Materials and methods for improving plant traits and for providing plant benefits are provided. In some embodiments, the materials, and methods employing the same, can comprise endophytes.

Disclosed are methods of improving germination rates of plants/crops, as well as preventing or arresting water evaporation loss from targeted soil areas, which allows for improved water usage efficiency by crops, plants, grasses, vegetation, etc.

Systems and methods for autonomous crop maintenance and seedline tracking in agricultural environments. The methods involve determining crop density within a field, generating kernel density estimations, and identifying seedline locations by analyzing local minima in crop density and their persistence. Virtual bands are generated around the seedlines to focus maintenance efforts, such as weeding or thinning, on these areas while ignoring out-of-band regions.

A method of cultivating plants includes suspending a plant, where step of suspending includes freely hanging the plant by a top portion of a stem and where a root portion freely hangs from the stem in a substantially enclosed root compartment in the absence of growth medium, providing water with nutrients and/or oxygen to the root portion, lowering the plant after growth by re suspending of the plant by a newly grown portion of the stem above the top portion of the stem, and where, after the step of lowering, a bottom portion of the stem becomes freely hanging in the root compartment, to allow new roots to grow on the bottom portion of the stem in the root compartment, pruning the root portion at least partially at a bottom end thereof, and repeating the steps of lowering and root pruning after each time the plant has been allowed to grow.

An expandable modular planting system (EMPS) for plant growing, the system comprising a garden bed having at least one wall panel for containing soil that is configured to grow at least one plant therein; and a weight support trellis module connected to the garden bed, wherein the weight support trellis module supports at least 30% of the at least one plant.

An expandable modular planting system (EMPS) for plant growing, the system comprising a garden bed having at least one wall panel for containing soil that is configured to grow at least one plant therein; and a weight support trellis module connected to the garden bed, wherein the weight support trellis module supports at least 30% of the at least one plant.

The present invention relates to a plant regeneration medium composition and a plant regeneration method using same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a plant regeneration medium composition using a medium composition containing Shungite as an active ingredient to increase the rates of shoot organogenesis and root organogenesis, thereby shortening the time required for organogenesis using a plant explant and improving the efficiency of ontogeny, and to a plant regeneration method using same.

The present disclosure relates to a strawberry growth method and system using upper and lower strawberry growth modules wherein the most superior runner is selected from the mother strawberry plant on the upper level and then is guided into the lower level and the most superior runner becomes a new superior mother strawberry plant, thereby to produce improved fruits quality and yield.

The present invention relates to a method for pruning pepper plants. In particular, pepper plants are pruned to a specific branch-architecture, whereby seed yield is increased.

Growing media for growing a grape variety in a controlled indoor environment, such as a greenhouse, where the growing media includes soil, at least one soil enhancer, which assists the soil in retaining nutrients and water and compost.