MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641062154 A) filed by Sr University, Warangal, Telangana, on May 15, for 'method for selecting a cereal or legume plant having improved grain structural integrity.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Banoth Madhu.
The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method for selecting a cereal or legume plant having improved grain structural integrity by identifying 101 a developing reproductive organ during a pre-physiological-maturity window, applying 102 one or more calibrated, sub-damaging mechanical impulses using a clamp on actuator and a microcontroller, recording a mechanical response waveform with the strain gauge and displacement transducer, computing 104 a Grain Integrity Score from extracted waveform features, calibrating the Grain Integrity Score using a training population and harvest-time grain traits, selecting 105 plants for advancement based on the Grain Integrity Score, a device is provided for phenotyping in a field environment, a breeding method uses the Grain Integrity Score to select and advance superior cereal or legume varieties."
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