Shoot Tips for Long-term Preservation

Shoot Tips for Long-term Preservation

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Remi Bonnart, Katheryn Chen, and Gayle Volk When genebanks must cryopreserve a diverse range of clonally propagated plants, it is often most effective to preserve their shoot tips–tiny growing points in their tissues. USDA’s Remi Bonnart discusses the circumstances for which shoot tip cryopreservation is appropriate, and shows how a variety of shoot tips preservation methods are used to preserve grape, strawberry, and similar plants at the National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation. This video was made for the Center for Plant Conservation Rare Plant Academy.

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