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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2006
Narender Singh Nehra, Summerville, SC (US);
Mark Russell Rutter, Summerville, SC (US);
John Joseph Clark, Summerville, SC (US);
Jessica S. Sage, Summerville, SC (US);
Sydney Keith Seymour, Summerville, SC (US);
Timothy Joel Stout, Summerville, SC (US);
Ronald W. Winkles, Summerville, SC (US);
George W. Surritte, Summerville, SC (US);
Narender Singh Nehra, Summerville, SC (US);
Mark Russell Rutter, Summerville, SC (US);
John Joseph Clark, Summerville, SC (US);
Jessica S. Sage, Summerville, SC (US);
Sydney Keith Seymour, Summerville, SC (US);
Timothy Joel Stout, Summerville, SC (US);
Ronald W. Winkles, Summerville, SC (US);
George W. Surritte, Summerville, SC (US);
ArborGen, LLC, Summerville, SC (US);
Abstract
Described herein are methods and media for facilitating somatic embryogenesis and for collecting, conditioning, and transferring the washed embryos onto a substrate and into an environment suitable for conditioning the embryos for a desired period of time so they become germination-competent for plant production. The described plant embryo cleaning apparatus and method are used for preparing multiple plant embryos for plant production. The apparatus and method can use a cleaning fluid source, a fluid-conditioning system, a fluid-delivery structure, a cleaning station, an outlet mechanism, a negative pressure source, and a controller.