Two cryopreservation procedures using aluminium cryo-plates, termed V-Cryo-plate and D-Cryo-plate, were successfully developed for in vitro mat rush (Juncus decipiens Nakai) basal stem buds. Multiple stems induced in liquid MS medium containing 8.9 μM BA by roller
culture were cut into small clumps, plated on solid MS medium and cultured for 1 week at 25°C. Clumps that had produced many buds were cold-hardened at 5°C for 1-2 months. The buds with basal stems were dissected from small clumps and precultured overnight at 25°C on solid MS medium
containing 0.3 M sucrose. Precultured buds were placed on aluminium cryo-plates and embedded in calcium alginate gel. Osmoprotection was performed by immersing the cryo-plates for 30 min at 25°C in loading solution (2 M glycerol + 1.0 M sucrose). In the D-Cryo-plate procedure, the buds
were dehydrated to 27-25% moisture content (fresh weight) by placing the cryo-plates in the air current of a laminar flow cabinet for 2 to 3 h. In the V-Cryo-plate procedure, buds were dehydrated by immersing the cryo-plates in PVS2 vitrification solution for 40 min at 25°C. In both procedures,
cooling was performed by placing the cryo-plates in uncapped cryotubes, which were immersed in liquid nitrogen. For rewarming, cryo-plates were immersed in medium with 1.0 M sucrose for 20 min at room temperature. Regrowth of cryopreserved buds of line 'Kitakei 2' using D-Cryo-plate and V-Cryo-plate
procedures, was 90% and 80%, respectively. The two procedures were applied to 20 additional mat rush lines. Using the V-Cryo-plate procedure resulted in regrowth ranging between 13.3 and 86.7%, with an average of 52.5%. The D-Cryo-plate led to regrowth ranging between 73.3 and 96.7%, with
an average of 86.3%. The D-Cryo-plate procedure will facilitate cryostorage of mat rush germplasm.
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Keywords:
ALUMINIUM PLATE;
CRYO-PLATE;
D-CRYO-PLATE METHOD;
MAT RUSH;
V-CRYO-PLATE METHOD
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date:
01 November 2013
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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
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