Abstract: The invention features a smokeless tobacco composition that includes a tobacco selected from: Nicotiana acaulis, Nicotiana acuminata, Nicotiana acuminata var. multiflora, Nicotiana africana, Nicotiana alata, Nicotiana amplexicaulis, Nicotiana arentsii, Nicotiana attenuata, Nicotiana benavidesii, Nicotiana benthamiana, Nicotiana bigelovii, Nicotiana bonariensis, Nicotiana cavicola, Nicotiana clevelandii, Nicotiana cordifolia, Nicotiana corymbosa, Nicotiana debneyi, Nicotiana excelsior, Nicotiana forgetiana, Nicotiana fragrans, Nicotiana glauca, Nicotiana glutinosa, Nicotiana goodspeedii, Nicotiana gossei, Nicotiana hybrid, Nicotiana ingulba, Nicotiana knightiana, Nicotiana langsdorffii, Nicotiana linearis, Nicotiana longiflora, Nicotiana maritima, Nicotiana megalosiphon, Nicotiana miersii, Nicotiana noctiflora, Nicotiana nudicaulis, Nicotiana obtusifolia, Nicotiana occidentalis, Nicotiana occidentalis subsp.

Abstract: The invention features a blended smokeless tobacco composition that includes two of the following tobaccos: Nicotiana acaulis, Nicotiana acuminata, Nicotiana acuminata var. multiflora, Nicotiana africana, Nicotiana alata, Nicotiana amplexicaulis, Nicotiana arentsii, Nicotiana attenuata, Nicotiana benavidesii, Nicotiana benthamiana, Nicotiana bigelovii, Nicotiana bonariensis, Nicotiana cavicola, Nicotiana clevelandii, Nicotiana cordifolia, Nicotiana corymbosa, Nicotiana debneyi, Nicotiana excelsior, Nicotiana forgetiana, Nicotiana fragrans, Nicotiana glauca, Nicotiana glutinosa, Nicotiana goodspeedii, Nicotiana gossei, Nicotiana hybrid, Nicotiana ingulba, Nicotiana kawakamii, Nicotiana knightiana, Nicotiana langsdorffii, Nicotiana linearis, Nicotiana longiflora, Nicotiana maritima, Nicotiana megalosiphon, Nicotiana miersii, Nicotiana noctiflora, Nicotiana nudicaulis, Nicotiana obtusifolia, Nicotiana occidentalis, Nicotiana occidentalis subsp.

Abstract: A disposable bird feeder (10) is convertible from a bird seed container configuration (20). Disposable bird feeder (10) includes a reversibly deployable panel system (50) deployable from a position enclosing at least a portion of the receptacle housing (60) with which it is in substantially contiguous contact, to a deployed position extending radially outward at a predetermined angle from receptacle housing (60), defining a bird feeder configuration. Additionally, reversibly deployable panel system (50) includes an integrally formed stiffener (90) foldably engageable with reversibly deployable panel system (50).

Abstract: A process for the production of high purity hybrid Brassica seed, comprising (a) selecting a heterozygous, maximally self-incompatible parent plant, (b) cloning said selected plant to produce a first cloned parental line, the plants of which are both maximally self-incompatible and maximally clonal-incompatible, (c) crossing plants of said parental line with plants of a second parental line, and (d) collecting high purity hybrid seed from said first cloned parental line. The second parental line may also have been obtained by cloning a second maximally self-incompatible plant to obtain a second cloned parental line, the plants of which are both maximally self-incompatible and maximally clonal-incompatible. The second parent plant may be homozygous or heterozygous. The high purity hybrid seed may be collected from said second maximally self-incompatible cloned parental line or alternatively from both first and second maximally self-incompatible cloned parental lines.

Abstract: A process for commercially producing high purity hybrid cabbage seed. One (or both) of the parental lines is rendered sib-incompatible by cloning a maximally self-incompatible parent plant so that the resulting line (or lines), consisting of cloned plants, is sib-as well as self-incompatible. The two parental lines, one or both of which is clonally derived, may then be crossed by natural pollination without encountering inbreeding of the cloned parental line (or lines). Prior difficulties in maintaining the parental inbred breeding lines are eliminated.

Abstract: New hybrid seed varieties and plants therefrom are rapidly developed and commercially produced. New hybrid seeds can be readied for market in as little as three years, compared to the conventional eight to twelve years required for preexisting techniques of hybrid seed production. Plant breeders are no longer limited to homozygous parents in the production of new hybrids.