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Eco-Friendly, Sustainable, Lightweight, Porous Cellulose Sponge for Crop Growth
This technology uses ‘cellulose sponges’ that can be used to grow pick-and-eat crops without soil. The inventors have tested diverse cellulose derivatives and have determined the best performers. Hydroxyethyl methylcellulose was shown in testing to have a higher water-retention property, higher durability, low density and malleability, and...
Published: 4/23/2024
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Inventor(s): Minkyu Kim, Zhu Zhao, Samuel Kim
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture, Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Crop Improvement, Technology Classifications > Energy, Cleantech & Environmental
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Polar Wall for Indoor Farming: Low-Cost Cooling for Indoor Farms
This invention is a novel, low-cost system designed for cooling the ambient air inside an indoor farm, such as a greenhouse, vertical farm, and/or module-type farm. It consists of a freezer box—ideally solar powered—that freezes reusable ice packs arranged in different configurations within the box. The freezer may be attached to a wall...
Published: 2/1/2024
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Inventor(s): Joel Cuello, Justin Eckert, Roxcella Reas, Ryan Lefers
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture, Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Agricultural Engineering, Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Crop Improvement
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Solid Set Flood Irrigation
This invention is a solid-set irrigation bubbler head sprinkler system designed to replace existing low-output sprinkler heads commonly used in agricultural fields. The design of the system directs the water downward to guide it toward the soil while simultaneously controlling the flow to prevent soil erosion. This innovation allows for more precise...
Published: 2/26/2024
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Inventor(s): Robert Masson, Hector Munoz, Don Dinwiddie, Ethan Orr
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Crop Improvement, Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture, Technology Classifications > Energy, Cleantech & Environmental > Water Resource Efficiency
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Method to Predict, Evaluate and Map Soil Microbial Function for Broad Geographical Regions using Omics and Machine Learning
This invention is a method for predicting and geographically mapping the functional composition of soil microbial communities across a large geographical area and with diverse environments using machine learning. The resulting information is relevant to evaluating soil carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycling.
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Microbial-mediated soil organic...
Published: 5/13/2024
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Inventor(s): Yang Song, Changpeng Fan
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Crop Improvement, Technology Classifications > Energy, Cleantech & Environmental > Renewable Energy > Biofuels, Technology Classifications > Software & Information Technology > Bioinformatics, Technology Classifications > Software & Information Technology > Databases & Data Mining
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High Protein Soybean Mutants Obtained Through Mutagenesis
This technology is a method to increase protein content in soybeans using fast neutron mutagenesis. Researchers investigated the effects on soybean seed composition and gene expression encountered in transgenically modified and mutagenized crops and found several lines that germinated well, had no apparent agronomic issues, and continually produced...
Published: 1/22/2024
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Inventor(s): Monica Schmidt, Eliot Herman
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Crop Improvement, Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Plant Breeds > Plants-GMO, Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Plant Breeds
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Virus Inducible Switch
This invention describes a novel platform to control expression of specific plant genes with viruses.
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When many plants are challenged with a viral infection, one of the primary defense mechanisms they have evolved is to deploy the use of plant RNA silencing pathways to control gene expression. Likewise, viruses have co-evolved to evade...
Published: 4/3/2023
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Inventor(s): Judith Brown, Cory Keith, Mark Beilstein
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Crop Improvement, Technology Classifications > Life Sciences > RNAi/siRNA, Technology Classifications > Research Tools > Reagents
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The BORING (BurrOwing & Regenerative IN-Ground) Vertical Farm for the Moon, Mars and Beyond
This technology is a vertical farm designed specifically for the controlled-environment crop and food production function of a bioregenerative space life support system. It would enable long-duration crewed missions on the Moon, Mars, and beyond while mitigating the impacts of extreme extraterrestrial environments.
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Vertical farming is...
Published: 4/3/2023
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Inventor(s): Joel Cuello, Matteo Pietrobelli, Mackenze McAleer
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Agricultural Engineering, Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Crop Improvement
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An Alternative Mode of RNA Interference Triggered through Feeding Synthetic RNAs that are Processed into piRNAs
This invention describes a new method of the widely-used RNA interference technique with potential clinical and research applications.
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RNA interference is a commonly used method to knockdown or “silence” genes. This is typically done using small interfering RNA (siRNA) probes designed with specificity to bind and tag certain...
Published: 5/22/2023
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Inventor(s): Judith Brown, Mosharrof Hossain Mondal, Jorge Rafael Paredes Montero, Alex Flynt
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture, Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Crop Improvement, Technology Classifications > Life Sciences > RNAi/siRNA, Technology Classifications > Life Sciences > Diagnostics, Technology Classifications > Life Sciences > Therapeutics
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Vip3-Resistant Helicoverpa Zea
This technology is a genetically diverse strain of corn earworm that has been selected over multi-generations to be resistant to Vip3 (a Bt protein produced by transgenic crops). It is a tool used for screening/selecting candidate proteins to determine if they overcome resistance.
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A rapidly expanding global population, coupled with limited...
Published: 4/3/2023
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Inventor(s): Bruce Tabashnik, Yves Carriere
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Crop Improvement, Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Entomology
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Elimination of Aflatoxin via Aflatoxin-Degrading Enzyme Expression in Crops
This technology involves the expression of an aflatoxin-degrading enzyme in maize kernels. The enzyme was engineered to target the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and become expressed using an embryo-specific promoter in the transgenic maize. It can be used in combination with an RNAi suppression method, HIGS, to protect maize during pre-harvest conditions.
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It...
Published: 10/5/2023
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Inventor(s): Monica Schmidt
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Crop Improvement, Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Plant Storage
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