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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 15, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kalidas Shetty, Amherst, MA (US);
Assignee:
University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435431 ; 435410 ; 504118 ; 424520 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to the discovery that fishery by-products, in particular fish protein hydrolysate, can be used as a source of nutrients in plant tissue culture. A composition can be made by mixing a plant tissue culture medium, a fishery by-product, and a buffer compound. The composition is used for culturing plant tissues, to promote somatic embryogenesis, reduce vitrification (hyperhydricity) in cultured tissues, and to enhance acclimation of plants by both reducing the amount of time required for acclimation, and by increasing the survival rate of plants through the acclimation process.