Desiccation tolerance and natural cold acclimation allow cryopreservation of bryophytes without pretreatment or use of cryoprotectants

Bryologist

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 760-769

  Segreto, Rossana ^a   Hassel, Kristian ^a   Bardal, Renate ^a   Stenøien, Hans K ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Biobank; ColdGene repository; conservation; genome resource bank; mosses

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES;

EID: 78650862540     PISSN: 00072745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-113.4.760     Document Type: Article

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