Probing Life and Death in the Glassy State of Cryopreserved Seeds, Fern Spores and Pollen: Fundamental Research to Optimize Ex Situ Preservation

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Dani Ballesteros, Christina Walters, Hugh W. Pritchard Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Wellcome Trust Millennium Building, United Kingdom, United States Department of Agriculture., United States Often various plant propagules (e.g., seeds, pollen and fern spores) can be stored dry (or partially dry) at sub-zero temperatures for extended periods of time. Under such conditions the cell cytoplasm […]

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Towards Long-Term Storage Of Wheat Pollen

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Daniela Impe, Daniel Ballesteros, Till Ischebeck, Claudia Köpnick, Hardy Rolletschek, Michael Melzer, Manuela Nagel, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Germany, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom, Department of Plant Biochemistry, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany Cryopreservation of pollen is used to preserve and exchange nuclear genes of plant genetic resources and to […]

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