Author:Wesley-Smith, J; Berjak, P; Pammenter, NW; Walters, Chavon RDate:Mar 2014Cryopreservation is the only long-term conservation strategy available for germplasm of recalcitrant-seeded species. Efforts to cryopreserve this form of germplasm are hampered by potentially lethal intracellular freezing events; thus, it is ...Read more
Author:Wesley-Smith, J; Walters, Chavon R; Pammenter, NW; Berjak, PDate:Oct 2015Background and Aims Conservation of the genetic diversity afforded by recalcitrant seeds is achieved by cryopreservation, in which excised embryonic axes (or, where possible, embryos) are treated and stored at temperatures lower than -180(sub0)C ...Read more