Patent ID: 7923249

Claim:
A process of priming somatic germinants of loblolly pine or radiata pine, which comprises: fully immersing somatic germinants of loblolly pine or radiata pine in a sterile liquid nutrient medium to form a sterile liquid nutrient medium containing the germinants, bubbling an oxygen-containing gas through the sterile liquid nutrient medium containing the germinants to form an aerated germinant-containing nutrient medium, exposing the aerated germinant-containing nutrient medium to light, continuing said immersing, bubbling and exposing to light to produce at least some successfully primed and autotrophic germinants in a germinant-containing nutrient medium that are adapted for subsequent planting and converting to viable seedlings, and removing said successfully primed and autotrophic germinants from the aerated germinant-containing nutrient medium.