Abstract: A new cultivar of Chamaecyparis plant named ‘Minta’ that is characterized by its fine textured foliage, its foliage that is bluish green (minty green) in color, particularly when grown in warm temperatures, and its compact and uniformly globular plant habit.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of x Chitalpa plant named ‘NCXC1’ is disclosed, characterized by large inflorescences with vibrant purple flowers, and small tree habits. The new variety is an x Chitalpa, typically produced as an outdoor ornamental plant.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Ligustrum plant named ‘NCLJ1’ is disclosed, characterized rounded upright habit, white flowers, glossy evergreen foliage, and no apparent female fertility. The new variety is a Ligustrum, typically produced as an outdoor ornamental plant.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Clematis plant named ‘Zo18179’ that is characterized by its floriferous and long blooming habit; blooming in May to June and July to August in The Netherlands, its flowers that appear from the base to the top of the plant, its flowers that are violet in color with a purple axillary central band on each tepal, and its dark purple anthers.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Mandevilla plant named ‘MAN222903’, characterized by its relatively compact, upright to spreading and vining plant habit; vigorous growth habit; glossy dark green-colored leaves; early and freely flowering habit; and purplish red-colored flowers.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Tradescantia plant named ‘JS BRAINSTORM’ is disclosed, characterized by abundant violet-purple flowers, blooming from June to November. Grass-like foliage with curving leaves of bluish-green with a purple hue. The new variety is a Tradescantia, typically used as an ornamental plant.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Baptisia plant of hybrid origin that is named ‘Last Dance’ and is characterized by its narrowly upright plant habit with foliage lacking on the lower half of the stems, its dense foliage (especially towards the tips of the shoots), its flowers that emerge white in color and turn to creamy yellow in color, and its late flowering period (commences and ends late).

Abstract: A new and distinct Cordyline australis plant named ‘TUS020’ is disclosed, characterized by striking green leaves with creamy white margins, fading to pink and red toward the main stem. Foliage retains its coloring year-round. Plants are compact, with round, upright, arching habits. The new cultivar is a Cordyline, typically suited for ornamental container and landscape use.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Echinacea purpurea plant named ‘DWGBO20’ is disclosed, characterized by large, fully double chrysanthemum-like inflorescences composed of ray florets arranged consistently in a dome. Plants are bushy and sturdy with an upright habit. Free and continuous flowering begins in June and continues through September. Echinacea is a popular genus, typically used as container plants or landscape plants.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Lobelia plant named ‘Balspringlav’, characterized by its light lavender-colored flowers having a white eye with reddish-purple markings, medium green-colored foliage, and moderately vigorous, compact, upright-mounded, is disclosed.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Scabiosa plant named ‘SCBE01’ is disclosed, characterized by floriferous plants with very low, compact habits, and vigorous growth. The new variety is a Scabiosa, suitable for outdoor garden and container uses.

Abstract: A new and distinct Jamesbrittenia plant named ‘ja19 50-008’, characterized by its upright to outwardly spreading and mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit and rapid growth rate; freely branching habit; dense and bushy plant form; early and freely flowering habit; relatively large single-type flowers that are purple in color with white and yellow-colored centers and darker purple-colored stripes; and excellent garden performance.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system, apparatus, and method for a modular food tray system having a plurality of food trays that can be used for heating, cooling, or a combination thereof. The system can include a first food tray for heating and a second food tray for cooling, generally mounted at a different elevation from the first food tray. Alternatively, one or both of the food trays can be designed for cooling through temperature elements coupled thereto and the tray can be heated by overhead radiant heating elements for dual temperature capabilities. The first food tray can be mounted above the second food tray. The first food tray can include a thermal shield between a heating element in the first food tray and the second food tray. In other embodiments, the second food tray can be mounted above the first food tray with a thermal shield therebetween.

Abstract: A double door temporary bulkhead locking member comprising a single or joined rigid material with the angle apex pointing inward. The temporary bulkhead is wedged across the width of the inside opening of a container. When the flowable product is installed into the container the pressure on the bulkhead is transferred to the outer edges sealing the product into the container. The temporary bulkhead material has a series of creases, notches, slots and shapes that are folded and locked into the proprietary shape. A single door bulkhead locking member comprising a single or joined rigid material as a straight plain panel to fit into the single doorway of a shipping container. The temporary bulkhead is wedged across the width of the inside opening of a container when one door is closed and the other open. When the flowable product is installed into the container the pressure on the bulkhead is transferred to the outer edges sealing the product into the container.

Abstract: A method for characterizing a hydraulic fracture in a sub-surface formation includes inducing a pressure change in a well drilled through the subsurface formation. At least one of pressure and pressure time derivative are measured in or at a location proximate to a wellhead for a selected length of time. At least one of a physical parameter, a time derivative, and a change in the parameter with respect to time of the physical parameter of at least one fracture is determined using the measured at least one of pressure and the time derivative of pressure.

Abstract: A rotary compressor includes a cylinder that is coupled to an inner space of a casing and that defines a compression space, a first bearing and a second bearing located at upper and lower sides of the cylinder, a roller disposed eccentrically with respect to an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder to vary a volume of the compression space based on rotation, and a vane inserted into the roller to rotate together with the roller, and drawn out toward the inner circumferential surface of the cylinder during the rotation of the roller to partition the compression space into a plurality of compression chambers. A suction passage communicating with the compression space is defined in the first bearing or the second bearing, and a suction port communicating between the suction passage and the compression space is defined on a side surface of the cylinder.

Abstract: A pipe fixing device comprising a plurality of pipes, for conducting liquid or gas, arranged to cross each other, and a fixing member for fixing the plurality of pipes. The fixing member comprises a plurality of pipe fixing bores, and a plurality of fitting bores for the fitting of bands used to tighten the pipes. The present invention can secure not only easy insertion of the pipes arranged to cross each other, but also enhancement in a coupling force of the pipes through the use of the tightening bands, resulting in stable and reliable fixation of the pipes.

Abstract: Computer systems and methods in various embodiments are configured for improving the security and efficiency of client computers interacting with server computers through supervising instructions defined in a web page and/or web browser. In an embodiment, a computer system comprising one or more processors, coupled to a remote client computer, and configured to send, to the remote client computer, one or more instructions, which when executed by the remote client computer, cause a run-time environment on the remote client computer to: intercept, within the run-time environment, a first call to execute a particular function defined in the run-time environment by a first caller function in the run-time environment; determine a first caller identifier, which corresponds to the first caller function identified in a run-time stack maintained by the run-time environment; determine whether the first caller function is authorized to call the particular function based on the first caller identifier.

Abstract: A non-volatile semiconductor memory device has a NAND string, in which multiple memory cells are connected in series. A read procedure is performed for a selected memory cell in the NAND string on the condition that the selected memory cell is applied with a selected voltage while unselected memory cells are driven to be turned on without regard to cell data thereof. In the read procedure, a first read pass voltage is applied to unselected memory cells except an adjacent and unselected memory cell disposed adjacent to the selected memory cell, the adjacent and unselected memory cell being completed in data write later than the selected memory cell, and a second read pass voltage higher than the first read pass voltage is applied to the adjacent and unselected memory cell.

Abstract: A method of tuning the time duration of laser output pulses, the method including spectrally dispersing optical pulses and further comprising providing an optical pulse having a time duration and a spectral bandwidth; spectrally dispersing (243, 245) the optical pulse so as to provide a selected change in the time duration of the pulse responsive to the spectral bandwidth of the pulse; outputting (226) an optical output pulse having a first time duration that is responsive to the selected change in time duration; providing another optical pulse; changing the amount of spectral bandwidth of the another optical pulse (272) to be different than that of the optical pulse or changing the amount of spectral dispersion so that spectrally dispersing the another optical pulse provides a change in time duration that is different than the selected change; and outputting (226) another optical output pulse having a second time duration that is responsive to the different change in time duration, the second time duration o

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed that control vehicle steering. An example apparatus includes: a path acquisition interface configured to obtain, via a user interface a sampling interval; and a controller configured to, during acquisition mode: determine a steering angle of a wheel of the vehicle based on a trigonometric function including a distance associated with a turn radius of the front wheel; and cause, utilizing the steering angle, a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver to travel from a first position to a second position, the GNSS receiver located at the first position at a first sampling time and the second position at a second sampling time, the first sampling time and the second sampling time differing by the sampling interval.

Abstract: An agricultural toolbar employs at least two wing assemblies for following the contour of the land in a working position and foldable to a transport position for transit on public roads. The principal use in working position benefits from having a wide range of movement to accommodate variations in land contours and soil types. The principal use in transport mode benefits from having a compact configuration to better meet road regulations. End-uses that condition cultivatable land at multiple locations will benefit from the toolbar.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for detecting and remediating clogged gauge wheels, closing wheels, and seed tubes of an agricultural planter.

Abstract: A seed treatment system incorporates an incline conveyor to mix freshly treated seed. A metered seed flow is maintained. A treatment applicator positioned above a tail end of the incline conveyor applies a seed treatment to the metered seed flow to form a treated seed flow. The treated seed flow freefalls into a transition zone and pre-mixes before moving upward within the incline conveyor. An eddy may form within the treated seed flow due to a partial obstruction within the incline conveyor. A prescribed amount of the treated seed flow backflows into the eddy in a cascading manner. Backflow movement may be contrary to conveyance of a substantial amount of the treated seed up through the incline conveyor. The seed treatment distributes about the treated seed flow within the incline conveyor. The treated seed flow discharges with complete cleanout at a head end of the incline conveyor.

Abstract: An information providing device includes an information acquisition part configured to acquire environment information which indicates a growth environment of grass in a predetermined area and state information which indicates a growth state of the grass in the predetermined area, and an information generating part configured to determine a good area which indicates an area in which the growth state of the grass in the predetermined area is good and a bad area which indicates an area in which the growth state of the grass in the predetermined area is bad based on the state information, and configured to generate management information which indicates a content of treatments to be performed with respect to the good area and the bad area based on the environment information.

Abstract: A first biasing element is positioned between an opening unit and a first frame for urging the opening unit downward. A lateral pivot combines the first biasing element to the first frame to allow for lateral movement in a horizontal plane of the opening unit. A first resilient device is positioned between the closing unit and the first frame to allow for lateral movement about a vertical axis of the closing unit and to urge the closing unit back to a neutral position. A second resilient device is positioned between the closing unit and the first frame to allow for vertical movement about a horizontal axis and to urge the closing unit back to a neutral position.

Abstract: An equidistant hole marking device for blueberry cultivation in a solar greenhouse is provided, which relates to the field of hole spacing marking technologies. The device includes a trigger rod, and the trigger rod is L-shaped. Four groups of moving rods are disposed outside an inner rod, the moving rods are diamond, and the moving rods are made of a plastic material. A circular pressing member is fixed outside each group of the moving rods, an upper side and a lower side of each circular pressing member are inclined, and the circular pressing members are made of a plastic material. When discharging powder, the moving rods and the circular pressing members are controlled to move inside a storage member, so that caked powder is crushed and discharged smoothly, thereby to improve marking efficiency.

Abstract: An agricultural row unit includes a knife disposed ahead of the gauge wheel for delivering material to soil adjacent to a trench. In one example, an agricultural row unit includes a frame, a wheel mounted to the frame, and a knife disposed ahead of the wheel and comprising a material delivery conduit disposed on, through, or adjacent the knife.

Abstract: A row unit closing wheel assembly includes a closing wheel, a closing wheel arm, and a closing wheel shaft having a first end and a second end. The closing wheel is coupled to the first end and the closing wheel arm is coupled to the second end via a pivot joint. The row unit closing wheel assembly includes an adjustable mechanical linkage assembly coupled both to the closing wheel shaft and to the closing wheel arm. The adjustable mechanical linkage is configured to adjust an angle of the closing wheel shaft relative to the closing wheel arm along a horizontal plane via movement of the closing wheel shaft about the pivot joint. The horizontal plane is orthogonal to a rotational axis of the pivot joint.

Abstract: A sensor generates an output signal indicative of an attribute of a limited amount of material above the sensor. A controller receives the output signal and incorporates a corresponding variable into a programmatic calculation of an indication of a volume of material in a tank.

Abstract: A grounds maintenance system comprising: a robot tractor comprising; a robot body; a drive system including one or more motorized drive wheels to propel the robot body; a control system coupled to the drive system, the control system configurable to store a mow plan that specifies a set of paths to be traversed for a grounds maintenance operation and control the drive system to autonomously traverse the set of paths to implement the mow plan; a battery system comprising one or more batteries housed in the robot body; and a low-profile mowing deck coupled to the robot body, the mowing deck adapted to tilt and lift relative to the robot body, wherein the control system is configured to control tilting and lifting of the mowing deck and cutting by the mowing deck.

Abstract: A walk reel mower has a traction frame that carries at least one ground engaging member operatively powered by a prime mover. A rotatable cutting reel is operatively powered by the prime mower for pushing grass against a bedknife to cut the grass. A handle assembly is used to guide and manipulate the mower, and a traction bail on the handle assembly disengages and engages the traction drive. The traction bail is movable between first and second positions that have a range of motion large enough to permit the user to move the control into at least one intermediate position to produce a reduced ground speed greater than zero but less than the nominal ground speed.

Abstract: A walk power mower comprises a housing having an upwardly and rearwardly extending handle that is gripped by an operator. A load cell is responsive to the force applied by the operator to the handle during a grass mowing operation. Input from the load cell is used by a control system to vary the ground speed of the mower in accordance with the sensed operator applied force through control of an electric traction drive motor.

Abstract: A removable cover plate assembly may be quickly attached, detached and adjusted to the exterior of a concave grate of a combine harvester in order to adjust the flow characteristics of the concave or separator grate assemblies.

Abstract: A concave section for a harvester includes a concave body having an upstream side, a downstream side, a leading end and a trailing end. The concave body defines an arcuate crop engagement face facing radially inwardly. A plurality of crop passage openings are defined through the arcuate crop engagement face. A cover is configured to at least partially cover at least some of the crop passage openings. The cover is carried by the concave body and is movable thereon between at least two different positions to adjust a degree of openness of at least some of the crop passage openings.

Abstract: Weed seeds are destroyed in the chaff from a combine harvester by repeated high speed impacts caused by a rotor mounted in one of a pair of side by side housings which accelerate the discarded seeds into contact with stator bars at angularly spaced positions around the axis of the rotor. U-shaped bars are symmetrical and can be reversed when the second leg is worn for extended life. Parts of the rotor and stator which are radially outward of other parts are formed with a higher resistance to wear approximately proportional to the radius so that the wear characteristics of the different parts are matched to the velocity of the particles impacting the different portions to generate symmetrical wear throughout the structure.

Abstract: A self-propelled baling vehicle for forming a bale of material includes a drive system for propelling the baling vehicle, a baling system for forming the bale, and a control system coupled to the drive system and the baling system. The control system includes a controller configured to determine a proposed location for ejection of the bale, operate the drive system to maneuver the baling vehicle from a first position to a second position for ejection of the bale at the proposed location, operate the baling system to eject the bale at the proposed location, and operate the drive system to maneuver the baling vehicle back to the first position.

Abstract: An irrigation system having a reservoir with self-sealing openings is provided. The reservoir comprises a body having an outer surface and a cavity for storing fluid. The reservoir also includes a plurality of self-sealing openings on the outer surface and configured to move between a first configuration in which the self-sealing openings are closed and a second configuration in which the self-sealing openings are open and permit fluid to release from the cavity to a target zone. The self-sealing openings are in the first configuration when a fluid pressure in the reservoir is at least one of zero pressure or negative pressure and the self-sealing openings are in the second configuration when the fluid pressure in the reservoir is a positive pressure relative to an external pressure.

Abstract: A root irrigation system includes a first polygonal shaped pipe having a first blade shaped bottom, a first elongated body having a first end and a second end, and a first chamber within the first polygonal shaped pipe configured to permit fluid flow from the first end to the second end. The root irrigation system further includes a fitting configured to operably couple to the first end of the first polygonal shaped pipe.

Abstract: A hose-pull apparatus for mounting to an irrigation system mobile tower supporting a fluid-carrying conduit. The hose-pull apparatus includes a swivel, a first pipe section, a joint, and a second pipe section. The swivel is configured to be in fluid communication with the conduit and rotate about a vertical axis. The first pipe section has a first end connected to the swivel and a second end extending outwardly from the swivel so that the first pipe section can pivot horizontally. The joint is connected to the second end of the first pipe section. The second pipe section has a first end connected to the joint so that the second pipe section can articulate relative to the first pipe section. The joint also has a second end configured to be in fluid communication with a supply hose.

Abstract: A hydroponic growing apparatus, system, and method is provided. The hydroponic grower includes one or more seed beds each having a length and a width operably supported by a framework. A seed belt is rotatable around each of the one or more seed beds between loading and offloading positions to and from a seed growing position. Seed is discharged onto the seed belt for hydroponically growing a seed atop of the one or more seed beds. Seed growth can be offloaded through the path of a stream of liquid exiting a liquid nozzle for cutting through offloaded seed growth in at least one direction.

Abstract: The invention concerns a system for cultivating plant products without soil comprising a plurality of shelves for cultivating plant products. The shelves have a reference axis and comprise: a supporting frame, a plurality of cultivation bars which have an approximately rectilinear shape, extend along respective longitudinal axes, and are coupled to the supporting frame so as to be arranged approximately coplanar and alongside one another, and have the respective longitudinal axes parallel to the reference axis and mechanical spacing members, which are interleaved between the adjacent cultivation bars, and are each structured so that the actuation of a mechanical spacing member causes a variation of the distance transverse to the reference axis, between two cultivation bars immediately adjacent to the same member. The invention also concerns a method for cultivating plant products.

Abstract: An irrigation system for a vertical farming structure having vertical grow towers and associated conveyance mechanisms for moving the vertical grow towers through a controlled environment, while being exposed to controlled conditions, such as lighting, airflow, humidity and nutritional support. The present disclosure describes a grow tower conveyance system that moves vertically-oriented grow towers to select positions along a grow line. An irrigation line having apertures at the select positions provides aqueous nutrient solution to the grow towers, while a gutter structure captures excess solution. In a closed loop system, the excess solution returns to a recirculation tank.

Abstract: A connector assembly for a plant support structure comprising of a hub, a compressible sleeve and a second piece engaged with the hub is disclosed. The hub contains a pass through hole at the center to allow passage of a support member. It also contains receptacles perpendicular to the axis of the central pass through hole to receive the cross members of the plant support structure. The reversible engagement features utilized to secure hub to the second piece allow vertical repositioning of the cross members supporting multiple plants.

Abstract: An improved landscape timber system including a spike and an adjustable length adapter. In one embodiment of the adjustable length adapter, the adjustable length adapter has one end that is configured to receive an end portion of the landscape timber body for changing the overall length, shortening or elongating, of a landscape timber. Once the adjustable length adapter is fitted onto the landscape timber an aesthetic edge is produced. In one embodiment of the spike, the spike has an adjustable length adapter with a first end, an opposite end, and a plurality of equally radially spaced wings forming an elongated body. The opposite end defines a pointed end for driving into the earth, where the wings of the adjustable length adapter converge toward a common point. The radially spaced wings define a polygonal configuration for improved rigidity of the spike and pointed end.

Abstract: Methods are described for selecting or producing a cereal plant comprising functional restorer genes for wheat G-type cytoplasmic male sterility and nucleic acids for use therein.

Abstract: The invention provides a Tomato Leaf Curl New Dehli Virus (ToLCNDV) tolerance or resistant QTL in cucurbit plants and plants comprising the QTL. The invention also provides molecular markers linked to QTL. The invention further provides methods of breeding to produce plants that are resistant to ToLCNDV, and the resistant plants produced by such methods.

Abstract: The subject invention provides compositions and methods of using the same for improving plants' defense by employing naturally-derived chemicals. In a specific embodiment, the composition is from Parthenium argentatum Gray, also known as the guayule plant. Preferred compositions can up- or downregulate growth genes responsible for the targeted plants' defense mechanisms in order to create physical and/or chemical barriers, and produce detouring exudates, antagonistic compounds, or fumigating compounds that prevent and treat damages from pests in agronomic or non-agronomic plants.

Abstract: A barley variety designated AS-Wolf, the plants, seeds and plant parts of barley variety AS-Wolf, methods for producing a barley plant produced by crossing the variety AS-Wolf with itself or another barley plant, and hybrid barley seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety AS-Wolf with another barley line or plant, and the creation of variants of variety AS-Wolf by backcrossing, mutagenesis, haploid systems, cell and tissue culture or transformation utilizing transgenes are disclosed. Methods for producing other barley varieties or breeding lines derived from barley variety AS-Wolf and to barley varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided. Barley variety AS-Wolf demonstrates a unique combination of traits for the human food market including waxy starch, hulless seed and increased levels of beta-glucan fiber.

Abstract: Several Proso cultivars are disclosed having improved yields. The technology relates to the seeds, plants, and plant parts of Proso cultivars; and further provides methods for producing progeny of Proso cultivars. The technology also relates to Proso cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from Proso cultivars; and to methods for producing other Proso cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from Proso cultivars, and to the Proso plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The technology further relates to hybrid Proso seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing improved-yield Proso cultivars with another Proso cultivar.