Pollination of Dendrobium hybrids using cryopreserved pollen

HortScience

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 264-267

  Vendrame, Wagner A ^a   Carvalho, Virginia S ^b   Dias, José M M ^b   Maguire, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Liquid nitrogen; Long term storage; Orchids; Pollinia; PVS2; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS PRESERVATION; LIQUID NITROGEN; SEED; VITRIFICATION;

CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPRESERVED POLLEN; LONG TERM STORAGE; ORCHIDS; POLLINATION; PREVITRIFICATION SOLUTIONS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

DENDROBIUM; ORCHIDACEAE;

EID: 38049188370     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.43.1.264     Document Type: Article

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