Methods, kits, and treatment compositions for treating agricultural products to reduce or preventing wildfire smoke taint or other types of taint, including treated agricultural products, are provided. One or more treatment compositions effective in reducing or preventing wildfire smoke taint are preferably applied to agricultural products such as, for example, wine grapes prior to and/or during wildfire smoke exposure.
Shelf-life extender compositions, kits, and methods are provided for use with live plant items such as, for example, rootless plant cuttings and plant liners. The shelf-life extender composition is preferably applied on at least a portion of the surfaces of a live plant item prior to shipping the treated live plant item.
A01N 3/00 - Preservation of plants or parts thereof, e.g. inhibiting evaporation, improvement of the appearance of leaves; Grafting wax
B65B 25/02 - Packaging agricultural or horticultural products
B65D 85/52 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for living organisms, articles or materials sensitive to changes of environment or atmospheric conditions, e.g. land animals, birds, fish, water plants, non-aquatic plants, flower bulbs, cut flowers or foliage for growing bulbs
Methods and systems for selectively applying a treatment to a plant item and/or managing a plant item supply chain are provided. The method may include conveying, in an industrial processing line, at least one plant item in the batch of plant items to a sensing region having one or more sensors, assessing, with the one or more sensors and a computing device, one or more properties of the at least one plant item associated with ripeness and/or another attribute, optionally conveying the at least one plant item to a treatment region, optionally determining a treatment to apply to the at least one plant item based on the assessed one or more properties; and optionally applying, in the treatment region, the treatment to the at least one plant item.
Barrier coating compositions, wash compositions, and other compositions for perishables and methods, systems, kits, and coated perishables relating thereto are provided. Fresh fruits and vegetables, in particular, can benefit from the teachings of the present disclosure. Preferred barrier coating compositions include an active hydrogen component that preferably includes one or more of a lipid, a polysaccharide, a polypeptide, or a combination thereof. In addition to providing active hydrogen groups, the active hydrogen component preferably functions as a binder and/or barrier component. The barrier coating compositions may include one or more materials to facilitate crosslinking of the resulting coating.
Methods, kits, and treatment compositions for treating agricultural products to reduce or preventing wildfire smoke taint or other types of taint, including treated agricultural products, are provided. One or more treatment compositions effective in reducing or preventing wildfire smoke taint are preferably applied to agricultural products such as, for example, wine grapes prior to and/or during wildfire smoke exposure.
A01N 25/02 - Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators, characterised by their forms, or by their non-active ingredients or by their methods of application; Substances for reducing the noxious effect of the active ingredients to organisms other than pests containing liquids as carriers, diluents or solvents
A23B 7/16 - Coating with a protective layer; Compositions or apparatus therefor
Methods and systems for selectively applying a treatment to a plant item is provided. The method may include conveying, in an industrial processing line, at least one plant item in the batch of plant items to a sensing region having one or more sensors, assessing, with the one or more sensors and a computing device, one or more properties of the at least one plant item associated with ripeness and/or another attribute, conveying the at least one plant item to a treatment region, determining a treatment to apply to the at least one plant item based on the assessed one or more properties; and applying, in the treatment region, the treatment to the at least one plant item.
Shelf-life extender compositions, kits, and methods are provided for use with live plant items such as, for example, rootless plant cuttings and plant liners. The shelf-life extender composition is preferably applied on at least a portion of the surfaces of a live plant item prior to shipping the treated live plant item.
A method of selectively applying a coating treatment and/or a wash treatment to a plant item is provided. The method may include — in an industrial processing line — conveying the plant item to a sensing region having one or more sensors. With the one or more sensors, the method may include determining a value associated with a parameter of the plant item. The plant item may be conveyed to a treatment region (e.g., a wash or coating region) of the industrial processing line. When the value equals or exceeds a first threshold, the method may include applying a first treatment to the plant item; and when the value is less than the first threshold, the method may include applying a second treatment to the plant item, where the second treatment is different than the first treatment.
G06Q 30/06 - Buying, selling or leasing transactions
G05B 19/4155 - Numerical control (NC), i.e. automatically operating machines, in particular machine tools, e.g. in a manufacturing environment, so as to execute positioning, movement or co-ordinated operations by means of programme data in numerical form characterised by programme execution, i.e. part programme or machine function execution, e.g. selection of a programme
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BARRIER COATING COMPOSITIONS FOR PERISHABLES AND METHODS, KITS AND COATED ITEMS RELATING THERETO
Barrier coating compositions, wash compositions, and other compositions for perishables and methods, systems, kits, and coated perishables relating thereto are provided. Fresh fruits and vegetables, in particular, can benefit from the teachings of the present disclosure. Barrier coating compositions include an active hydrogen component that includes one or more of a lipid, a polysaccharide, a polypeptide, or a combination thereof and at least 50% by weight of water. In addition to providing active hydrogen groups, the active hydrogen component preferably functions as a binder and/or barrier component. The barrier coating compositions may include one or more materials to facilitate crosslinking of the resulting coating and optionally an antimicrobial agent. Method comprising the coating of at least a portion of a surface of an edible perishable item with the aqueous barrier composition, and kit comprising the barrier coating composition and instructions of use.
A01N 3/00 - Preservation of plants or parts thereof, e.g. inhibiting evaporation, improvement of the appearance of leaves; Grafting wax
A01N 25/02 - Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators, characterised by their forms, or by their non-active ingredients or by their methods of application; Substances for reducing the noxious effect of the active ingredients to organisms other than pests containing liquids as carriers, diluents or solvents
A01N 37/00 - Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing organic compounds containing a carbon atom having three bonds to hetero atoms with at the most two bonds to halogen, e.g. carboxylic acids
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