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Authors: Walters, Christina; Touchell, Darren H.; Power, Paula; Wesley-Smith, James; Antolin, Michael F.

Source: Cryoletters, Volume 23, Number 5, 1 September 2002, pp. 291-298(8)

Publisher: Cryoletters

Seeds of the endangered species Zizania texana are recalcitrant, making it difficult to preserve the remaining genetic diversity of this species in genebanks. Excised embryos can be cryopreserved using solution-based cryoprotection protocols. Survival following cryoexposure increased from less than 5% to about 75% by preculturing embryos in high concentrations of sugars, bathing them in cryoprotectant solutions, and partially drying them to water contents of about 0.6 g H2O/g dry mass.

Keywords: CRYOPRESERVATION; DESICCATION TOLERANCE; EMBRYO; RECALCITRANT; VITRIFICATION; WILDRICE; ZIZANIA

Document Type: Regular Paper

Publication date: 01 September 2002

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  • CryoLetters is a bimonthly international journal for low temperature sciences, including cryobiology, cryopreservation or vitrification of cells and tissues, chemical and physical aspects of freezing and drying, and studies involving ecology of cold environments, and cold adaptation

    The journal publishes original research reports, authoritative reviews, technical developments and commissioned book reviews of studies of the effects produced by low temperatures on a wide variety of scientific and technical processes, or those involving low temperature techniques in the investigation of physical, chemical, biological and ecological problems.

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