Patent ID: 8314701

Claim:
A method for the traceability of mother plants having trunks, after field planting and during a whole productive and commercial cycle, by means of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Tag technology in the nursery sector, comprising: the selection and cultivating of mother plants, having trunks wherein said mother plants are producers of scions; the marking of mother plants by the grafting of radio-frequency microchips containing information relating to each mother plant itself, directly in a trunk of said plant; the application of the microchip on the bulk of scions, produced by each mother plant; the application of the microchip in the bulk of graft-holders on which information relating to the seed is to be inserted; the insertion of the microchip directly in the trunk suitably sealed at the moment of the grafting of the scion on the graft-holder for the production of the final plant; the handling and display of the traceability data by means of a software system installed on a palm-top PC, having a RFID reader/writer.