Cryopreservation of threatened native Australian species-what have we learned and where to from here?

In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Plant

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-25

  Kaczmarczyk, Anja ^a,b   Turner, Shane R ^b,c   Bunn, Eric ^a,c   Mancera, Ricardo L ^a   Dixon, Kingsley W ^b,c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BOTANIC GARDENS AND PARKS AUTHORITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cold acclimation; Cryobiology; Membrane structure; Plant conservation; Proteomics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952068701     PISSN: 10545476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11627-010-9318-3     Document Type: Review

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