Endemic plant species are usually more vulnerable to anthropogenic threats and natural
changes and, therefore, hold a higher extinction risk. The preservation of these species is a …

In vitro plant cells, tissues and organ cultures are not fully autotrophic establishing a need for
carbohydrates in culture media to maintain the osmotic potential, as well as to serve as …

In vitro techniques have found increasing use in the conservation of threatened plants in
recent years and this trend is likely to continue as more species face risk of extinction. The …

Cryopreservation techniques exist for some 100 plant species. Cryopreservation for the long-
term conservation of in vitro germplasm results in the exposure of tissues to physical …

A large number of micropropagated plantlets of banana, Musa acuminata var. Nanjanagudu
Rasabale (NR), that were developed from axillary shoot bud explants over 10 years ago …

There remains a wide variety of microalgae yet to be preserved successfully. The
preservation of the viability, genetic integrity, and functional characteristics of microalgae is …

Questions often arise concerning the genetic stability of plant materials stored in liquid
nitrogen for long time periods. This study examined the genetic stability of cryopreserved …

A cultivar of dessert banana, namely, Nanjanagudu Rasabale (NR), classified under group
“silk”(of genotype AAB), is seriously under the threat of extinction due to its susceptibility to …

A vitrification based cryopreservation technique for storage of in vitro shoot tips of papaya
has been tested to ensure applicability across a range of genotypes and to assess the …

In vitro grown “Gala” apple shoot tips were successfully cryopreserved by vitrification using a
new vitrification solution named PVSL, and the average survival and shoot formation was …