Exploring the physiological basis of cryopreservation success and failure in clonally propagated in vitro crop plant germplasm

Agricultural and Food Science

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 103-116

  Harding, Keith ^a   Johnston, Jason W ^b   Benson, Erica E ^a  

^a Damar Research Scientists Conservation Environmental Science and Biotechnology   (United Kingdom)

^b THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ageing; Apoptosis; Clonal; Cryopreservation; Physiology; Potato; Ribes; Stability

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; RIBES; RIBES HUDSONIANUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 68049139399     PISSN: 14596067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2137/145960609789267524     Document Type: Article

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