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Four systems have been proposed to facilitate the bulk handling and delivery of in vitro-derived somatic embryos: fluid drilling (Drew 1979), encapsulation of somatic embryos in alginate gel (Redenbaugh et al. 1986), desiccation of somatic embryos (Gray et al. 1987), or desiccation of somatic embryos encapsulated in water-soluble resin (Kitto and Janick 1985).
Research supported in part by a Delaware Research Partnership Grant which was funded jointly by the State of Delaware and the Aqualon Group, Wilmington, DE 19899, USA
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Kitto, S.L., Pill, W.G., Molloy, D.M. (1995). Fluid Drilling as a Delivery System for Somatic Embryo-Derived Plantlets. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Somatic Embryogenesis and Synthetic Seed I. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 30. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03091-2_12
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