Patent ID: 9743591
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: A01H,G05B,G06K,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method for tracking the position and status of plants or plant parts in a greenhouse comprising: pollinating a first individual parent plant with pollen from a second individual parent plant, each of the first individual parent and second individual parent plants having an associated identification; associating an identification tag with a data record including the identifications of the first individual parent plant and the second individual parent plant; attaching the identification tag to seeds produced from pollinating the first individual parent plant with the second individual parent plant; harvesting the seeds from the first individual parent plant; moving the harvested seeds and the attached identification tag to a harvest area; detecting the presence of the identification tag in the harvest area with an interrogation system, the interrogation system receiving an identification signal generated by the identification tag in the harvest area, the presence of the identification tag in the harvest area indicating that the attached seeds have been harvested; and updating the data record to indicate the seeds have been harvested.