1. An ion exchange media comprising at least one flow path, said flow path comprising a plurality of alternating cation exchange zones and anion exchange zones, and said flow path being within a substantially nonporous resin transport framework.
2. The ion exchange media of claim 1, said cation exchange zones comprising cation resin and said anion exchange zones comprising anion resin, each of said cation exchange zones and said anion exchange zones being in contact with said transport framework.
3. The ion exchange media of claim 2, wherein said resin transport framework comprises a cation resin side and an anion resin side that meet at an interface.
4. The ion exchange media of claim 3, wherein the resin comprising the resin transport framework and the resin within the flow path may be regenerated resin, exhausted resin, or a combination of the two.
5. The ion exchange media of claim 3, wherein said flow path is defined by a void extending longitudinally along the length of the transport framework through said transport framework at the interface.
6. The ion exchange media of claim 3, wherein the average particle size of the resin comprising the resin transport framework is substantially smaller than the average particle size of the resin within the flow path.
7. The ion exchange media of claim 1, further comprising at least one of an anion membrane and a cation membrane, wherein said cation membrane surrounds and is in contact with the cation resin side and said anion membrane surrounds and is in contact with the anion membrane side.
8. The ion exchange media of claim 7, wherein said anion membrane is in continuous contact with said anion resin side, and wherein said cation membrane is in continuous contact with said cation resin side.
9. An electrodeionization apparatus comprising at least one dilute chamber, at least one concentrate chamber, and at least one electrode, wherein said dilute chamber includes the ion exchange media of claim 1.
10. The ion exchange media of claim 1, wherein said resin transport framework prevents substantially all movement of water through said resin transport framework outside the boundary of the flow path.
11. The ion exchange media of claim 1, wherein said resin transport framework is comprised of a binder and said flow path is comprised of a binder, and wherein the concentration of said binder in said resin transport framework is greater than the concentration of said binder in said flow path.
12. The ion exchange media of claim 11, wherein the respective binders may be the same binder, different binder, or a mixture of the same binder and different binder.
13. The ion exchange media of claim 3, wherein said resin transport framework is comprised of a first binder with a first porosity, wherein said flow path is comprised of a binder with a second porosity, and wherein said second porosity is greater than said first porosity.
14. An ion exchange media comprising a substantially nonporous resin transport framework comprised of an anion resin side and a cation resin side that meet at an interface, further comprising a plurality of flow paths extending longitudinally along the interface along the entire length of the resin transport framework, said flow paths comprising alternating areas of cation resin and anion resin in contact with said nonporous resin transport framework.
15. A method for constructing an ion exchange media, comprising the steps of
1) providing a nonporous cation resin side, wherein said nonporous cation resin side is formed by the steps of
a) providing a nonporous cation resin,
b) drying said cation resin,
c) grinding said cation resin,
d) optionally sieving said cation resin,
e) impregnating said cation resin into a binding medium to form a cation resin mixture,
f) partially drying said cation resin mixture,
g) shaping said cation resin mixture, and
h) drying said cation resin mixture;
2) providing a nonporous anion resin side, wherein said nonporous anion resin side is formed by the steps of
a) providing a nonporous anion resin,
b) drying said anion resin,
c) grinding said anion resin,
d) optionally sieving said anion resin,
e) impregnating said anion resin into a binding medium to form an anion resin mixture,
f) partially drying said anion resin mixture,
g) shaping said anion resin mixture, and
h) drying said anion resin mixture;
3) combining said anion resin side and said cation resin side such that they meet at an interface to form a nonporous resin transport framework, said transport framework including at least one void extending longitudinally through said transport framework at the interface and along the length of the transport framework; and
4) filling said void with a plurality of alternating layers of a porous second cation resin and a porous second anion resin to form at least one flow path.
16. The method of claim 15, including before the step of filling said void the additional step of binding each of said anion resin and said cation resin into a plurality of inserts having shapes corresponding to the cross-section of said void.
17. A method for limiting water splitting to resin-resin bipolar interfaces during electrodeionization of water, comprising limiting flow of water to a flow path, said flow path comprising alternating cation resin zones and anion resin zones contained within a substantially nonporous resin transport framework comprised of an anion resin side and a cation resin side.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A seed of soybean cultivar 5733056, wherein a representative sample of seed of said cultivar was deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-8388.
2. A soybean plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing the seed of claim 1.
3. A tissue culture of cells produced from the plant of claim 2, wherein said cells of the tissue culture are produced from a plant part selected from the group consisting of leaves, pollen, embryos, cotyledons, hypocotyl, meristematic cells, roots, root tips, pistils, anthers, flowers, stems and pods.
4. A protoplast produced from the plant of claim 2.
5. A protoplast produced from the tissue culture of claim 3.
6. A soybean plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 3, wherein the plant has all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of cultivar 5733056.
7. A method for producing an F1 hybrid soybean seed, wherein the method comprises crossing the plant of claim 2 with a different soybean plant and harvesting the resultant F1 hybrid soybean seed.
8. A hybrid soybean seed produced by the method of claim 7.
9. A hybrid soybean plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing said hybrid seed of claim 8.
10. A method of producing an herbicide resistant soybean plant wherein the method comprises transforming the soybean plant of claim 2 with a transgene wherein the transgene confers resistance to an herbicide selected from the group consisting of imidazolinone, sulfonylurea, glyphosate, glufosinate, L-phosphinothricin, triazine and benzonitrile.
11. An herbicide resistant soybean plant produced by the method of claim 10.
12. A method of producing an insect resistant soybean plant wherein the method comprises transforming the soybean plant of claim 2 with a transgene that confers insect resistance.
13. An insect resistant soybean plant produced by the method of claim 12.
14. The soybean plant of claim 13, wherein the transgene encodes a Bacillus thuringiensis endotoxin.
15. A method of producing a disease resistant soybean plant wherein the method comprises transforming the soybean plant of claim 2 with a transgene that confers disease resistance.
16. A disease resistant soybean plant produced by the method of claim 15.
17. A method of producing a soybean plant with modified fatty acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism, or decreased phytate content, wherein the method comprises transforming the soybean plant of claim 2 with a transgene encoding a protein selected from the group consisting of phytase, fructosyltransferase, levansucrase, \u03b1-amylase, invertase and starch branching enzyme or transforming a plant with an antisense gene of stearyl-ACP desaturase.
18. A soybean plant having modified fatty acid metabolism or modified carbohydrate metabolism produced by the method of claim 17.
19. A method of introducing a desired trait into soybean cultivar 5733056 wherein the method comprises:
a. crossing a 5733056 plant, wherein a representative sample of seed was deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-8388, with a plant of another soybean cultivar that comprises a desired trait to produce progeny plants wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, modified fatty acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism, or decreased phytate content, and resistance to bacterial disease, fungal disease or viral disease;
b. selecting one or more progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected progeny plants;
c. crossing the selected progeny plants with the 5733056 plants to produce backcross progeny plants;
d. selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar 5733056 listed in Table 1; and
e. repeating steps (c) and (d) three or more times in succession to produce selected fourth or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar 5733056 listed in Table 1.
20. A soybean plant produced by the method of claim 19, wherein the plant has the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar 5733056 listed in Table 1.
21. The soybean plant of claim 20, wherein the desired trait is herbicide resistance and the resistance is conferred to an herbicide selected from the group consisting of imidazolinone, sulfonylurea, glyphosate, glufosinate, L-phosphinothricin, triazine and benzonitrile.
22. The soybean plant of claim 20, wherein the desired trait is insect resistance and the insect resistance is conferred by a transgene encoding a Bacillus thuringiensis endotoxin.
23. The soybean plant of claim 20, wherein the desired trait is modified fatty acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism, or decreased phytate content, and said desired trait is conferred by a nucleic acid encoding a protein selected from the group consisting of phytase, fructosyltransferase, levansucrase, \u03b1-amylase, invertase and starch branching enzyme or transforming a plant with an antisense gene of stearyl-ACP desaturase.