Methods for preserving viability of plant tissues such as plant embryos are provided herein. Also included are methods for storing genomic DNA and/or molecular marker assay materials in an oil bilayer as part of a high-throughput molecular characterization system. Moreover, plant embryos may be treated while in an oil matrix. The treatment may include chromosome doubling, Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, or herbicide selection as part of an embryo rescue process.

Disclosed is the seed of a novel soybean variety, designated 01G13R1, a sample of which is deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-123713. Also disclosed are plants, or parts thereof, grown from the seed of the variety, plants having the morphological and physiological characteristics of the 01G13R1 variety, and methods of using the plant or parts thereof in a soybean breeding program.

The invention provides a new and distinct hybrid variety of pepper, NUN 70039 PPH or NUN 70041 PPH or NUN 70042 PPH.

The invention provides seed and plants of pepper hybrid SV5873HE and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid SV5873HE and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another pepper plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.

Cosmos Bipinnatus cotyledons are isolated as explants, and the isolated explants are cultured onto a regeneration medium to obtain regenerated Cosmos Bipinnatus shoots. The regeneration medium optionally includes a basal medium, a cytokinin, an ethylene action inhibitor, and a nitrogen source.

An edible bean seed designated as <11278> or COWBOY, a sample of the edible bean deposited under accession no. PI 678951 is disclosed. Methods of using the edible bean seed designated as <11278> or COWBOY for breeding new varieties of bean seed are also disclosed, as well as seeds of the edible bean seed designated as <11278> or COWBOY.

This invention relates to methods for the transformation of Setaria species such as Setaria viridis and transformed plants produced according to the method. Specifically, this invention relates to direct transformation of callus derived from mature embryos using Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, and plants regenerated from the transformed callus tissue. The methods comprise utilizing Setaria mature embryos as the source of plant material for callus induction; induced calli can be infected by Agrobacterium hosting an appropriate vector. Transgenic plants are regenerated from transgenic calli grown under conditions favoring growth of transformed cells while substantially inhibiting growth of non-transformed cells. These methods provide for significantly increased plant transformation efficiency with minimal ratio of escapes.

Compositions, kits, and methods for preparing a plant cell composition are provided. Compositions, kits, and methods for engineering plant cells are also provided. In some cases, compositions, kits, and methods provided herein can be used to produce cotton.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to chimeric pepper plants that produce pepper fruit having a yellow and red striped color, and to seeds that produce the chimeric pepper plants. Other aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods of generating and selecting chimeric pepper plants that produce pepper fruit having a yellow and red striped color, as well as methods of limiting propagation of off-type pepper plant progeny that produce pepper fruit of a single color.

An apparatus, system and method for removing and treating contaminated materials on a bottom of a body of water and introducing growth packets to revitalize the treated bottom of the body of water. The structure may comprise a vessel with an open face. The vessel may be lowered down to the bottom of the body of water with the face facing down. As a result, the vessel and the bottom form an isolated space. The structure may comprise at least one agitating device(s) for stirring up the materials inside the vessel so as to form a mixture containing the sediment materials which in turn contain the contaminants. Multiple at least one pipe(s) may be coupled to the vessel for transporting the mixture out of the vessel for processing (filtering, treating with chemicals, etc.) so as to neutralize or eliminate the contaminants in the mixture. Then, the treated mixture can be returned to the inside of the vessel via the at least one pipe(s).