Weyerhaeuser Company Limited

Weyerhaeuser Nr Company

Mollie K Heilesen

William C Carlson

Jeffrey E Hartle

Paul G Gaddis

James A Grob

Katherine M Salatas

Manufactured seeds are disclosed that comprise a unit of totipotent plant tissue and a nutritive medium. The nutritive medium can contain a number of different components selected from the following: a gel solute, charcoal, a carbon source, urea, KNO, NHNO, CuCl, CuSO, KI, KHPO, CaCl, MgSO, NaEDTA, FeSO, ferric citrate, MnSO, MnCl, HBO, ZnSO, CoCl, NaMoO, (NH)MoO, thiamine, riboflavin, pyridoxine, HCl, Ca-pantothenate, nicotinic acid, biotin, folic acid, and myo-inositol. The nutritive medium can also include any of various protein amino acids, any of various polyamines, any of various oxygen-absorbing compounds, any of various non-protein amino acids, and/or a smoke suspension.

Nutritive media and manufactured seeds comprising same

A manufactured seed () is provided. The manufactured seed includes a first seed shell () and a first restraint () disposed within the first shell. The first restraint includes a cavity (), and at least two embryos () and () disposed within the manufactured seed.

Multi-embryo manufactured seed

The present invention relates to an improved coating for manufactured seeds wherein the coating is able to resist cracking at temperatures below about 1&#xb0; C. The coating usable with the present invention is comprised of a wax impregnated cellulose substrate wherein the wax composition is comprised substantially of paraffin hydrocarbon cellulose substrata having a Gaussian distribution of carbon chain length ranging from 21 carbons per chain to 40 carbons per chain and a maximum number of paraffin hydrocarbon chains having 31 carbons per chain. One aspect of the present invention is that it provides a wax formulation able to resist cracking at low temperatures and also a wax formulation with a desirable viscosity for commercial manufactured seed coat applications.

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Tacoma, WA, United States of America

Mollie K Heilesen