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US 5,476,523 AGranted
Moss seedling and method of producing dense moss mat therefrom
AssigneeThe Hiraoka Environmental Science Laboratory
InventorShozaburoh Hiraoka
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Abstract
Plant tissues of mosses such as cut tissue pieces, gametophores, calluses, protonemata, spores, gemmae, subterranean stems or rhizoids are purely cultured in a culture medium to generate seedlings (cultigen) corresponding to plumules, and the seedlings are sown onto a nursery at a desired colony density, followed by appropriate caring.
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A method for producing a dense mat of moss comprising:
- (a) culturing pure plant tissues of said moss in a culture medium to generate seedlings of said plant tissues;
- (b) sowing said seedlings onto a nursery at a density of about 5-20 seedlings per cm.sup.2 ;
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- (c) nurturing said seedlings until maturity.
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