a seed like state and are capable of germination analysis of lipids for asexual embryos have shown the presence of wax esters of long chain fatty acids and alcohols that are identical with commercial jojoba wax as measured by gas liquid chromatography the chromatograph tracing of the wax esters from commercial jojoba wax and asexual embryos of jojoba are shown in fig1 and 2 these results are supported by the data shown in table 1 as follows table 1__________________________________________________________________________gas chromatographic analysis of asexualembryo lipids as compared to jojoba oilsource of ester carbon lengthwax 36 38 40 42 44 total wax__________________________________________________________________________ jojoba oil area sup 1 376 2059 9927 15025 280 27668 100 area 1 4 7 4 35 9 54 3 1 0asexual area tr tr 975 2766 tr 3742 13 5embryo sup 2 area lt 0 1 lt 0 1 26 1 73 9 lt 0 1__________________________________________________________________________ sup 1 determined by hewlett packard 3880 s integrator 1000 sup 2 2 46 g fresh weight 0 33 g dry weight 32 4 mg lipid 9 8 lipid in a subsequent study initialed in may 1982 zygotic asexual embryos of jojoba each between the size of 20 and 100 mg were cultured on the identical basal medium previously.