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US 2016/0103112 A1Published application
Plant seed computer morphometry to determine darwinian variation fitness
OwnerIrwin Rovnerinventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for the determination of the ecological health of a plant by determining the plant seed diversity.
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A method of assessing the ecological health of a specific taxon of a plant comprising:
- a) accumulating a large sample of seeds of the specific taxon of the plant;
- b) using a digital camera operatively connected to a computer creating visual morphological measurements of the sample of seeds and creating a morphometric database of the measurements on the computer;
- c) the computer calculating the seed diversity of the sample from the database:
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- d) Determining the ecological health of the specific taxon of the plant as being directly related to the diversity of the seeds.
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A variametric analysis system for determining the ecological health of a specific taxon of a plant from a large sample of seeds comprising:
- a) a digital camera operatively connected to a computer capable of creating visual morphological measurements of the sample of seeds and creating a morphometric database of the measurements on the computer;
- b) a program in resident memory on the computer for determining the diversity of a large sample of seeds of the plant from the morphological measurements;
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- c) a program in resident memory on the computer for calculating the ecological health of the plant from the diversity of the seed sample.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.