A protection device segregates burrowing animals from plants. The protection device comprises a thread knitted into a boundary layer that is sealed with a staple. A user can insert a plant in a root ball earth into the protection device and insert the protection device into a hole in earth. The thread is flexible and does not release iron into the earth. The boundary layer prevents a burrowing animal from entering into the root ball earth and consuming roots of the plant. In some embodiments, the thread is a tubular non-woven stainless steel thread which is knitted in order to prevent existence of a seam. The thread allows the roots of the plant to grow out of the protection device allowing the plant to continue to grow, notwithstanding the boundary layer created by the thread.

This disclosure relates to agricultural canopies used primarily to control the amount of light and/or moisture and/or heat reaching growing plants within the canopy footprint. More specifically, it relates to mechanisms for pulling a flexible canopy over a support structure and then for removing the canopy to uncover the structure and the plants below. The mechanisms include an arm mounted rotationally on a base. When the arm is rotated in one direction the canopy is pulled over the support structure and when the arm is rotated in the other direction the canopy is pulled off the support structure.

The bush and shrub protective cover is a structure that is adapted to protect landscaping against physical injury from harsh weather conditions including, but not limited to snow, ice, heavy rain, hail, and high winds. The bush and shrub protective cover comprises a plurality of legs, a top cap, and a plurality of sides. The plurality of legs form the base upon which the bush and shrub protective cover is built. The plurality of legs support the top cap and the plurality of sides. The top cap has holes that allow water to flow through the top cap to the protected plants. The top cap is also formed with grooves to route excess water away from the protected plants. Each of the plurality of sides is formed with a plurality of wind flaps to control air flow through the bush and shrub protective cover.

A weed barrier/moisture retention device for covering soil of a bagged or potted plant. The cover features a disc of flexible weed barrier fabric having an outside perimeter edge situated at a radial distance from a center point of said fabric. A slit the fabric emanates outwardly away from the center point and intersects with the outside perimeter edge. Matable fastening elements are secured to the fabric at slit-adjacent edge regions thereof, and are selectively fastenable to one another in order to cooperatively close off the slit. In use, the slit of the fabric is slipped around a stalk of a bagged or plotted plant from one side thereof, and the fastening elements are coupled together at an opposing side of the stalk, thus forming a closed loop that provides a full 360-degree span of soil coverage around the stalk.

Disclosed is a method for overwintering and cold resistance of grapevines, the vines are covered with a biological solidification layer, and the method includes the following steps: placing stems of the vines in rows on a ground, and digging soil between the rows to cover the vines and stems in the rows to form a soil-covered layer; and a thickness of the soil-covered layer is such that a distance from the stems to a top of the soil-covered layer is 50-100 mm; and spraying biological solidification solution onto the soil-covered layer to form the biological solidification layer, where composition and concentration of the biological solidification solution are as follows: 0.5-2 g/L of bean flour, 0.2-1 g/L of xanthan gum, 0.2-1 g/L of cellulose, 0.5-2 g/L of urea and 0.5-2 g/L of calcium chloride. The method is safe, reliable, time-saving, and easy to operate for overwintering of vines.

The present invention relates to a system that allows the manufacturing and/or continuous automated production of at least one film, cover, mantle and/or mesh made of polyethylene, plastic material, among other materials, which comprises in an integrated manner at least one fluid distribution line, so that the manufactured product allows to deploy both component simultaneously, without the need to be deployed on a field separately, which comprises at least one device for continuous and automatic feeding of the film, layer, mat and/or cover made of polyethylene and/or plastic (2), at least one device for continuous and automatic feeding of at least one element for delivery, distribution and/or removal of fluid (3), preferably at least one irrigation line, at least one automatic and continuous feeding device of at least one sleeve (4), at least one thermofusion device (5), and at least one control system.

The present invention relates to an automatic integrated continuous procedure for the one-piece production and manufacturing of at least one layer, cover, mat and/or film of polyethylene and/or plastic material attached, fastened and/or integrated with at least one element for the delivery, distribution and/or removal of fluid, comprising the steps of feeding a film, layer, cover and/or mat of polyethylene and/or plastic unfolded toward a thermofusion unit comprising drag idlers whereby the film, layer, mat and/or cover passes, where high-temperature silicone wheels are arranged above said drag idlers, so that when they touch said idlers together they become the dragging means of the film, layer, cover and/or mat which are arranged between said idlers and silicone wheels, feeding a film sleeve to be arranged and/or placed over the irrigation line already deployed over the film, layer, cover and/or mat arranged between said idlers and silicone wheels, and thermofusing the peripheral edges of said film sleeve that are arranged or placed over the film, layer, cover and/or mat, producing the coupling of the film sleeve with the film, layer, cover and/or mat fusing them together in conjunction with the pressure produced by the silicone wheels welding the two plastics, ensuring that the element for the delivery, distribution and/or removal of fluid is not thermofused with the fused plastics, remaining attached, fastened and/or arranged between the film sleeve and the film, layer, cover and/or mat.

A pest control system includes a plurality of first light sources configured to emit light with a first wavelength to a first region of a cultivation region in which crops are cultivated, to suppress damage to the crops caused by harmful insects, and one or more second light sources configured to emit light with a second wavelength to gather the harmful insects in a second region that is a part of the cultivation region and smaller than the first region.

A pest control system includes a plurality of first light sources configured to emit light with a first wavelength to a first region of a cultivation region in which crops are cultivated, to suppress damage to the crops caused by harmful insects, and one or more second light sources configured to emit light with a second wavelength to gather the harmful insects in a second region that is a part of the cultivation region and smaller than the first region.

The present invention discloses an endophytic fungal strain Magnaporthaceae sp. M-B927 and an application thereof, and belongs to the technical filed of microbial applications. The deposit number of the endophytic fungal strain M-B927 is CCTCC M 2021503, and the scientific name thereof is Magnaporthaceae sp. The endophytic fungal strain M-B927 can enhance the resistance of rice against seedling leaf blast with a control efficiency of 73.06% and a disease index reduced by 52.22. Popularization and application of the biological control efficiency of the endophytic fungus M-B927 against seedling leaf blast in rice has great potential in the field of agriculture.