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Agscitech Inc.

Salam Awada

Rex Spendlove

Paul C Manning

Mohamed M Awada

Gene W Miller

A gas collection receptacle includes a segmented top portion and one or more side portions creating a volume for collecting gases. The gas collection receptacle, configured to float on a pond, lagoon, or other area, also includes interlocking side and end portions enabling multiple receptacles to connect, thus forming a substantially continuous covering.

Collection receptacles for gases

Collection receptacles fo gases

Biosurfactants produced by microbes are used to control pests. The biosurfactants can be produced by cultivating a biosurfactant-producing microbe, producing a fermentation broth, and obtaining the biosurfactant from the fermentation broth. Alternately, the biosurfactants can be produced in situ in the environment of the pests by applying a carbon substrate to the pests' environment, which permits naturally-occurring biosurfactant-producing microbes to grow and to generate the biosurfactants. The biosurfactants have pesticidal qualities, and can be used to control a variety of pests, while being biodegradable and otherwise avoiding adverse environmental effects that have often been associated with conventional synthetic pesticides.

Compositions and methods for controlling pests with glycolipids

Microbial biosurfactants as agents for controlling pests

A method of introducing treatment agents comprising medicine or nutrients into a tree, involving the boring of holes above ground into the trunk of the tree. Homogeneous plugs of solidified polyethylene glycol (PEG) with such treatment agents mixed therein are molded and inserted into the holes in the tree trunk and sealed with wax. The dissemination time of the treatment agent into the tree trunk is controlled by selection of the PEG's used, with higher molecular weights PEG's taking longer to dissolve and disseminate the treatment agent into the transpirational flow of the tree being treated than the lower molecular weight PEG's. The method leaves no foreign material such as plastic casings or cartridges within the tree trunk after treatment.

Dissolving polymer plug for introducing nutrients and medicinal materials into tree trunks

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Logan, UT, United States of America

Salam Awada