32 results about "Vascular plant" patented technology

In mesic environments, erosion control measures usually employ the establishment of vegetative cover by vascular plants in order to hold the soil in place. The current art often includes the application of seeds, chemical fertilizers, tackifiers, and mulches to promote the growth of vascular plants. However, arid environments so not support dense vegetative cover, but are instead dominated by photosynthetic microorganisms, primarily cyanobacteria and lichens. The cyanobacteria not only hold the soil in place, but also are the primary source of fixed nitrogen in arid environments. Disclosed herein, is a description of an apparatus and methods for the production and preservation of a photobiofertilizer as a means for repairing disturbed arid soils.

The invention aims to solve the problems of over spread of large-sized vascular plants in grass-type lakes and over-strong biological deposit-promoting effect and provide a technique and a method for restraining grass and controlling sludge for improving the growing water quality condition of aquatic plants and accelerating bottom sludge decomposition. Iron, aluminum and calcium oxides in cinder can strongly adsorb phosphate radical in the water body, the loose and porous surface of the cinder is favorable for the fixation and growth of soil microbes, and a formed biological membrane can effectively remove organic substances and ammonia nitrogen from the water body and accelerate the biological decomposition of the lake bottom sludge. The cinder is filled in a nylon bag and the nylon bag is fixed in a ground cage for facilitating reclamation and preventing physical deposition at the lake bottom. By using the existing resources in rural areas of China and using the local materials, the method is convenient and feasible, and has strong operability and wide application; and the implementation of the technique does not affect the primary ecological function of the ecosystem of the lake and has significance for maintaining the ecological health of the grass-type lakes for long term.

The invention discloses a method for quickly growing a bryophyte crust on the cross section of an expressway slope. The method comprises the following steps: performing natural air drying on crust bryophytes together with very thin crust soil, and then smashing; uniformly spraying with water to wet fiber grid cells on an expressway slope, uniformly spreading the smashed soil-mixed bryophyte fragments on the cross section of a fiber grid, compacting the bryophytes with a flat tool, and covering with a plastic film; and pricking a certain number of pinholes in the film, and performing shading treatment on the film with a shading net to ensure that scattered light is received. According to the invention, the crust bryophytes are taken as basic materials, and the quick bryophyte propagation method is used for the cross section of an expressway, the cross section of mining area exploitation and other places where ecological environment of soil is destroyed, so that a bryophyte crust is formed on the surface of the soil, and the bryophyte crust can achieve the effects of rainfall interception and soil organic nutrient accumulation improvement, thereby laying a foundation for survival of advanced vascular plants in the later period.

Systems and methods are described for the production and application of a cyanobacteria based biological soil crust inoculant for soil fertilization, soil stabilization and the drawing down and sequestering of atmospheric carbon. Inoculant is generated as a dry granulate that can be stockpiled and spread onto soils using standard agricultural spreading practices employing aircraft, ground equipment and irrigation systems. This inoculant will have particular application in stabilizing agricultural and arid land soils to limit their erosion, increasing soil fertility by fixing atmospheric nitrogen and providing nutrients, and drawing down atmospheric carbon dioxide by stimulating the growth and propagation of these biological soil crusts and their associated microorganisms and vascular plants. The effect of this carbon dioxide draw down will further the broad scale application of the soil crust inoculant by industries and nations interested in offsetting their anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions while increasing the fertility of their soils.

A method for identifying a mutation associated with a phenotype of interest in a non- vascular plant, wherein the method comprises (a) aligning the DNA sequence of a reference DNA sequence and identifying a first set of sequence mismatches between the two sequences; wherein the test sample is from a mutagenized non-vascular plant; (b) aligning the DNA sequence of at least one comparison sample to the reference DNA sequence and identifying a second set of sequence mismatches between the two sequences; (c) filtering the first set of mismatches with respect to the second set of mismatches to identify a subset of mismatches that are unique to the first set of mismatches, wherein the subset of mismatches are candidate mutations for the causative mutation; wherein the test sample is from a non-vascular plant exhibiting the phenotype of interest and wherein the at least one comparison sample is from an independent non- vascular plant of the same genus that does not exhibit the phenotype of interest; and wherein the reference DNA sequence is a known reference sequence for a non-vascular plant of the genus. In addition, a method for identifying a mutation associated with a phenotype of interest in a non-vascular plant, wherein the method comprises a) aligning the DNA sequence of a reference DNA sequence and identifying a first set of sequence mismatches between the two sequences; wherein the test sample is from a mutagenized non-vascular plant; (b) aligning the DNA sequence of at least one comparison sample to the reference DNA sequence and identifying a second set of sequence mismatches between the two sequences; (c) filtering the first set of mismatches with respect to the second set of sequence mismatches to identify a subset of mismatches that are common to the first and second sets of sequence mismatches wherein the test sample and the comparison sample(s) are from independent non-vascular plants exhibiting the phenotype of interest and wherein the independent non-vascular plants are the same genus; and wherein the reference DNA sequence is a known reference sequence or a non-vascular plant of the genus or a non-vascular plant of the genus.

The present invention provides methods of selectively controlling lignin biosynthesis in plants such that lignification is reduced or enhanced, as desired. The invention provides, for example, a method of reducing lignification in a vascular plant by ectopically expressing a nucleic acid molecule encoding an AGL8-like gene product in the plant, whereby lignification is reduced due to ectopic expression of the nucleic acid molecule. An AGL8-like gene product useful in the invention can have, for example, substantially the amino acid sequence of an AGL8 ortholog such as Arabidopsis AGL8 (SEQ ID NO:2).

The invention discloses a hyperspectral remote sensing method for estimating the species richness of a vascular plant, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining remote sensing data, carrying out the radiation correction, geometric correction and terrain correction, and extracting spectral data; correcting and checking the obtained spectral data to ensure that no data error exists; smoothing the obtained spectral data, and obtaining the mean value of intermediate data on the basis of four adjacent data; calculating a first-order spectral derivative; calculating the first-order derivative ratio of each waveband; and calculating a species diversity index estimated value. According to the method, the diversity of the plant species can be rapidly estimated, and the method can be widely applied to rapid evaluation of the abundance of the vascular plant species in grassland, grassland, shrubs, farmlands, nursery lands and the like; different from a large amount of manpower and material resources consumed by on-site quadrat investigation or a large amount of expenditure for purchasing remote sensing images, the diversity index of the plant species can be rapidly determined, a large amount of manpower and material resource investment is not needed, and the method has the advantages of efficient information processing and investment cost saving.

The invention relates to a device for planting submerged vascular plants and floating plants in a suspension manner, belonging to the construction field of ecological restoration engineering and landscape water. The device consists of a support frame (1), a horizontal cable (2), cables (3) and a planting pot (4), wherein the lower end of the support frame is inserted in substrate sludge (5), both ends of the horizontal cable are respectively arranged on the support frame, the cables are vertically suspended on the horizontal cable at equal intervals and the lower end of the cable is provided with a fixed sleeve, and plants (6) are planted in the planting pot arranged inside the fixed sleeve (3); the support frame 1 is composed of four support rods and two sway rods (7); and the fixed sleeve is a rope loop fixed by three ropes. The device is prepared from conventional marketing materials according to a conventional method. The device has the following advantages: firstly, the device is simple in structure, low in cost, high in stability and resistance to storm; secondly, the position of the planting pot is convenient to adjust, which is beneficial to photosynthesis of plants and ensures high survival rate; and thirdly, the plants absorb enriched nutritional substances in the water so that the water quality is efficiently improved, and the device is particularly suitable for ecological water management of eutrophic plateau lakes.

The invention provides an on-line dynamic monitoring method for biomass of a large vascular plant in a small area range. The method comprises the steps as follows: a demonstration site for area characteristics is established, and spectrogram of the large vascular plant is shot; the result obtained by shooting with a multi-spectrum camera is converted through an NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index) conversion formula to obtain the NDVI of the large vascular plant within the range of the demonstration site; the NDVI is converted into NPP (net primary productivity) through a light energy conversion model; the relationship between NDVI and the biomass within the range of the demonstration site is obtained according to the biomass obtained through actual sampling; area TM image data with lower precision are regressed and adjusted respectively to obtain a function equation between the NDVI and the area TM image data; and the area NPP is obtained through the light energy conversion model again. Compared with traditional manual sampling and monitoring, the online dynamic monitoring method provided by the invention improves real-time performance and convenience of biomass monitoring, facilitates scientific management of small-area environment and ecology, improves precision of biomass monitoring in a whole area, is simple and convenient in data processing, and is high in operability.

The invention discloses a black and odorous water treatment system based on a constructed wetland. The black and odorous water treatment system includes a coagulative precipitation pool, a water inletarea, a constructed wetland pool, a water collection channel and monitoring equipment; the coagulative precipitation pool is communicated with the water inlet area, the water inlet area is communicated with the constructed wetland pool, the constructed wetland pool is communicated with the water collection channel, and the water inlet of the monitoring equipment is communicated with the constructed wetland pool; a filter medium and aquatic vascular plants are arranged inside the constructed wetland pool, wherein the aquatic vascular plants are located on the filter medium; the filter mediumis prepared from, by weight, 10-20 parts of gravel, 5-15 parts of coarse sand, 15-30 parts of limestone, 10-15 parts of zeolite and 40-50 parts of ceramic granules. By adopting the black and odorous water treatment system based on the constructed wetland, nitrogen and phosphorus in a water body are absorbed, the adsorption performance is high, the treating performance of the constructed wetland isensured, the COD removal rate reaches 70%, the TN removal rate reaches 60%, the TP removal rate reaches 50%, the content of dissolved oxygen is greater than 4 gm/L, and index parameters are monitoredonline.

A vegetated canopy is provided with a support structure and a vegetation support assembly including a plurality of soil containers supported by a plurality of brackets, a plurality of ribs supported by a plurality of supporting members, and a plurality of connecting members forming a trellis structurally configured to support the vegetation of vascular plants growing in the soil containers. The vegetated canopy includes plant- and vine-friendly support structures and may include irrigation and drainage systems, including a ‘smart’ irrigation system powered by solar energy, to support plant and foliage growth and health. The vegetated system provides a shade canopy that may block the sun's rays, lower the surrounding temperature through plant transpiration and ecosystem evaporation, and facilitate ease of use, transportation, and maintenance through automation and modularity.

A soil restoration system including a plurality of dry particles, each particle inoculated with dehumidified biological material including at least one species of cyanobacteria, the cyanobacteria being physically supported by the particles, and the cyanobacteria being activatable by a threshold amount of moisture so that when the cyanobacteria is activated at an application site, the cyanobacteria multiplies to form a biological soil crust capable of facilitating plant seed catchment and vascular plant germination at the application site.

The present invention relates to a composition for increasing the sink strength of sink tissues, containing an inhibitor of the expression or activity of a JULGI protein or a protein having 80% or more homology with the JULGI protein; a method for increasing the sink strength of sink tissues of plants by using the composition; and a plant body of which the sink strength is increased through the method. A plant body is treated with a composition containing an inhibitor of the expression or activity of a JULGI protein or a protein having 80% or more homology with the JULGI protein, according to the present invention, such that the development of the phloem, which is an organ serving the most important role in the movement of photosynthates and eventual storage thereof in sink tissues in starch and sugar forms in plants, can be enhanced so as to increase the sink strength of sink tissues in plants, and thus the productivity of various crops including vascular plants in which JULGI is conservatively expressed can be promoted. In addition, unlike conventional methods, a method for increasing the sink strength of plants, according to the present invention, can overcome conventional limitations by being a method that produces higher value-added crops into which no exogenous gene is introduced and which are free of GMO problems.

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of transplanting of vascular plants, in particular to a fertilizer for transplanting vascular plants and a covering for preparing the fertilizer. A transplanting cylinder is provided with an accommodating chamber capable of accommodating culture soil and roots of the vascular plants, and the transplanting cylinder is of a rotary structure; the transplanting cover covers the upper opening of the accommodating chamber in an openable and closable manner, is provided with a penetrating hole through which the neck of the vascular plant penetrates, and is of a rotary structure; both the transplanting cylinder and the transplanting cover are prepared by crushing, fermenting, airing and pressing crop straws in sequence. The embodiment of the invention has the beneficial effects that the fertilizer can be degraded quickly (for example, two years) to serve as a fertilizer, the extension of tree roots to the surrounding and underground is not influenced, and the fertilizer is not needed any more wen the tree grows up; the structure is simple, and mounting and dismounting are convenient; and the survival rate of transplanting is high, especially the survival rate of woody plants transplanted on mountaintops and upslopes is extremely high, and the fertilizer is resistant to wind, freeze-proof, warm-keeping, moisture-preserving and breathable.

Compositions and methods for systemic delivery of at least one cargo in a vascular plant. Compositions may include at least one cargo delivery particle, having a core and a shell; and at least one cargo disposed on the shell. The core may include at least one micronutrient. The shell may include a coating material. The at least one cargo delivery particle may have a size of less than about 10 nanometers. Methods may include administering an effective amount of the compositions to a plant.