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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 29, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
John Flanagan, Neshanic Station, NJ (US);
Helen Anderson, St. Charles, MO (US);
Frank Miskiel, San Diego, CA (US);
You-Lung Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01C 1/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01C 1/06 ;
Abstract
A seed coating comprising gellan gum is disclosed along with a process which comprises admixing gellan gum and water under effective shear conditions to prepare an aqueous gellan gum coating composition thereof whereby the aqueous gellan gum coating composition may be applied in an adherent fashion to a seed to form a gellan gum coated seed. A gellan gum seed coating composition may indicate one or more bioactive(s) and optionally one or more colors.