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What is Vegetative Plant Propagation? General Scheme Long-term storage Tissue Culture Preservation in LN2 Sweet Potato (Work in Progress) |
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Introduction
The vegetative propagation group, established in 1998, implements, develops and applies cryopreservation protocols to germplasm collections for long-term preservation. The focus of our work is to place collections into secure long-term storage in liquid nitrogen.
Importance of Vegetative Cryopreservation
Cryopreservation of vegetatively-propagated materials not only preserves gene pools of vegetatively-propagated crop plants and their wild relatives, but also serves as a back-up in the event this material is destroyed in the field due to disease, frost, flood, or removed due to maintenance costs.
Our Mission
To place vegetatively-propagated materials into long-term liquid nitrogen storage by developing and modifying applied cryopreservation protocols.