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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8186099 | Method for producing propagating material to be used in tree cultivations of double-trunk type The present invention relates to a method for producing propagating material, in particular whole plants, to be used in tree cultivations of double trunk type and the obtained material. ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 7328532 | Method and a kit for shaping a portion of a woody plant into a desired form A method of shaping a portion of a woody plant into a desired form is provided. The method is effected by providing a root of a woody plant, shaping the root into the desired form and culturing the root under conditions suitable for secondary thickening of the root.... | 02/12/2008 |
| 6918205 | Grafting tool A method of cutting a stem to be whip grafted, comprising: securing the stem in a bore of a hand-held grafting tool that includes an angled end, with a portion of the stem extending out from the angled end; drawing a knife across a face of the angled end to thereby ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6901696 | Method of plant propagation using root bark-grafting to sections A grafting method comprises the steps of, first preparing a stool by right transverse cuts through a limb or trunk, meaning that the limb or trunk of a tree or shrub is cut at essentially right angles. Root and scion stocks are grafted to the stool using the well kn... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6574916 | Plant grafting system A plant grafting system comprises a cutter assembly. The cutter assembly has a pair of V-shaped upper razors and a pair of V-shaped lower razors. A holder/insertion assembly is provided. The holder/insertion assembly is laterally spaced from the cutter as... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6515200 | Euphorbia interspecific hybrid plant A new plant was created as an interspecific hybrid of the genus Euphorbia. The plant was created by the rescue of an embryo resulting from the cross-pollination of a cultivated Poinsettia, Euphorbia pulcherrima, with a seedling of the uncultivated Euphorb... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6395963 | Nematode-inducible regulatory DNA sequences Nematode-inducible promoter sequences are disclosed. These sequences can be used for expressing DNA sequences in plant cells. Chimeric DNA constructs comprising the nematode-inducible promoter sequences operably linked to DNA to be expressed in plant cell... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6262344 | Nematode-inducible plant gene promoter An isolated DNA fragment that promotes root knot or cyst nematode indcuible transcription of a coding sequence downstream of and operably linked to the fragment in at least an Arabidopsis thaliana plant and a chimeric DNA sequence including the DNA fragme... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6148560 | Grafting machine A grafting system for cutting the end of a plant material includes a frame for holding the plant material and a blade assembly mounted to the frame. The blade assembly includes a blade that is movable at an angle oblique to the longitudinal axis of the pl... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6103694 | Method of decreasing radiation of radio-mimetic chemotherapy for hematopoietic pluripotent cell engraftment The present invention provides a method of engrafting donor mammalian hematopoietic pluripotent cells in a mammalian recipient using a decreased amount of radiation, comprising: (a) administering to the recipient at least one dosage of a hematopoietic gro... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6103955 | Procedure for the genetic transformation of adult plants of woody species The procedure is based on the use, as vegetable starting material for the transformation, of the first shoots from the graft of buds of adult trees onto stock, the genetic transformation of explants from the adult shoots by mean of co cultivation with Agr... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6016626 | Machine and process for working the surface of long, narrow objects A machine for the surface treatment of long, narrow objects, more particularly vine shoots, with the following features: a frame fixture (3), that defines the direction of motion (32); at least one conveyor module (4), that has at least one pair of conveyor ro... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5846661 | Film for the treatment of soils by fumigation The present invention relates to a film (A) consisting of a mixture comprising at least one polyamide and at least one polyolefin, the said film being placed on agricultural land into which a fumigant is injected. According to a first variant, the inventi... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5832661 | Method for growing root buds A grafting film is provided which is formed of a film of a polyalkylene polymer having a self-adhesive property and an elastic memory which causes the film when stretched around a scion and rootstock graft union to gradually contract around the graft unio... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5832662 | Method for grafting rootstock using improved grafting film A grafting film is provided which is formed of a film of a polyalkylene polymer having a self-adhesive property and an elastic memory which causes the film when stretched around a scion and rootstock graft union to gradually contract around the graft unio... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5813167 | Grafting method and device therefor Grafting a scion on a stock is effected by opening a chuck and inserting bar-like members in a storage chamber successively into the chuck with the front end of such bar-like members protruding out of a front end hole 5D, 105D, closing the chuck 4, 104 to... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5771633 | Method for producing potato tubers using a graft plant The present invention relates to a method for producing potato tubers comprising grafting a potato plant as a scion on a solanaceous plant as a stock and culturing the resultant graft plant by hydroponics to thereby form tubers on the aerial part of the g... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5712164 | Method for reducing contamination of in vitro cultures of shoot material This invention relates to a method for reducing contamination of in vitro cultures. In particular, this invention relates to a method for reducing contamination of in vitro cultures of woody plant mature shoot material and shoot material of outdoor origin... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5524386 | Method and apparatus for uniting a scion to a stock A grafting method for uniting a scion to a stock includes forming conical projection on either a lower portion of a scion or an upper portion of a stock, forming a conical recess on either a lower portion of a scion or an upper portion of a stock, and joi... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5444938 | Device for Vee-grafting Device for Vee-grafting, especially for hard-and-stone-fruit trees, with an angled knife (8) for cutting a groove (K) in the stock (10) arranged to move in an outer part (2), formed as a guide space by means of a toggle lever (31, 32, 33), which is inclin... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5414958 | Method and apparatus for uniting a scion to a stock A grafting method for uniting a scion to a stock includes forming a conical projection on either a lower portion of a scion or an upper portion of a stock, forming a conical recess on either a lower portion of a scion or an upper portion of a stock, and j... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5209011 | Apparatus for grafting immature plants There is disclosed an immature plant grafting apparatus capable of seizing en bloc a plurality of saplings raised in array irrespective of a scatter in diameters of stems without requiring hand works and damaging the saplings and of grafting the saplings ... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5099600 | Paraffin wax grafting technique and apparatus A technique and equipment for grafting are disclosed. The technique involves forming a wedge on a scion, forming a cleft or side cut in rootstock, forming a union with the scion and rootstock, binding the union with budding strips, and coating the wrapped... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5020408 | Tool for obliquely severing flower stems A tool for obliquely severing flower stems comprises a housing having a passage for inserting thereinto a flower stem to be severed, and a cutting blade extending between the opposing side walls of the passage. The cutting edge of the cutting blade is dir... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4937971 | Process of grafted cuttings of stock and scion from in vitro Starting from a herbaceous cutting, which may be derived from in vitro culture, of stock and of a herbaceous scion, the process consists of inserting the scion (12') having a single bud, into the stock cutting (12), by bevelling the lower end 15 of the sc... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4839986 | Grafting apparatus A hand-held tool for making grafting-flap cuts in the bark of a tree limb includes an elongated tubular body having an open end for accommodating coaxial insertion of the limb. The end of the body adjacent the open end has a plurality of elongated slots l... | 06/20/1989 |
| 4769944 | Grafting machine The grafting machine comprises two assemblies, namely a top assembly 4 and a bottom assembly 3, mounted on two guide columns 2 joined at the bottom to a base 21 and at the top to a brace 5; the top assembly 4 has a scraper blade 12 associated with a cutte... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4724276 | Process for altering poinsettia growth characteristics A technique is described by which plant growth characters are altered in poinsettias. In particular, the branching characteristics of restricted branching cultivars are altered by grafting their scions onto understock plants which are free branching. Stem... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4654999 | Cutting device A cutting device particularly for use in grafting operations involving vines, plants and trees, having lever means (10,11) pivoted at (12) and coupled to a blade mount, the blades (22) of which co-operating with an anvil (25). A guide means (29) locates t... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4601129 | Machine for vine material engrafting The engrafting machine comprises a carrying frame to which is mounted an endless apron conveyor with measuring clamps and a sorting device having sequently disposed calibrating cams. Underneath each cam is formed in the frame a pocket for collecting the s... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4531290 | Cutting tool for manual grafting The invention relates to a cutting tool for manual grafting comprising a cutting element (1) with curved surface, a locating element (3) guided in a cutting direction (i) against the cutting element (1) for locating a plant part to be grafted and means fo... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4516353 | Method of producing vole-resistant apple trees and trees produced thereby The present invention relates to novel propagated apple trees having increased vole resistance and to methods for propagating such trees; and relates in one aspect to an apple tree having a vole-resistant rootstock and having growing thereon a desired app... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4394796 | Vegetation stem cutting apparatus Vegetation stem cutting apparatus comprises (a) elongated tongs which are interconnected at a pivot, (b) a table carried by one tong proximate the end thereof, (c) and a knife carried by the other tong to close toward the table when the tongs are pivoted to cut the... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4392304 | Universal manual grafting device A hand tool for use in performing manual agricultural grafting, comprises a fixed and a movable handle pivotally connected to each other and having working portions extending beyond the pivot. A coil tension spring connects the first handle to the working... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4383390 | Method and apparatus for hot-callusing graft unions The hot-callusing method and apparatus of the invention direct heat to the graft union area of plants or trees to accelerate the callusing of the stock and scion while leaving the remaining plant parts unheated. The apparatus comprises a tube having openi... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4348832 | Single flower stem cutter A flower stem cutter for an individual flower includes a liquid filled jar having a cover releasably attached. The liquid includes any antibacterial agent and feed. A flower stem guide is secured to a diametrical slot in the cover and projects inwardly in... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4154020 | Process for the propagation of rose plants An improved rose plant propagation process which can be carried out on an expeditious basis is provided. Stem segments from a scion rose plant and an understock rose plant are obtained during an active stage of growth. An end of a scion segment is placed ... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4138801 | Method of propagating selected filbert varieties Method of obtaining engrafted engrafting material from a giant filbert tree. Engrafting takes place on Turkish filbert shoots and afterwards the shoots engrafted are stratified in a neutral granular medium preferably composed of swelled perlite, the tempe... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4138802 | Method of growing plants in the roots of a live osmunda fern A planter is comprised of a living plant, such as an osmunda fern and the like, having a large porous and fibrous root, and at least one hole formed in the root of the living plant for receiving the roots of a diverse live plant, the fibrous root of the l... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4098020 | Method and apparatus for horticultural grafting A method and apparatus are disclosed for making improved grafting joints between plant components, particularly woody plants. Selected plant materials may be grafted one upon another by cutting out two diametrically opposed, longitudinally diagonal sector... | 07/04/1978 |
