Monsanto Technology LLC

Alan Jackson

Brian J Forinash

Matthew J Weis

Michael Joseph Dayawon

Ryan K Tellor

Graham Mcgregor

Cheryl Florida

Dale Burns

Jeffrey A Lickenbrock

Martin Gaudet

Scott Essner

Mark J Menius

Kelly Boddy

A seed pod shatter test system for determining the resistance to seed pod shattering in various plants, wherein the system comprises a mobile platform that is structured and operable to traverse at least one row of plants growing in plot, and at least one plant engaging head mounted to a front of the mobile platform. The at least one plant engaging head is structured and operable to condition each of the plurality of plants by contacting each of the plants in the row(s) with a predetermined amount of force as the mobile platform traverse the row(s) of plants. The system additionally comprises a data collections and analysis system that is structured and operable to determine an amount of seed pod shattering that occurred in the plurality of plants as a result of the conditioning.

System and method for automated phenotyping of shattered seed pods

A high throughput system for sorting a plurality of different small object types into a plurality of cells of a plurality of small object cassettes is provided. The system comprises: at least one small object cassette having a plurality of small object cells; an automated conveyor system for transporting the cassette(s) from a loading location to a unloading location on the conveyor system; at least one cassette filling station disposed over the conveyor system such that the conveyor system extends under a small object distribution subsystem of each respective cassette filling station; and a computer based central control system structured and operable to control various operations of the conveyor system and each cassette filling station.

High throughput cassette filler

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St. Louis, MO, United States of America

Alan Jackson