Patents by Inventor Diane Gail Holmstrom

Diane Gail Holmstrom has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Methods for producing high yields of zygotic-like cotyledonary pine embryos utilizing media that include a disaccharide and glucose
    Patent number: 7598073
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for producing cotyledonary pine embryos. The methods of the invention each include the step of culturing embryogenic pine tissue in, or on, a medium comprising a disaccharide and glucose to yield cotyledonary pine embryos, wherein the disaccharide and glucose are each present in the medium at a concentration of less than 3 percent. The present invention also provides cotyledonary pine embryos prepared by a method of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Weyerhaeuser NR Company
    Inventors: Pramod K. Gupta, Diane Gail Holmstrom, Bonnie Larson