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AssigneePioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
InventorsHugh Lu, Edwin J. Anderson
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The present invention relates to an apparatus, method, software algorithm and system for evaluating plants for conditions or characteristics. In one aspect, the method can include imaging at least a portion of the plant and evaluating the image for discriminating condition(s) or characteristic(s) of interest. In one example, soybean roots are imaged and the image is evaluated to discriminate between soybean cyst nematode (SCN) cysts and the plant roots to count the number of SCN cysts for the plant. In another embodiment, a plant is illuminated by a ultra-violet radiation selected to cause photo-induced fluorescence of a target, e.g. SCN cysts. The fluorescence emitted is collected and analyzed to discriminate between the target and the remainder of the plant.
A method for evaluating a condition or characteristic of a plant that exhibits some external manifestation on the plant comprising:
An apparatus for evaluating a plant or portion thereof relative to a target having some external manifestation on the plant comprising:
The apparatus of claim 47 wherein the illumination source is filtered to a selected wavelength range.
The apparatus of claim 47 wherein the illumination source is filtered to a wavelength pre-selected to cause fluorescence of the external manifestation which is dectectably different than radiation reflected or emitted from other parts of the plant.
A method of discriminating SCN cysts from the remainder of a soybean plant comprising:
A method for counting soybean cyst nematode cysts in a soybean plant comprising:
A method of evaluating a condition or characteristic of a plant where the condition or characteristic has an external manifestation on the plant comprising:
An apparatus for evaluating a condition or characteristic of a plant where the condition or characteristic has an external manifestation on the plant comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.