Nicholi L Bajjalieh

US Patent:

6844194, Jan 18, 2005

Filed:

Aug 21, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/934232

Inventors:

Nicholi L. Bajjalieh - Decatur IL, US
Thomas R. Boyd - Jersey Shore PA, US

Assignee:

Doebler's Hybrids, Inc. - Jersey Shore PA

International Classification:

G01N 3302

US Classification:

436 20, 436 86, 436 95, 436164, 436171

Abstract:

A corn plant is evaluated by a six-step method. The first step is to select a population of mature corn plants to be evaluated. A limited number of representative plants from the population are then selected. The representative plants are then harvested by cutting them near the ground. The plants are then ground into a homogeneous mixture. A sample of the homogeneous mixture is then analyzed in a near infrared spectrometer. The analysis is then compared with an existing correlation between near infrared analyses and wet-test chemistry tested nutritional compositional characteristics to predict the compositional characteristics of the corn plant population.