As Seen on RPA: Dormant Buds for Long-term Preservation

In Module VI of CPC’s Applied Plant Conservation Course (APCC), you’ll find a comprehensive overview on planning a conservation seed collection, including field collection, cleaning & drying seeds, storage conditions and equipment, and germination trials. You’ll learn why we conduct germination tests for seed collections, how to set up a long-term testing schedule, and how to determine the sample size for these tests.

In this Rare Plant Academy case study video on Dormant Buds, you’ll learn about temperate woody plants naturally forming buds that enter a state of dormancy in the winter months. For genebanks preserving clonal material, it is advantageous to cryopreserve tissue in this state. Learn more about the benefits and limitations to this approach, and how this process is used to preserve the genetic material of cherry trees and similar plants at the USDA National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation.