Plant protection
OwnerAvi Klaymaninventor
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Abstract
Improved protection of plants and their crops is achieved by growing the plant under a construction having a roof with at least a substantial portion being made of a net of a mesh size allowing adequate ventilation. The net is made of a transparent or translucent polymeric material having incorporated therein a UV-light absorber.
Claims20
A method for protection of plants or their crops from infection by insects, comprising:
- disposing a net of a mesh size allowing adequate ventilation in operative relationship to at least some of said plants and at least partially between said plants and a source of UV light;
- wherein the net comprises a transparent or translucent polymeric material having incorporated therewith a sufficient amount of UV-light absorbent material to cause at least about 60% of the incident UV light to be filtered out;
- providing at least one area that would permit said insects to have physical access to said plants;
- filtering out at least about 60% of the UV light that, except for said net, would have been incident on said plants as a consequence of the UV light absorbent material incorporated with said polymeric material, such that at least about 60% of the incident UV light is prevented from reaching an area around said plants;
- at least reducing the number of infecting insects passing from said ambient atmosphere to said plants as a consequence of filtering out said UV light;
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- thereby at least reducing the amount of infection of said plants or crops caused by said insects.
An enclosure for growing plants comprising:
- a roof;
- at least one side wall operatively associated with said roof;
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- at least one net, having a mesh size allowing adequate ventilation of said plants, disposed about said plants including on at least part of said roof;
- wherein the net comprises a transparent or translucent polymeric material
- having incorporated therewith an amount of UV-light absorber sufficient to enable exclusion of at least about 60% of UV light incident on said net from passing through said net;
- wherein said enclosure comprises at least one area that poses no physical impediment to the passage of insects into proximity to said plants;
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- wherein the exclusion of said UV light at least reduces the number of plant infecting insects that will pass into said enclosure.
A net, having a mesh size that is sufficiently large to allow ventilation there through, wherein said net comprises a transparent or translucent polymeric material, having incorporated with said polymeric material a sufficient amount of a UV-light absorber to prevent at least about 60% of incident UV light from passing through said net and, as a consequence of exclusion of said UV light, is adapted to prevent the transmission there through of insects that are able to cause infestation of plants.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.