Abstract: The present invention relates to bacteria conferring bioprotection and/or biofertilizer properties to plants into which they are inoculated. More particularly, the present invention relates to endophyte strains of Paenibacillus sp., plants infected with such strains and related methods.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for automated hyperspectral vegetation index (VI) determination, including: accessing measured spectra and respective measured ground truth values of a selected vegetation trait; accessing a library of VI models, each model including a relationship defining an index value for the vegetation trait by mathematically combining spectral measurement values at a plurality of wavebands; selecting a VI model from the library; generating a hyperparameter for each of the spectral measurement values of the selected model, the hyperparameter including a selected waveband for each of the plurality of model wavebands; evaluating the selected model with the selected wavebands with an objective function score; a model parameter tuning step using an optimizer to select the waveband for each of the at least two wavebands based on sequential model-based optimization (SMBO); and repeating the model selection, generation, evaluation and tuning steps for a plurality of iterations.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel endophytes of plants of the Cannabaceae family, particularly biofertilizer Enterobacter sp. endophytes, and also to plants and parts thereof infected therewith, and related methods, including methods for conferring biofertilization to plants and for selecting a biofertilizer endophyte of a plant of the Cannabaceae family.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel endophytes of plants of the Cannabaceae family, particularly bioprotective Pseudomonas sp. endophytes, and also to plants and parts thereof infected therewith, and related methods, including methods for conferring bioprotection to plants and for selecting a bioprotectant endophyte of a plant of the Cannabaceae family.

Abstract: The present invention relates to endophytes, in particular endophytes associated with plants of the Brachiaria-Urochloa species complex, plants infected with the endophytes, products produced by the endophytes, and related methods.

Abstract: Methods for image-based remote sensing of crop plants include: acquiring images of the crop plants from a camera flown over the crop by an unmanned/uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV); forming an artificial neural network (ANN); and using the trained ANN to identify and/or measure one or more phenotypic characteristics of the crop plants in the images by classification and/or regression; and/or obtaining multispectral images of the crop plants from a multispectral camera flown over the crop by the UAV; mosaicking the multispectral images together; determining crop measurement metrics; crop height model (CHM), crop coverage (CC) and crop volume (CV) representing the crop plants in three dimensions from a fusion of a digital surface model and a digital terrain model; determining various vegetation indices (VIs) based on the multispectral orthomosaic reflectance map; and determining a measurement of dry biomass using CV and fresh biomass using CV×VIs.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an endophyte strain isolated from a plant of the Poaceae family, wherein said endophyte is a strain of Pseudomonas poae which provides bioprotection and/or biofertilizer phenotypes to plants into which it is inoculated. The present invention also plants infected with the endophyte and related methods.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to targeted gene editing constructs, including methods of designing a DNA-recognition moiety for modulation of gene expression in plants, DNA-recognition moieties, gene editing constructs, methods for the modulation of gene expression in plants using gene editing constructs, and plants or regenerable plant cells produced therefrom.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a method for extracting cannabis-derived proteins from cannabis plant material, including the preparation of samples of extracted cannabis-derived proteins for proteomic analysis and methods for analysing a cannabis plant proteome.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to methods useful to the production of cannabis plants, including methods for determining the sex of a cannabis plant, methods for determining the developmental stage of a female cannabis plant inflorescence, methods for monitoring the development of female cannabis plant inflorescence, methods for standardising the harvesting of female cannabis plants, methods for selecting a female cannabis plant for harvest and methods for selecting a hypoallergenic cannabis plant.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for profiling plant endophyte microbiomes, wherein the method provides for identification of endophyte strains that are phylogenetically related to a desired endophyte strain. More particularly, the present invention relates to method for identifying, characterising and/or comparing endophyte strains and to novel endophyte strains selected and/or isolated by the method. The present invention also relates to methods for transferring endophyte strains between plants.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an endophyte strain isolated from a plant of the Poaceae family, wherein said endophyte is a strain of Stenoptrophomonas rhizophila which provides bioprotection and/or biofertilizer phenotypes to plants into which it is inoculated. The present invention also discloses plants infected with the endophyte and related methods.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an endophyte strain isolated from a plant of the Poaceae family, wherein said endophyte is a strain of Xanthomonas sp. which provides bioprotection and/or biofertilizer phenotypes to plants into which it is inoculated. The present invention also discloses plants infected with the endophyte and related methods.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an endophyte strain isolated from a plant of the Poaceae family, wherein said endophyte is a strain of Erwinia gerundensis which provides bioprotection and/or biofertilizer phenotypes to plants into which it is inoculated. The present invention also discloses plants infected with the endophyte and related methods.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a substantially purified or isolated endophyte strain from a plant, wherein said endophyte is a strain of Curtobacterium laccumfaciens and/or Arthrobacter sp., and wherein said endophyte provides improved environmental stress tolerance to plants into which it is inoculated. The present invention also relates to plants infected with the endophytes and related methods.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of determining the terpene profile of cannabis plant material, specifically through use of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Extraction methods include liquid based extraction methods, specifically hexane based liquid extraction methods, and headspace extraction methods, specifically static headspace extraction and headspace solid phase microextraction (HS-SPME). Static headspace and HS-SPME are shown to be better for monoterpene extraction, and hexane based liquid extraction for sesquiterpene extraction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to endophytes, in particular endophytes associated with plants of the Brachiaria-Urochloa species complex, plants infected with the endophytes, products produced by the endophytes, and related methods.

Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids encoding amino acid sequences for the biosynthesis of janthitrem in janthitrem producing endophytes. The present invention also relates to constructs and vectors including such nucleic acids, and related polypeptides, regulatory elements and methods.

Abstract: The present invention relates to determining the chemotype profile of cannabis plant material through determining cannabinoid content of the plant material using near infrared spectroscopy. The invention also involves the training of a classifier to determine the chemotype profile of a cannabis plant from the spectroscopic data.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to an artificial plant seed and to its use for plant propagation, in particular, for the propagation of cannabis plants.