A plant cultivating apparatus includes a body that defines a cultivation chamber, a cultivation bed disposed on the cultivation chamber and configured to move relative to the body, a nutrient storage configured to store nutrient solution, a pipe configured to supply the nutrient solution to the cultivation bed, a bed checker configured to detect movement of the cultivation bed, a level checker configured to detect a level of nutrient solution in the cultivation bed, and a controller configured to receive a signal from the bed checker and the level checker and to adjust the nutrient solution supplied to the cultivation bed. The cultivation bed includes a signal connector that is disposed on one surface of the cultivation bed corresponding to the bed checker and the level checker and that is selectively connected to the bed checker and the level checker according to whether to move the cultivation bed.

The present disclosure provides non-intergeneric remodeled microbes that are able to fix atmospheric nitrogen and deliver such to plants in a targeted, efficient, and environmentally sustainable manner. The utilization of the taught microbial products will enable farmers to realize more productive and predictable crop yields without the nutrient degradation, leaching, or toxic runoff associated with traditional synthetically derived nitrogen fertilizer, by mitigating or eliminating the need for exogenous nitrogen-containing fertilizers. The remodeled microbes have unique colonization and nitrogen fixation abilities, which enable the microbes to deliver nitrogen to a cereal plant in a spatially targeted (e.g. rhizospheric) and temporally targeted (e.g. during advantageous stages of plants life cycle) manner. The microbes are able to replace the standard agricultural practice of sidedressing and enable a more environmentally sustainable form of farming. The present disclosure also provides methods of using non-intergeneric remodeled microbes, for example, to fix atmospheric nitrogen by reducing or eliminating the need for exogenous nitrogen-containing fertilizers, to increase yield, and to reduce infield variability in the yield.

The present disclosure relates a plant cultivation apparatus and a water supply control method thereof. The plant cultivation apparatus may perform water supply, lighting, dehumidification and the like to cultivate a plant according to a cultivation condition corresponding to a cultivation stage and a type of the plant provided in a cultivation room.

A plant cultivation apparatus may include a cabinet including a cultivation room in which a plurality of beds are accommodated and plants are grown, a residual water detection sensor configured to detect whether residual water of feed water supplied to the plurality of beds is present, a water supply module provided in the cultivation room to supply feed water to the plurality of beds, and a controller configured to perform a water supply process when a specified water supply cycle for the plurality of beds is reached, determine whether water is present in the plurality of beds using the residual water detection sensor when the water supply process is performed, and sequentially perform the water supply operation to one or more beds in which no water is present, among the beds, wherein the water supply operation is an operation of supplying water of a predetermined watering amount to the bed in which no water is present, counting a number of times of water supply for the bed, and waiting for a water supply delay time.

Proposed is a pod and a plant cultivation apparatus having the pod of the present disclosure. In the pod, cultivation preparation is completed simply by removing a package that covers an upper portion of a container constituting the pod and seating the pod on the plant cultivation apparatus. Accordingly, even a user who does not have background knowledge of plant cultivation easily cultivate plants.

An indoor gardening appliance includes a grow module positioned within a grow chamber for receiving one or more plant pods. The indoor gardening system includes a sealed system and an air circulation system for conditioning air within the grow chamber, a hydration system for selectively hydrating plants, and a lighting system for providing growth lighting. A controller is configured to detect a vacation condition corresponding to a period of decreased usage of the indoor gardening appliance, e.g., based on a user command or period of inactivity, and adjust at least one operating parameter of the indoor gardening appliance in response to detecting the vacation condition, e.g., to reduce energy consumption, conserve water, and slow plant growth.

An improved solvent system for the formulation and application of N-alkyl thiophosphoric triamide urease inhibitors. These formulations provide safety and performance benefits relative to existing alternatives and enable storage, transport and subsequent coating or blending with urea based or organic based fertilizers. These formulations are comprised primarily of environmentally friendly aprotic and protic solvents (particularly dimethyl sulfoxide and alcohols/polyols) to stabilize the urease inhibitor.

The invention provides a planter arrangement for hydroponics. The planter arrangement includes a plurality of plant containers arranged side by side, circumferentially about a central axis to define a circular configuration of plant containers. The invention further provides a vertical planter which includes at least two planter arrangements which are stacked in a vertical series such that outlets of plant containers in an upper planter arrangement direct liquid into inlets of plant containers in a lower planter arrangement.

The invention relates to a solid, particulate, urea-based blend composition comprising a urea-based compound in particulate form, a component comprising an ammonium source in particulate form, a urease inhibitor of the type phosphoric triamide, an alkaline or alkaline-forming inorganic or organic compound that is able to interact with the component comprising an ammonium source in particulate form, selected from the group consisting of metal oxides, metal carbamates, metal hydroxides, metal acetates and any mixtures thereof, or from the group of organic bases consisting of ammonia, amines, amides, adenines, amidines, guanidines, anilines, carbamates, thiazoles, triazoles, pyridines; imidazoles, benzimidazoles, histidines, phosphazenes, and any mixture thereof, wherein the urea-based blend composition further comprises a cation source, different from the alkaline or alkaline-forming inorganic or organic compound, comprising a cation selected from the group consisting of Fe.sup.2+, Fe.sup.3+, Mn.sup.2+, Zn.sup.2+, Cu.sup.+, Cu.sup.2+, Ni.sup.2+, Ag.sup.+, Pt.sup.2+, Ru.sup.2+, Co.sup.3+ and Cr.sup.3+.

This present disclosure relates to a solid, particulate, urea ammonium sulphate-based composition, further comprising one or more alkaline or alkaline-forming inorganic or organic compounds that are able to interact with ammonium sulphate, a urease inhibitor of the type phosphoric triamide, and a cation source comprising a cation selected from the group consisting of Fe.sup.2+, Fe.sup.3+, Mn.sup.2+, Zn.sup.2+, Cu.sup.+, Cu.sup.2+, Ni.sup.2+, Ag.sup.+, Pt.sup.2+, Ru.sup.2+, Co.sup.3+ and Cr.sup.3+. The invention further relates to a method for the manufacture of a solid, particulate urea ammonium sulphate-based composition comprising urea, ammonium sulphate, a urease inhibitor of the type phosphoric triamide, in particular N-(n-butyl) thiophosphoric triamide (nBTPT), one or more alkaline or alkaline-forming inorganic or organic compounds and a cation source. The product is in particular suitable for use as a fertilizer.