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Using NDVI/NDRE to Assess Wheat Tiller Density
THE CHALLENGE
The core challenge for cereal growers lies in efficiently managing nitrogen applications to maximize yield while minimizing waste and environmental impact. Traditional methods like manual tiller counts and soil testing are not only time-consuming and labor-intensive but also fail to capture the full picture of field variability due to...
Published: 7/10/2025
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Inventor(s): Joseph Oakes, Maria Balota, Wade Thomason, Alexandre-Brice Cazenave
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture
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Optimizing AVG and ACC for Better Apple Ripening
THE CHALLENGE
Apple growers face a significant challenge in balancing fruit quality and yield due to the complex role of ethylene, a plant hormone that both enhances red coloration and accelerates fruit drop before harvest. While ethylene inhibitors like AVG and 1-MCP are used to reduce losses from premature fruit detachment, they also suppress anthocyanin...
Published: 7/10/2025
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Inventor(s): Sherif Sherif
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture
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Graphene Biosensors for Early Ketosis Detection in Cows
THE CHALLENGE
The challenge facing dairy producers today is the lack of a reliable, affordable, and easy-to-use solution for early detection of subclinical ketosis in cows during early lactation, a period when animals are especially vulnerable due to negative energy balance. Elevated levels of beta-hydroxybutyrate or BHB in blood and milk are key...
Published: 7/10/2025
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Inventor(s): Azahar Ali, Katharine Knowlton, Shannon Chick
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture, Technology Classifications > Electronics
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Calculator to Quantify Cover Crop Effects on Soil Health and Productivity
THE CHALLENGE
The main challenge facing the adoption and optimization of cover crops lies in the lack of accessible, data-driven tools that can translate complex soil health research into practical, region-specific recommendations for farmers and agribusinesses. While cover crops are known to improve key soil functions—like structure, nutrient...
Published: 7/3/2025
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Inventor(s): Ryan Stewart, Jinshi Jian, Brandon Lester
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Software, Technology Classifications > Agriculture
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Highly Sensitive 3D Sensors for Prevention of Hypocalcemia in Dairy Cows
THE CHALLENGE
Hypocalcemia, colloquially known as Milk Fever, is a common metabolic disorder caused by severe calcium deficiency most prevalent in dairy cows. This disorder has clinical and subclinical levels of severity, the latter often going undetected due to lack of symptoms. Without treatment, up to 60-80% of cases result in death. Further, milk...
Published: 6/25/2025
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Inventor(s): Azahar Ali, Matin Ataei Kachouei
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Agriculture, Technology Classifications > Biotechnology, Technology Classifications > Chemicals/Materials, Technology Classifications > Electronics, Technology Classifications > Veterinary Technologies
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Delaying Bloom in Crops via Jasmonic Acid Inhibitors
THE CHALLENGE
The challenge of protecting deciduous fruit crops from spring frost lies in the lack of cost-effective, scalable, and environmentally sustainable solutions that align with both biological timing and unpredictable weather patterns. Traditional methods like frost fans, heaters, and sprinklers are not only expensive and energy-intensive...
Published: 6/25/2025
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Inventor(s): Sherif Sherif, Jianyang Liu, Tabibul Islam
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture
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Fungal Biocontrol of Invasive Noxious Poison Ivy
Poison ivy is a noxious native plant species that when touched by humans causes a delayed contact dermatitis resulting in a swollen, blistering, painful, oozing, and itching skin rash. Poison ivy is a frequent wild volunteer plant in managed landscapes and gardens.
Although there are synthetic chemical control measures for killing poison ivy (i.e.,...
Published: 4/4/2025
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Inventor(s): John Jelesko, Matthew Kasson
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture
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A Broad-spectrum Biopesticide Strain with Plant Growth Promoting Capability
THE CHALLENGE
Plant diseases can wipe out entire crops and historical plantings in a short period of time as shown by boxwood blight. Globally, these diseases pose increasing risks to food security and plant biosecurity. Current approaches to disease management depend largely on chemical protection. These approaches are not sustainable due to growing...
Published: 6/26/2025
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Inventor(s): Ping Kong
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture, Technology Classifications > Environment/Green Tech
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Enhancing Phosphate-Use Efficiency
THE CHALLENGE
Mineable Phosphorus, while essential for maintaining food security worldwide, is becoming increasingly scarce as the global population increases. Furthermore, this nonrenewable resource is inefficiently allocated in urban and agricultural areas and detrimentally impact the environment. Wastewater treatment and overfertilization lead...
Published: 6/26/2025
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Inventor(s): Glenda Gillaspy, Catherine Freed, Sarah Williams, Zhiwu Wang
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture, Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Environment/Green Tech
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Novel Production Method of Stink Bug Pheromone
for Crop Protection
THE CHALLENGE
In integrated pest management, synthetic pheromones are often deployed in traps or with trap crops to lure insects away from commercial crops. Currently these pheromones are chemically synthesized and applied to trap crops. This form of production has limited sustainability and there are difficulties with high yield production. Therefore,...
Published: 6/30/2025
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Inventor(s): Dorothea Tholl, Jason Lancaster
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture, Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Biotechnology
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