4462995 Pyridyl phosphorothioate compositions and their use as anabolic agents

PATENT ABSTRACTS

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METHOD FOR INCREASING THE ACCESSIBILITY OF CELLULOSE IN L I G N O C E L L U L O S I C MATERIALS, PARTICULARLY HARDWOODS AGRICULTURAL RESIDUES AND THE LIKE

anabolic response produced is exhibited in one or more of the following ways: (all increased growth rate, (b) increased milk production. (c) increased protein content, (d) improved reproductive performance. (e) increased fiber production, and (f) improved feed conversion efficiency in animals. Also claimed are feed compositions containing the above named compounds.

Patric Foody, St Laurent. Quebec. Canada This invention comprises a method for increasing the accessibility of cellulose in lignocellulosic materials to chemical or biochemical reagents. The material is steam cooked for a predetermined time, then rapidly depressurized. A venting sequence is used to remove volatiles from the reactor. Optimal cooking times for normal and acid catalyzed cooking are disclosed, according to the discovery of a novel set of governing equations, wherein optimum cooking times can be determined as a time integration of reactor pressure.

4463522 SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR PLANT TISSUE CULTURE PROPAGATION Eckhar Lindemann

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This invention relates to a method for rapid plant propagation through tissue culture, which method comprises commutating a sterile explant to provide a multiplicity ofexplant particles each capable of reproducing the parent plant, suspending the reproducing explant particles in a fluid medium having a viscosity sufficiently high to prevent rapid settling of the explant particles, aseptically dispensing said suspended explant particles at spaced intervals into a presterilized growth supporting bed comprising a natural or synthetic soil mix or a gelled growth supporting substrate, such as agar; aseptically enclosing the resultant reproducing explant particle inoculated bed in a light transparent, moisture retaining plant growth space providing envelope, allowing propagation of rooted plants from said explant particles, and then hardening off the resultant plants by providing an opening in said envelope of a size sufficient to allow loss of humidity from the envelope at a rate sufficiently slow to prevent irreversible drying of leaves or a substantial degree of shock. The invention also relates to the apparatus employed in the process.

PYRIDYL PHOSPHOROTHIOATE COMPOSITIONS AND THEIR USE AS ANABOLIC AGENTS

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4461766 METHOD MOLTING

FOR INDUCING IN LAYING HENS

Hector F DeLuca, Heinrich K Schnoes, Leslie E Hart assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation The invention provides a method for inducing molting in egg-laying hens as a means for e x tending their productive egg-laying life by administering to the hens an effective amount of a side chain-hydroxylated vitamin D3 compound.

Douglas R Ware, Theo Hymas assigned to The Dow Chemical Company A method of producing an anabolic response in animals has been discovered. The method is administering an anabolically effective amount of O,O-diethyl, O-3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridyl phosphorothioate; O, O-dimethyl. 0-3,5,6trichloro-2-pyridyl phosphorothioate: physiologically acceptable salts or combinations of the above named compounds to animals. The

METHOD FOR PROPAGATING PLANTS FROM TISSUE CULTURES John A Howard assigned to Stauffer Chemical Company Propagation of plants, particularly solanaceous plants, from tissue cultures is improved by the presence of exogenous carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.