Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Guzmania plant named ‘Flava’, characterized by its compact, upright and outwardly arching growth habit; relatively broad leaves; short to intermediate inflorescences with showy yellow, orange and dark red-colored bracts; and good postproduction longevity.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Echeveria plant named ‘Orion’ that is characterized by grey-green leaves with grey-red margins and tips and a compact habit.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Echeveria plant named ‘Apus’ that is characterized by grey-green leaves with grey-red margins and tips, a compact habit and yellow flowers.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Echeveria plant named ‘Hercules’ that is characterized by grey-green leaves with grey-purple margins and tips and a small overall size.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Echeveria plant named ‘Sagitta’ that is characterized by narrow green leaves with a light green base, a grey-red tip, fine grey-red margins and yellow flowers.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Angelonia plant named ‘Lotrapi’ characterized by its trailing plant habit; freely branching habit; early and freely flowering habit; large dark pink-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Angelonia plant named ‘Anwedgim’ characterized by its compact, upright and outwardly slanting plant habit; freely branching habit; early and freely flowering habit; large white and violet blue-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Angelonia plant named ‘Lowhiblu’ characterized by its compact, upright and outwardly slanting plant habit; freely branching habit; early and freely flowering habit; large white and violet blue-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Angelonia plant named ‘Lotrawhi’ characterized by its trailing plant habit; freely branching habit; early and freely flowering habit; large white-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Angelonia plant named ‘Loblu’ characterized by its compact, upright and outwardly slanting plant habit; freely branching habit; early and freely flowering habit; large violet-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Hypericum×Inodorum, ‘Ruihyg234a’, that is characterized by its compact plant habit suitable for container growing, its medium sized berries that are purple-brown in color and ovate in shape and its compact flowers with a flat aspect.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Hypericum×inodorum, ‘Ruihyg207b’, that is characterized by its compact plant habit suitable for container growing, its medium sized berries that are red in color and oval in shape, and its small sized, light green sepals that are ovate in shape.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Hypericum×inodorum, ‘Ruihyg224a’, that is characterized by its compact plant habit suitable for container growing, its medium sized berries that are light pink in color and oval in shape, and its small sized light green sepals.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Hypericum×inodorum, ‘Ruihyh004c’, that is characterized by its compact plant habit suitable for container growing, its medium sized berries that are creamy white in color and ovate in shape, and its medium sized light green sepals that are ovate in shape.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Hypericum×inodorum, ‘Ruihyh006b’, that is characterized by its compact plant habit suitable for container growing, its medium sized berries that are light orange-pink in color and rounded in shape, and its small sized, light green sepals.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Hypericum plant named ‘Kolmiglow’, characterized by its upright and outwardly spreading plant habit; moderately vigorous growth habit; dark purple-colored developing stems; relatively small leaves that dark green in color with dark purple-colored lower surfaces; freely flowering habit; high fruit density; and glossy dark red-colored fruits.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Lychnis, ‘Lipstick’, characterized by its sturdy and well-branched erect stems up to 45 cm in height, its large flowers that are red in color, its red flowers that are large in comparison to the species, its foliage that is red-purple in color when young and mature to dark green suffused with purple with the purple coloration maintained well into the season, its long-lived habit and its reliable cold hardiness at least to U.S.D.A. Zone 5.

Abstract: A mixing paddle for use in a conventional ice cream maker includes two vertical arms that have outer contact edges that exceed the inner diameter of the freezer bowl in which they are positioned during use. This enables the contact edges to effectively scrape ice cream ingredients from the inner wall of the bowl during use and direct the ingredients toward the center of the bowl. The mixing paddle also comprises two cross-members that have pin-wheel style shapes that move ice cream ingredients vertically during use. The combined effect of the vertical arms and the cross-members optimally and uniformly mixes the ice cream ingredients during use and ensures efficient cooling.

Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a memory cell, a bit line, a sense amplifier operating between a first voltage and a second voltage higher than the first voltage, a transfer control circuit including a transfer transistor, and a write circuit writing data into the memory cell through the bit line based on the first voltage and a third voltage. The sense amplifier receives and amplifiers the signal voltage at a sense node when the transfer transistor controls the connection between the bit line and the sense node in response to a transfer control voltage. The third voltage is set to a voltage lower than the second voltage and higher than the transfer control voltage, and the sense node is set to a voltage higher than the transfer control voltage in an initial period of a read operation before the data of the memory cell is read out to the bit line.

Abstract: The invention relates to a roller cylinder (1) comprising band rings (6) which are attached to a center axis (17, 17a, 17b). The roller cylinder comprises at least two band ring segments (14, 14a, 14b) consisting of an outer, substantially circular portion (15), an inner portion (16) and a radial portion (18) extending substantially radially between the inner and outer portions, said inner portions of the band ring segments being fixed by means of fastening means, such as screws (19, 20, 19a, 20a, 21a, 19b, 20b, 21b), to the center axis and abut the center axis at least at the attachment points of the fastening means between the inner portion of the band ring segments and the center axis. The invention also relates to a band ring segment included in a roller cylinder provided with band rings.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is provided for removing a retained member from a rotary head assembly configured for attachment to a rotary power source.

Abstract: A drive system of a battery powered riding lawn mower is provided. The drive system may include a battery system mountable to a frame, an electric drive motor and a cutting deck. The electric drive motor may be powered by the battery system and coupled with an axle and a wheel such that when the electric drive motor is powered, the electric drive motor is configured to provide rotation force to the wheel. The cutting deck maybe attached to the frame and powered by the battery system. The cutting deck may include at least one electric blade motor separate from the electric drive motor and configured to rotate at least one cutting blade rotatably mounted in the cutting deck.

Abstract: A boom deck and removable side deck mowing tractor device facilitates efficient conversion between use of the boom deck and the side deck. The device includes a boom arm coupled to and extendable from a tractor. A boom deck is coupled to the boom arm and a first mowing blade is coupled to the boom deck wherein the boom arm, the boom deck, and the first mowing blade define a boom mower. A side deck is removably coupled to a lateral side of the tractor. A second mowing blade is coupled to the side deck wherein the side deck and the second mowing blade define a side mower. A control mechanism is coupled to the tractor and selectively couplable to each of the boom mower and the side mower wherein the control mechanism controls a selectable one of the side mower and the boom mower.

Abstract: A corn header has a row unit frame and an auger sweeping ears of corn toward a center of the corn header. A corn row divider assembly has a snout and gatherer hood hingeably coupled to, and aft of, the snout. An aft end of the gatherer hood extends beneath and to the rear of the fore end of the auger in an operational configuration of the divider assembly.

Abstract: A helical-acting snap roll for a harvesting header having straight flutes which are free of a formed twist. The snap roll includes a plurality of elongated straight flutes that extend substantially the entire length of the snap roll but that are parallel misaligned with a central axis of rotation of the snap roll. A pair of opposing and counter-rotating snap rolls of the present invention chops and pulls crop stalks passing therebetween downward toward the ground while also creating a helical action such that the crop stalks are conveyed rearward. In one embodiment, at least a pair of straight portions acting as flutes are partially parallel aligned with one another along the length and one side of each snap roll.

Abstract: A fork-type dual bale lift has both longitudinal and machinery pivots. A frame structure is mounted on a vertically swinging load support. A boom member is coupled to the frame structure through a pair of bearings and is pivotal about the longitudinal machine axis. At the ends of the boom member are bale supports that are operative to pierce and support a large bale for lifting and transport. A hydraulic cylinder is used to control the pivotal orientation of the boom about the longitudinal machine axis, and thereby allow an operator to selective raise one of the two bale supports while simultaneously lowering the other of the two bale supports. At the extremes of boom rotation, the lower of the two bale supports additionally engages with the frame structure to provide increased strength and stability during loading and unloading, and to reduce stress on the bearings during transport.

Abstract: An agricultural combine has a threshing assembly for threshing a crop to produce chaff and grain, a cleaning assembly for removing the chaff from the grain, and a control system. The threshing assembly and the cleaning assembly operate at threshing and cleaning settings, respectively, for tending to produce a balance between a threshing load applied across the threshing assembly and a cleaning load applied across the cleaning assembly that tends to have a favorable influence on grain loss. The control system is for sensing an imbalance between the threshing load and the cleaning load tending to have an unfavorable influence on grain loss, and for concurrently adjusting the threshing and cleaning settings of the threshing and cleaning assemblies, respectively, for tending to convert the imbalance between the threshing and cleaning loads to a balance between the threshing and cleaning loads tending to have a favorable influence on grain loss.

Abstract: A powered square baler is operable to form a bale by compressing loose material. The powered square baler broadly includes a chassis, a plunger assembly, and a plunger drive. The chassis includes a baler frame that presents a baling chamber to receive the loose material. The plunger assembly includes a reciprocating plunger head and a pair of connecting arms attached to the plunger head. The reciprocating plunger head is slidably mounted relative to the frame and is operable to reciprocate into and out of the chamber and apply a compressive force to the loose material. The plunger drive includes a pair of planetary gear trains and a common drive shaft that powers both of the gear trains, with each gear train drivingly connected to a corresponding one of the connecting arms to cooperatively power the plunger assembly.

Abstract: A vertical gardening system includes at least one sheet of geosynthetic material hung generally vertically, and forming vertical channels extending top to bottom of the sheet on a rear side and including a plurality of small upwardly-open individual pockets on a front side and growing medium on both sides of the at least one sheet and located in both the channels and the pockets. A related method includes providing a portable stand and supporting on the stand a sheet with vertical channels and pockets as defined above, growing plants in the pockets with their roots extending into the channels, and moving the stand to promote plant growth, including one of moving the stand to orient the plants toward sunlight during daylight, or moving the stand between a first location of optimal sunlight and a second location of optimal protection against freezing.

Abstract: The present invention provides apomictic soybean varieties and methods of making the same.

Abstract: A new and distinct Guzmania hybrid named ‘FALL’ characterized by solid growth habit; funnel-form rosette plant, measuring about 20-25 cm in height (above the pot when flowering); numerous, green color foliage (measuring about 25-30 cm length and about 3-3.5 cm in width) Superior floral bract production; bracts are red-purple in color (closest to RHS 59A) with a yellow colored tip at the top primary bracts (closest to RHS 13A), singular head inflorescence, measuring about 8 cm in height and about 18 cm in diameter; and long-lasting habit.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of Cucumis melo, in particular to a new variety of Cucumus melo reticulatus designated NUN 26181 MEM, plants, seeds and melon fruits.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH430153. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH430153, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH430153 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH430153.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH994532. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH994532, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH994532 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH994532.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH567174. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH567174, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH567174 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH567174.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH514800. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH514800, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH514800 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH514800.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH031136. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH031136, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH031136 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH031136.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH091735. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH091735, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH091735 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH091735.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH375393. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH375393, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH375393 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH375393.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola cultivar, designated CL102407R. Also included are seeds of canola inbred CL102407R, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola CL102407R and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola CL102407R with itself or another canola genotype, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola CL102407R.

Abstract: A novel maize variety designated PH1DBV and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1DBV with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1DBV through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH1DBV or a locus conversion of PH1DBV with another maize variety.

Abstract: A novel maize variety designated PH1D7W and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1D7W with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1D7W through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH1D7W or a locus conversion of PH1D7W with another maize variety.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH856863. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH856863, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH856863 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH856863.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH030486. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH030486, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH030486 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH030486.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH768004. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH768004, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH768004 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH768004.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH338635. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH338635, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH338635 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH338635.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH558899. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH558899, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH558899 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH558899.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH813276. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH813276, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH813276 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH813276.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH225896. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH225896, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH225896 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH225896.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH369747. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH369747, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH369747 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH369747.