Methods of preventing flooding in manufactured seed

• Main Author: HARTLE, JEFFREY E
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.06.2014
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; NEW PLANTS OR PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TRAPPING

The invention provides methods of preventing flooding of a cavity within a shoot restraint of a manufactured seed by lowering the water potential of the nutritive media relative to the water potential of a plant embryo disposed within the cavity. A exemplary method may comprise the steps of: (a) ass...