US Patent Issued to Sam Houston State University on Jan. 13 for "Nondestructive real-time test and detection of gall-forming plant-parasitic nematodes" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,877, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, Texas).

"Nondestructive real-time test and detection of gall-forming plant-parasitic nematodes" was invented by Junkun Ma (Spring, Texas), Autumn Smith-Herron (Huntsville, Texas), Faruk Yildiz (Spring, Texas) and Recayi Pecen (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-destructive real-time plant root imaging and analysis system to detect gall-forming plant-parasitic nematodes is disclosed. The system includes a root imaging device based on a minirhizotron concept with customizations and additions such that it can be inserted into the soil in t...