Patent ID: 8437874
Filing Date: 2013-05-07
Classification: A01G,A01H,G01N

Abstract:
1. A system for processing plant material samples, the system comprising: a controller; a plant-material sampling device configured to communicate with the controller and to read an identifier of a plant, having a removable magazine, and for taking at least one plant sample from a plurality of plants, placing such samples in the magazine, and tracking the identity of the plant from which each sample is taken; and a transfer station configured to hold, at a plurality of positions, a plurality of magazines and a plurality of trays such that the positions of the plurality of magazines are mirrored by the positions of the plurality of trays, to read an identifier of each magazine, to read an identifier of each tray, to map storage locations for each one of the plurality of magazines to storage locations of one of the plurality of trays, and to sequentially unload plant samples from the plurality of magazines to the plurality of trays.