supply system and constant pressure maintaining type water flow servo valves for implementing secondary constant pressure water supply. A spray irrigation unit requiring high water pressure is directly connected to the primary constant pressure water supply system with optimal constant sprinkling irrigation water pressure, and a microspray irrigation unit and a drip irrigation unit which require lower water pressure pass through the constant pressure maintaining type water flow servo valve and another constant pressure maintaining type water flow servo valve respectively prior to being connected to the primary constant pressure water supply system,wherein one constant pressure maintaining type water flow servo valve has water supply pressure constant at optimal microspray irrigation water supply pressure, and the other constant pressure maintaining type water flow servo valve has water supply pressure constant at optimal drip irrigation water supply pressure. Difference of water supply pressure of spray irrigation, microspray irrigation and drip irrigation is fully utilized, and the multilevel distribution type constant pressure irrigation system has the advantages of low input, high reliability and convenience in management. The multilevel distribution type constant pressure irrigation system is flexible and convenient, capable of supplying water at constant pressure to the spray irrigation unit, the microspray irrigation unit andthe drip irrigation unit which have different water supply pressure requirements, not limited by planting structure, planting scale and irrigation modes, and quite suitable for existing agricultural production and operation modes with operation in family units.

The present disclosure concerns apparatus and methods useful in estimating crop yields of plants that are supported on a trellis. According to one aspect, a method for measuring the mass of trellised plant structures includes measuring the tension of a support wire of the trellis structure on which the plant structures are supported, such as with a load cell placed in-line with the support wire. The tension of the support wire is converted into the mass of new plant growth supported on the support wire, using, for example, an empirically derived algorithm specific to the trellis structure.

The invention relates to a natural repairing and recovering method of deteriorated grassland in the loess plateau, and belongs to the technical field of recovering methods of the deteriorated grassland. The method is based on forbidden recovering and supplemented by the manual control and manual interference measures, namely cement stand columns, chain line fences and other forbidden facilities are arranged to completely forbid the original areas where grassland vegetation is destroyed and degraded seriously or agriculture and forestry can not be operated and forage grass can grow, human and animal interference can be controlled strictly, and chance and time for living and multiplying of grassland are given. The method can improve the converge degree of deteriorated grassland vegetation by 50-75% and the biomass of the grassland vegetation by 50-80%, the diversity of species is richer and richer, the number of grassland vegetation and species is increased to 313 from 68 before the forbidding, the grassland quality is improved, and in the plant structure of the recovered grassland community, the grass family and feverfew plants account for 26.8%, the beam or pea family plants account for 8.3%, and the other plants accounting for 64.9% are included in the 33 families. The ecological economy and social benefits of the grassland are significant, and the grassland becomes the demonstration model of the loess plateau.

The invention discloses a sectional assembling and mounting method for a converter vaporization flue, wherein the mounting method comprises the following construction steps: step I, carrying out construction preparation; step II, assembling, wherein a vaporization cooling flue basically enters a site in a sectional mode as a result of a large diameter, an inclined section II and an inclined section II are combined together as well as a corner flue I and a corner flue II are assembled together for reducing safety accidents for working high above the ground under a condition that turning is permitted in a plant structure space; and step III: hoisting, wherein the inclined section assembly is firstly hoisted, and the corner section assembly is hoisted after the inclined section assembly is hoisted. The sectional assembling and mounting method disclosed by the invention has the advantage of saving use of large hoisting equipment, improving efficiency of labor, reducing labor intensity, avoiding or reducing risks caused by working high above the ground, and improving mounting control risks.

The invention determines a construction method suitable for a streamside plant structure in a northern cold region. The construction method includes the steps of: selecting a region with annual average temperature of 4-10 degrees and temperate continental climate as a respondent, and a streamside of a natural protection area with rich vegetation as a research site, determining corresponding streamside plant species, determining varieties and quantities of arbors, shrubs, herbaceous plants and aquatic plants, planting one kind of arbors, shrubs, herbaceous plants and aquatic plants at the streamside or sequentially planting the arbors, shrubs, herbaceous plants and aquatic plants at the streamside in a mixed manner; the various plants are planted at the soft river bank, which is sandy river bank or sludge river bank, according to a certain proportion and a certain gradient. Farmland drainage involved in the streamside region is introduced into the streamside, and flows into the river after being purified by the streamside. The monitoring results show that the streamside has good removal effect to SS and nitrogen and phosphorus.

The invention relates to a high-silicon porzite in gramineous plant structure biomorph and a preparation method of the high-silicon porzite in gramineous plant structure biomorph. According to the technical scheme, the preparation method comprises the following steps of impregnating for 3-24 hours under the condition of normal pressure or the pressure of 10<3>-10<4> Pa by taking 10%-70% by weight of a gramineous plant as a template and 30%-90wt% of aluminum sol as an impregnant, and uniformly stirring; baking the gramineous plant impregnated with the aluminum sol under the condition of 60-200 DEG C for 24-48 hours, and then preserving heat under the condition of 1100-1400 DEG C for 2-12 hours to obtain the high-silicon porzite in the gramineous plant structure biomorph. The preparation method disclosed by the invention is not only capable of integrally retaining the intrinsic structures of natural plants, but also capable of forming porzite nanoparticles on the surfaces of the hole walls of the natural plants, thereby thinning the hole structure and enhancing the frame strength, the high-temperature volume stability and the acid-proof and alkali-proof corrosivity; the porous morphological intrinsic structure has large specific area and has high potential in the fields of high-temperature insulation, catalyst carriers and the like.

The invention discloses a computer method for comparing similarity of different plant forms. The plant topological structure features, peripheral contour features and organ geometry structure information are utilized, and the method comprises the steps of firstly adopting the simplified topological structure of a tree graph describing plant, then computing the similarity of the topological structure based on a tree graph editing distance method, then computing the similarity of three-dimensional convex hulls comprising plants among projections of a plurality of planes based on the two-dimensional graph similarity algorithm, on the basis of the similarity, integrating two-dimensional similarity values in all the projections so as to compute the similarity of peripheral contours of the plants, then, comprehensively considering the geometric attribute of subtrees of all levels, computing the similarity of geometric details of the plants, finally, fusing multi-feature information of the plants, and calculating the similarity among different plant structures. According to the method, form similarity of the different plants can be quantized, and the aim of distinguishing varieties or subjects of the different plants through the similarity can be achieved.

The invention discloses a determination and evaluation method for the quality of lychees suitable for can processing. According to the method, the total acidity, brittleness and chromatic aberration a0 value of a to-be-detected lychee are only required to be determined; the determined values are substituted into the formula that Y is equal to a sum of a difference obtained by subtracting a product of 8.319 and the total acidity and a product of 0.445 and a0 value from (-2.471) and a product of 0.080 and the brittleness; if Y is larger than or equal to minus 1.55, the to-be-detected lychee is suitable for being processed into a can; and if Y is larger than minus 4.29 and smaller than minus 1.55, the to-be-detected lychee is basically suitable for being processed into the can; and if Y is smaller than or equal to minus 4.29, the to-be-detected lychee is not suitable for being processed into the can. According to the method, lychee can processing is studied with a scientific method, an evaluation method is established, determination of special lychee varieties suitable for can processing is facilitated, healthy and fast development of processing industry for agricultural products is promoted, and important basis can be also provided for lychee breeding, raw material base establishment and adjustment of a plant structure for farmers.

The disclosure pertains to methods and compositions for the rapid and efficient transformation of plants. The disclosure further provides methods for producing a transgenic plant, comprising (a) transforming a cell of an explant with an expression construct comprising (i) a nucleotide sequence encoding a WUS / WOX homeobox polypeptide; (ii) a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide comprising twoAP2-DNA binding domains; or (iii) a combination of (i) and (ii); and (b) allowing expression of the polypeptide of (a) in each transformed cell to form a regenerable plant structure in the absence ofexogenous cytokinin, wherein no callus is formed; and (c) germinating the regenerable plant structure to form the transgenic plant. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.

The invention discloses a piezoelectric sensor used for deformation monitoring of a pressure self-powered underground hydropower station plant structure. The piezoelectric sensor comprises a piezoelectric energy acquisition module, a stress wave piezoelectric induction acquisition module, a wireless signal transmitting module and an integrated circuit module and is buried into a concrete building in an intelligent aggregate form in the construction process of an underground hydropower station plant. The piezoelectric energy acquisition module adopts a piezoelectric cantilever beam structure made of a main material, namely, a PZT piezoelectric intelligent material, forced vibration is produced due to environment excitation, and electric energy is produced on the basis of the piezoelectric effect; the stress wave piezoelectric induction acquisition module adopts a PZT piezoelectric intelligent material as a main material and directly acquires and converts concrete structure vibration characteristics in the form of stress wave into an electrical signal, and the electrical signal can reflect deformation, stress and crack states of the structure after being analyzed; the integrated circuit module and the wireless signal transmitting module provide electric energy modulation transfer and monitored electrical signal output functions for main work modules respectively.

The invention relates to the field of pharmaceutical equipment, and particularly relates to an extraction apparatus. A biomimic membrane separation and extraction apparatus comprises a cavity provided with at least two ultrasonic generators and two filter cores, wherein the filter cores are respectively an impurity filter core and a biomimic membrane filter core; the biomimic membrane filter core is disposed at the lower end of the impurity filter core. With the above technical solution, effective components are compelled to be separated from a plant structure and passes through the filter core rapidly by using a cavatition effect of the ultrasonic at a normal temperature and a normal pressure. The biomimic membrane separation and extraction apparatus is simple in operations, short in production period and good in extraction quality, and overcomes disadvantages that the effective components are broken at a state with a high temperature and a high pressure.

A method and apparatus for dimensionally characterizing a target structure. In an example of the apparatus, the apparatus has a pole having a bottom end and a top end, an indicator system adapted to apprise an operator of the position of a dimension determination system relative to the target structure, and a measurement system adapted to apprise the operator of a dimension of one or more features of the target structure. In another example, the method includes taking a pole having a bottom and top end with a height determination system, a height indicator system and a height measurement system, orienting the pole relative to the plant structure, raising the height determination system to the height of the target plant structure, and determining the height of the target plant structure.

The invention discloses a single stem plant digitalized construction method based on a growth model and relates to the technical field of agricultural information. The method comprises the following steps of (1) preprocessing experiment observation data and establishing the growth model of a single stem plant through statistic package for social science (SPSS) statistical software; (2) establishing an assimilation reallocation model based on a plant structure; (3) reconstructing plant morphologic change and establishing a single stem plant digitalized model; and (4) achieving digitization of a single stem plant. A plant growth model is obtained through experiments, a plant digitalization model capable of reflecting plant growth mechanism accurately is established and computer simulation of the plant growth process is achieved due to the model so that plant growth and development in different external environments can be forecasted due to a plant digitalization result.