A system for autonomous crop monitoring, the system comprising a mobile platform having one or a plurality of imaging devices configured to autonomously travel a path to scan a plurality of inspection regions in a field of crop and obtain images of the inspection regions; and a processor configured to analyze the acquired images to detect an agricultural condition that requires attention (ACRA) and determine the location of that ACRA.

A weed growth suppression device, including a first spike assembly to be inserted at least partially into a surface, a second spike assembly to be inserted at least partially into the surface, and a rod to connect the first spike assembly to the second spike assembly.

The present invention relates to a slurry comprising water, bentonite, and a compound selected from fertilizer, a plant growth regulator, a fungicide and an insecticide. The present invention also relates to an agricultural product comprising a slurry comprising water and bentonite, and a plant propagative material. Methods of using the bentonite to enhance a growth-related trait, such as drought tolerance, in a plant are also described.

The present invention relates to a slurry comprising water, bentonite, and a compound selected from fertilizer, a plant growth regulator, a fungicide and an insecticide. The present invention also relates to an agricultural product comprising a slurry comprising water and bentonite, and a plant propagative material. Methods of using the bentonite to enhance a growth-related trait, such as drought tolerance, in a plant are also described.

The use of Pyemotes zhonghuajia for preparing biological control agents of Diaphorina citri. The use of Pyemotes zhonghuajia for preparing agents for controlling Diaphorina citri. By employing Pyemotes zhonghuajia to control Diaphorina citri, it is a biological control method which can avoid the problems caused by chemical pesticides such as environmental pollution, health risk and increased pest resistance to the pesticides.

The present invention relates to the use of a herbicide-tolerant protein, wherein the method for controlling weeds comprises applying a herbicide containing an effective dose of tribenuron-methyl to a plant growth environment where at least one transgenic plant is present, wherein the transgenic plant comprises a nucleotide sequence encoding a thifensulfuron hydrolase in its genome, and compared to other plants without the nucleotide sequence encoding the hydrolase, the transgenic plant has reduced plant damage and/or an increased plant yield. The present invention discloses for the first time that a thifensulfuron hydrolase can show a high tolerance to a tribenuron-methyl herbicide, plants containing a nucleotide sequence encoding the thifensulfuron hydrolase are strongly tolerant to the tribenuron-methyl herbicide and can at least tolerate 1-fold field concentration, and thus the hydrolase has broad application prospects in plants.

The application of the aqueous emulsion containing higher fatty alcohol of the present disclosure on rice and wheat can significantly affect the transcription levels of genes related to the phenylpropanoid metabolic pathways in rice and wheat, thereby increasing the lignin content of rice and wheat, and increasing the lodging resistance of rice and wheat. In practical agricultural production, the application of the aqueous emulsion containing higher fatty alcohol of the present disclosure can improve the rust resistance, insect resistance, lodging resistance and storage ability of rice and wheat, thereby improving the quality and yield of rice and wheat.

Disclosed is a use of a higher fatty alcohol in preparing a preparation for improving transcription levels of genes associated with synthesis pathways of jasmonic acid, cutin, and wax of corn plants. By using a water emulsion containing the higher fatty alcohol, the synthesis pathways of the cutin, the wax, and the jasmonic acid in metabolic pathways of the corn plants are affected, rust disease resistance, pest resistance, and drought resistance of the corn plants can be effectively improved, and a yield of the corn plants is increased.

The present invention relates to hail warning and prevention. An automated method of wide-ranging anti-hail protection including reception of sky proper radiothermal emission in M sites, its comparison with corresponding thresholds, generation command signals to detonate combustible gas and to direct shock waves upwardly to the sky, generation and transmission alert signals, reception of transmitted alert signals in each M sites, comparison with proper code-signals of that site and setting alert operational mode of sonic generator. An automated network of anti-hail protection including M hail preventing sonic set in M sites of anti-hail protection area any of which comprises an antenna, a radiometric receiver, a controlled compensation device, a controlled multi-channel threshold system, a warner a transmitter, a receiver, a code-signal comparison device, a first controlling switcher, a controlled single-channel thresholder and a second controlling switcher. It is enhanced operation efficiency and is automated exploitation of an anti-hail protection network.

The present invention relates to hail warning and prevention. An automated method of wide-ranging anti-hail protection including reception of sky proper radiothermal emission in M sites, its comparison with corresponding thresholds, generation command signals to detonate combustible gas and to direct shock waves upwardly to the sky, generation and transmission alert signals, reception of transmitted alert signals in each M sites, comparison with proper code-signals of that site and setting alert operational mode of sonic generator. An automated network of anti-hail protection including M hail preventing sonic set in M sites of anti-hail protection area any of which comprises an antenna, a radiometric receiver, a controlled compensation device, a controlled multi-channel threshold system, a warner a transmitter, a receiver, a code-signal comparison device, a first controlling switcher, a controlled single-channel thresholder and a second controlling switcher. It is enhanced operation efficiency and is automated exploitation of an anti-hail protection network.