Patent ID: 8173165

Claim:
A water-dispersible particle comprising: a nitrogen containing ingredient bioavailable to a targeted desirable plant as a fertilizer and present in an amount ranging from 5% to 99.9% by weight of the total dry weight of the particle and selected from the group consisting of: ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulfate and urea; and a binder component composed of a protein, glycoprotein, or lipoprotein, said binder component present in an amount ranging from 1% to 95% by weight of the total dry weight of the particle, the particle having a mean particle domain size of from 0.1 to 30 millimeters; the nitrogen containing ingredient and the binder component being intermixed, wherein one of the particle having the mean particle domain size of 0.5 millimeters upon contact with water causes particle dispersion into from 100 to 10,000 pieces in a time period of 30 seconds to 1 hour.