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Regulating biomass yield in sorghum and methods of use

BACKGROUND The biofuel industry is currently encountering significant challenges in addressing the increasing energy needs of the future. Sorghum, a remarkably versatile crop utilized for food, forage, fiber, and biofuels, distinguishes itself with its high biomass yield and minimal input requirements. As the leading producer and exporter of sorghum,...

Published: 8/27/2024 | Inventor(s): Million Tadege, Dimiru Tadesse

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Food Science, Technology Classifications > Animal Health

Apparatus and Methods to Assess Sub-Surface Tissue Properties

BACKGROUND Knowing the optical properties of a material below the layer able to be visualized via machine without contact, invasion, or destruction of the material is highly useful for quality control or monitoring purposes. Unfortunately, current technology cannot provide the ability to non-destructively identify and assess properties beneath the...

Published: 12/18/2023 | Inventor(s): Daqing Piao

Keywords(s): Agriculture & Food Science, Animal Health, Engineering: Ag & Bio, Engineering: Electrical & Computer, Hardware, Medical Device & Diagnostic, Sensors

Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering > Electrical & Computer Engr, Technology Classifications > Research Tools, Technology Classifications > Medical Device & Diagnostic, Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Food Science, Technology Classifications > Animal Health, Technology Classifications > Engineering > Biosystems & Ag Engr

Algorithm/Software for Predicting Safe Cooking Times for Meat and Poultry

BACKGROUND Moisture enhancement of poultry and mechanical tenderization of meat (pork and beef) products are now common practices in North America. However, several foodborne outbreaks and recalls, related to these non-intact poultry and meat products, have been reported by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) since 2000. In light of these outbreaks,...

Published: 11/27/2023 | Inventor(s): Joyjit Saha, Divya Jaroni

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Food Science, Technology Classifications > Software

Self-Contained Floating Cover and Operating System for ASBR Digesters

BACKGROUND Anaerobic sequencing batch reactor (ASBR) is a high-rate liquid digestor system that uses a bioconversion process on low-solid, high-strength wastewaters to generate biogas and treat waste. It works in four phases: feeding in of substrate (manure, wastewater, etc.), the reaction between microorganisms and substrate by mixing the contents,...

Published: 7/14/2023 | Inventor(s): Douglas Hamilton

Keywords(s): Energy & Environment

Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Food Science, Technology Classifications > Environment & Energy

Method to Produce Edible Beef Skin

BACKGROUND Culinary preparation of beef hide is common in African, Asian, and Caribbean cuisines. Despite this multi-continental popularity of beef skin consumption, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) does not recognize beef hide as an edible product. However, there is a demand in the United States for beef skin which cannot currently...

Published: 5/17/2023 | Inventor(s): Siewe Siewe, Jacob Nelson

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Category(s): Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Food Science

An Eco-Friendly Method to Disrupt Pheromone Perception in Ostrinia nubilalis: Helping Hand to Farmers

BACKGROUND European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis, is a very serious pest of grain corn, sweet corn, and other crops. O. nubilalis accounts for about 5.5 to 8.5 million tons of corn loss per year in Europe and other countries. Introduced to the United States in the 1900s, this pest accounts for 20% of yield loss in North America with damages estimated...

Published: 5/31/2023 | Inventor(s): Smita Mohanty, Viswanath Nukala, Shine Ayyappan

Keywords(s): Agriculture & Food Science, Animal Health, Chemistry

Category(s): Technology Classifications > Animal Health, Technology Classifications > Chemistry, Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Food Science

Selective Liquid Transport Surface for Sample Separation and Analysis

BACKGROUND Miniature, cost-effective devices for sample separation have long been desired for medical diagnostics as well as analysis in areas such as process control and environmental monitoring. Traditional sample separation methods such as centrifugation, solvent extraction, and liquid-liquid phase separation require complex instrumentation...

Published: 5/17/2023 | Inventor(s): Yu Mao, Mengfan (Michael) Zhu

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Food Science, Technology Classifications > Research Tools

Engineering Agrobacterium tumefaciens to Deliver Proteins that Improve Plant Transformation

BACKGROUND Agrobacteria (Agrobacterium sp.) are plant pathogens that have been used as “natural genetic engineers” for the past 40 years, enabling the creation of transgenic plant lines and the overall transformation of agricultural and horticultural techniques. However, a major drawback of Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation...

Published: 8/18/2023 | Inventor(s): Kirankumar Mysore, Vidhyavathi (Vidhya) Raman, Clemencia Rojas

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Food Science

Graphical User Interphase (GUI) Bioinformatic tool for the rapid detection of plant pathogens in next generation sequencing data - MiFi (R)

BACKGROUND Pathogen detection has always been a challenge in diagnostics. Current techniques like polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or bacterial/viral culture are reliable but carry some pitfalls. Primarily, PCR techniques are unable to detect more than five targets, and culturing methods are incredibly time consuming. Recently, metagenomic sequencing...

Published: 5/24/2023 | Inventor(s): Ulrich Melcher, Peter Hoyt, Kitty Cardwell, Andres Espindola Camacho

Keywords(s): Research Tools & Methods

Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Food Science, Technology Classifications > Biotech & Pharmaceutical, Technology Classifications > Medical Device & Diagnostic, Technology Classifications > Research Tools, Technology Classifications > Software

Microbe Finder MiFi (R) Accurate Detection of Pathogens in Plants & Animal Samples Using Next Gen Sequencing

Published: 5/31/2023 | Inventor(s): Andres Espindola Camacho, Kitty Cardwell

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Food Science, Technology Classifications > Medical Device & Diagnostic, Technology Classifications > Software, Technology Classifications > Research Tools

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