Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies, PO Box 1625, Idaho Falls, ID 83415-2203

A -- FINISH DEVELOPMENT OF MANUFACTURE AND MARKET INVENTION FOR RAPID DEVELOPMENT AND TEST PLANT EMBRYOS Contact Dr. Robert S Cherry. Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies (LMIT), PO Box 1625, Idaho Falls, ID 83415-2203; a management and operating contractor for the Department of Energy (DOE) at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) is seeking licensees and research partners to finish development of and then manufacture and market an invention to rapidly develop and test plant embryos. LMIT has developed a first generation computer controlled embryo chamber that will maintain proper culture conditions and automatically vary the levels of plant hormones and nutrients to encourage the formation of numerous, healthy plant embryos. Many plants such as trees take years to reach sexual maturity, making strain improvement difficult using traditional breeding techniques. One way around this is somatic embryogenesis, a laboratory procedure that accelerates this process by stimulating tissue from selected trees or plants to form multitudes of embryos which can be germinated into fertile seedlings, all genetically identical. This can be done on wild-type plants or on genetically manipulated plant tissue. The LMIT invention is a system that can accelerate this process. Advantages of the LMIT invention are: 1) the elimination of manual changing of culture medium, 2) expectation for better yields of higher quality embryos, 3) easier conduction of experiments to optimize conditions, and 4) design can be scaled to easily grow many thousands of embryos. Interested parties must submit technical and financial capabilities information to: Dr Robert S Cherry, LMIT, PO Box 1625, Idaho Falls ID 83415-2203. This is not an opportunity to provide goods or services to LMIT or the DOE. (061)

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