Patent ID: 7207140
Filing Date: 2007-04-24
Classification: A01G,A01H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of producing grass plantlets as a vegetative propagating material useful in the replication and cultivation of both seeded and vegetative grass cultivars, comprising: a. harvesting, from a locus having a natural or artificial growing surface thereon, a juvenile sod less than or equal to three months old together with growing medium in which the sod was growing; b. physically separating as a first separation step, said juvenile sod into a vegetative fraction and a growing medium fraction without damage to meristematic tissue of said vegetative fraction; c. separating further, as a second separation step, said vegetative fraction obtained in step b) to isolate grass plantlets, each plantlet comprised of root, stem, and leaf tissue and without damage to meristematic tissue; and d. recycling said growing medium separated in step b) by returning said growing medium to the locus having said growing surface thereon, said growing medium to be reused in subsequent rounds of producing more grass plantlets and sods grown therefrom, wherein steps a)–d) are conducted directly at the locus having said growing surface thereon.