Methods of producing sugar cane transplant units
AssigneeSyngenta Participations AG
InventorsAdilson Donizeti Correa Da Silva, Luis Batista, Luiz Vidal
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Abstract
Methods of producing sugar cane transplant units that includes planting a sugar cane propagation material in a planting container that has a volume of 10 to 200 cubic centimeters; growing the sugar plant to an age of at least 4 months; harvesting the stalks of the sugar cane plant when the stalks have a length of 10 to 50 centimeters; cutting the harvested stalks into stalk segments, wherein the stalk segments are cut to a length of 1 to 5 centimeters; and planting one or more of the stalk segments into a planting container that has a volume from 10 to 200 cubic centimeters.
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A method of producing a sugar cane planting unit, the method comprising:
- a. planting a sugar cane propagation material in a first planting container to produce a sugar cane plant, wherein the sugar cane propagation material is a plant produced from tissue culture, or a sugar cane billet, and wherein the first planting container has a volume of 10 to 200 cubic centimeters;
- b. growing the sugar plant in the first planting container to an age of 4 to 18 months, wherein the sugar cane plant has 1 to 4 stalks and at least one stalk has a linear node density of at least 1 node per 3 centimeters of stalk;
- c. harvesting the stalk(s) of the sugar cane plant when the stalk(s) have a length of 10 to 50 centimeters;
- d. cutting the harvested stalk(s) into stalk segments, wherein the stalk segments are cut to a length of 1 to 5 centimeters;
- e. treating the stalk segments with water and a crop protection chemical, wherein the water temperature is 45° C. to 55° C.;
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- f. planting one or more of the treated stalk segments into a second planting container comprising a planting medium to form a planting unit, wherein said second planting container has a volume from 10 to 200 cubic centimeters.
A method of producing a sugar cane planting unit, the method comprising:
- a. planting one or more stalk segments into a second planting container comprising a planting medium to form a planting unit, wherein said second planting container has a volume from 10 to 200 cubic centimeters, and wherein the one or more stalk segments was produced by the steps comprising:
- i. planting a sugar cane propagation material in a first planting container to produce a sugar cane plant, wherein the sugar cane propagation material is a plant produced from tissue culture, or a sugar cane billet, and wherein the first planting container has a volume of 10 to 200 cubic centimeters;
- ii. growing the sugar plant in the first planting container to an age of 4 to 18 months, wherein the sugar cane plant has 1 to 4 stalks and at least one stalk has a linear node density of at least 1 node per 3 centimeters of stalk;
- iii. harvesting the stalk(s) of the sugar cane plant when the stalk(s) have a length of 10 to 50 centimeters;
- iv. cutting the harvested stalk(s) into stalk segments, wherein the stalk segments are cut to a length of 1 to 5 centimeters;
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- v. treating the stalk segments with water and a crop protection chemical.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.