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WO1986006576A1
WO1986006576A1 PCT/AU1986/000136 AU8600136W WO8606576A1 WO 1986006576 A1 WO1986006576 A1 WO 1986006576A1 AU 8600136 W AU8600136 W AU 8600136W WO 8606576 A1 WO8606576 A1 WO 8606576A1
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David Norman Schonstein
Brian Jordayne Johnson
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01H—NEW PLANTS OR NON-TRANSGENIC PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES
    • A01H4/00—Plant reproduction by tissue culture techniques ; Tissue culture techniques therefor
    • A01H4/003—Cutting apparatus specially adapted for tissue culture

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  • This invention relates to improvements in the micropropogation of plants and in particular to a method and apparatus for dividing plant materials.
  • micropropagation offers a convenient and effective method of disease control with consequent improvement in plant quality. Freedom from disease is becoming an increasingly important attribute in relation to quarantine requirements imposed in promising export markets such as the Middle East.
  • Micropropagation provides a method of rapid multiplication. In addition to its general significance as a means of achieving dramatic increases in quantity it confers specific benefits. Production of commercial quantities of a new variety can be achieved by manual micropropagation in approximately 50% of the time required by conventional methods. The facility to rapidly build up the numbers of new varieties is important even for species, such as vines, that are easily propagated by cutting.
  • micropropagation technique enables the more productive use of space. Subculturing is conducive to the achievement of a pleasingly high rate of utilisation of laboratory space. Better utilization of glasshouses and plant "hardening" space is also encouraged. Where seasonal markets are being served, rapid multiplication of varieties avoids the necessity to leave unoccupied space in stock houses for protracted periods while numbers are being built up. Operation can be continued at any time of year under controlled conditions of temperature, light cycle and nutrient balance. Culture storage or reduced temperature can be used to reduce growth rate to produce synchronised high output for seasonal demand.
  • micropropagation to a species requires the identification of a satisfactory relationship between the plant material, culture medium and incubation conditions.
  • the range of species for which a standard procedure for micropropagation has been devised is rapidly increasing with a consequent growth in the potential area in commercial application.
  • Involvement of Australian and overseas nurserymen in micropropagation has greatly increased in the last six years.
  • Two main approaches have been adopted. The first involves integration of a laboratory into an existing nursery followed by enormous expansion of the nursery. Alternatively, a laboratory is established and plants in culture are sold to other nurseries. After a slow start the demand from nurseries and growers for micropropagated plants is rapidly increasing.
  • Roots develop when a sample of the shoots are subcultured to a rooting medium (RM) in a petri dish or similar container.
  • RM rooting medium
  • the plants are usually despatched in stacks of containers.
  • the recipient removes them from the containers under non-sterile conditions and 'hardens* them to outside conditions in a high humidity environment.
  • Subculturing is usually performed in a transfer chamber where the shoots are removed from their containers with sterile forceps, dissected, usually quite roughly, with a sterile scalpel into small clumps of shoots or single shoots and then placed onto fresh medium. Pieces cut so as to not contain sufficient whole meristem cells will grow slowly or not at all. Plants containing few or no whole fully differentiated cells are liable to not regenerate as "true to type" or clonal plants.
  • the largest cost in the procedure is the labor involved in sub-culturing the shoots from one medium to another.
  • the cost of sub-culturing is at least three times the cost of all the other procedures. The reason for this can be illustrated in terms of the sub-culturing of trees.
  • the performance of 5,000 transfer operations per day is an absolute maximum for a technician. Similar productivity constraints apply to these operations whether conducted at macroscopic or microscopic scales.
  • sterility control is incomplete, so that contamination losses can be very substantial. Cleaning, preparation, control and movement of plant containers between cutting, storage and hardening areas and transfers to hardening medium are also labour intense.
  • this invention consists in a method for dividing plant materials with an optically detectable structure according to rules related to the structure of the plant material, said method comprising the steps of scanning the plant material to generate an image signal representative of said structure; determining division locations from the image signal according to said rules; and generating a division signal indicative of said division locations.
  • the method further comprises the steps of processing the image signal to produce a co-ordinate map of the structure; identifying co-ordinates corresponding to selected features of said structure; and determining said division locations from said co-ordinates corresponding to selected features.
  • the image signal can represent a two tone image of the plant material in a two dimensional array of pixels, each pixel being assigned a background tone or a plant tone.
  • the image signal is processed by systematically determining the tone assigned to each pixel in the array and recording the co-ordinates of plant tones to form the co-ordinate map.
  • Co-ordinates corresponding to selected features, for example branch tips and nodes, are identified by determining whether previously examined adjacent pixels represent background or plant.
  • the systematic determination of the tone assigned to each image is conducted sequentially in each of two different directions and the co-ordinates of selected features identified in each direction are averaged. In this way account can be taken of branch tips that may not be otherwise identified because the branches slope away from the direction that the pixels are scanned.
  • a tip of a branch is identified when the branch is formed by a minimum of 20 pixels. This prevents identification of the tips of very small branches or the identification of a small piece of foreign matter as a branch tip and in most angiosperms ensure that each piece subsequently divided from the plant both meristem and fully differentiated cells.
  • this invention consists in an apparatus for dividing plant materials with an optically detectable structure according to rules related to the structure of the plant material, said apparatus comprising: image signal generating means to scan the plant material and generate a signal representative of the plant structure; processing means to determine division locations from the image signal according to said rules and to generate a division signal indicative of said division locations; and cutting means responsive to said division signal to divide the plant material at said locations.
  • the processing means produces a co-ordinate map of the structure from the image signal and identifies co-ordinates corresponding to selected features of the structure.
  • the image signal is generated by a Charge Coupled Device interfaced to processing means comprising a microcomputer.
  • the cutting means is preferably a selectively operable cutting blade mounted on a robot arm for movement over the plant material.
  • the cutting blade can have a circular or oval cross sectional shape to cut a selected quantity of plant material at each actuation.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic perspective view of an apparatus according to the invention
  • Figure 2 is a flow chart of a Down Scan routine used in the apparatus of Figure 1;
  • Figure 3 is a flow chart of a Process Pixel routine forming part of the routine shown in Figure 2.
  • the apparatus of this invention comprises a charge coupled device camera (CCD) 11 forming an image signal generating means.
  • the CCD 11 is a Thomson-CSF CCD camera with a standard RSI70 video interface.
  • the CCD 11 is connected via a Chorus Data Systems series 1000 video capture board 15 to an Olivetti M24 microcomputer 16.
  • a signal representative of the structure of a plant 12 positioned on a continuous belt 13 and scanned by CCD 11 is captured by board 15 and the signal is digitised before being down loaded into the main memory of microcomputer 16.
  • the plant is scanned against a background of contrasting colour and scanning of the plant 12 by CCD 11 is controlled by the microcomputer 16. In this way CCD 11 is actuated to provide a single image of plant 12.
  • the digitised signal stored in microcomputer 12 is representative of a two tone image of the plant in a two dimensional pixel array of 640 pixels horizontally and 400 pixels vertically.
  • the tone assigned to each pixel corresponds to either background or plant.
  • the digitised image signal is processed by systematically determining the tone assigned to each pixel in the array and recording the co-ordinates of plant tones in a data base to form a co-ordinate map.
  • co-ordinates corresponding to the tips of branches and nodes where branches join are identified and stored in a data base.
  • the systematic processing of each pixel in the array is conducted twice, once using a Down Scan routine and once using an Up Scan routine.
  • the Downscan and Upscan routines process the pixels sequentially in different directions and the co-ordinates representing branch tips and nodes obtained by each routine are averaged.
  • Figure 2 is a flow chart of the Down Scan routine which shows that the image is processed pixel by pixel starting from the upper left hand corner and working downwardly row by row.
  • the Up Scan routine (not shown) is substantially identical but processes each pixel working upwardly row by row.
  • Figure 3 is a flow chart of a Process Pixel routine which is a sub routine of the Down Scan routine.
  • the first step in the Process Pixel routine is a backscan for an upwardly sloping branch. This is required because the same branch identifying technique used in the process pixel routine is based on determining whether background or branch is represented by the pixel to left, the pixel above and to the left and the pixel immediately above the pixel being processed. A branch sloping upwardly to the left can therefore intially be identified as a new branch until a pixel immediately above the pixel being processed is discovered to be a pixel representing plant. When this is determined the backscan is implemented to relabel plant pixels immediately to the left as being in the same branch as the plant pixel identified immediately above the pixel being processed.
  • the apparatus further comprises cutting means in the form of a cutter mechanism 17 operable by the microcomputer 16 to cut the plant 12 at the determined cutting locations.
  • the cutter mechanism 17 includes tubular cutting blade 18 of circular cross section mounted in a double acting solenoid 19.
  • Cutter 18 is moved to cut the plant 12 by selective actuation of solenoid 19 under control of microcomputer 16.
  • the solenoid 19 is mounted on a frame 20 for movement over the plant 12 by two step motors 21.
  • the step motors 21 are independently operable by dimension signals indicative of division locations which are generated by microcomputer 16 and each move the solenoid 19 in perpendicular directions. In this way cutter 18 can be moved to any position in a cutting area bounded by the limits of travel of the frame 20.
  • the position of the cutter 18 at each instant is determined by microcomputer 16 by storage of the number and direction of actuating pulses supplied to step motors 21.
  • a sensor 22 is provided to allow periodic checking of actual and calculated cutter position.
  • the alignment of plants 12 under cutter mechanism 19 can be achieved by means of reference holes 14 in continuous belt 13 on which the plant 12 is positioned.
  • the cutting locations determined by microcomputer 16 are the centres of nodes and a point 4 mm from the tips of branches.
  • the cutting blade has a diameter of 5 mm and is centred on these cutting locations so that a selected quantity of plant material is cut at each actuation. In the case of most angiosperms this ensures that the divided plant contains sufficient meristem and differentiated cell growth to ensure monclonal propogation.

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Un procédé et un appareil permettent de diviser des matériaux végétaux ayant une structure optiquement détectable selon des règles ayant trait à la structure. Les matériaux végétaux sont balayés par une caméra à dispositif de couplage de charge relié via une carte de saisie vidéo à un micro-ordinateur. Un signal d'image émis par la caméra à dispositif de couplage de charge représente une image à deux tons des matériaux végétaux dans une série bidimensionnelle de points où chaque point reçoit un ton de fond ou un ton végétal. Le signal d'image est traité en déterminant systématiquement le ton attribué à chaque point dans la série et les coordonnées des points représentant la plante sont entreposées dans une base de données pour former une carte de coordonnées des matériaux végétaux. Des caractéristiques sélectionnées de la plante, par exemple la pointe des branches et les noeuds de jonction des branches, sont identifiés et les coordonnées correspondant à ces caractéristiques sont entreposées afin de déterminer les emplacements des divisions. Le micro-ordinateur commande une lame de coupe sélectivement actionnable à section transversale circulaire et agencée de façon à se déplacer au-dessus des matériaux végétaux. Le couteau se déplace jusqu'à une position au-dessus de noeuds adjacents aux pointes des branches et est actionné par le micro-ordinateur pour couper une quantité sélectionnée de matériaux végétaux.
PCT/AU1986/000136 1985-05-15 1986-05-14 Procede et appareil de division de materiaux vegetaux Ceased WO1986006576A1 (fr)

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EP0303472A1 (fr) * 1987-08-12 1989-02-15 Albright & Wilson Limited Propagation de plantes
NL9000803A (nl) * 1990-04-05 1991-11-01 Visser S Gravendeel Holding Werkwijze voor het zijdelings aangrijpen van plantwortelkluiten.
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EP0303472A1 (fr) * 1987-08-12 1989-02-15 Albright & Wilson Limited Propagation de plantes
NL9000803A (nl) * 1990-04-05 1991-11-01 Visser S Gravendeel Holding Werkwijze voor het zijdelings aangrijpen van plantwortelkluiten.
WO1991018499A1 (fr) * 1990-06-07 1991-12-12 British Technology Group Ltd Appareil de coupe et procedes relatifs a la micropropagation
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US9271448B2 (en) 2010-06-09 2016-03-01 Basf Se Method for cultivating sugar cane
US9615503B2 (en) 2011-09-23 2017-04-11 Basf Se Method for cultivating sugar cane
WO2013160241A1 (fr) 2012-04-26 2013-10-31 Basf Se Procédé et système pour extraire des bourgeons d'une tige de graminée
WO2013160242A1 (fr) 2012-04-26 2013-10-31 Basf Se Procédé et système pour extraire des bourgeons d'une tige de graminée
WO2015128163A1 (fr) 2014-02-28 2015-09-03 Basf Se Procédé de détection d'un noeud et/ou d'un bourgeon sur une tige d'une plante graminée

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