Today, application of in vitro culture by means of slow growth storage of shoot cultures and
cryopreservation of organs, tissues and cells in liquid nitrogen presents a remarkable …

There is a pressing need for practical and successful conservation efforts to establish long-
term germplasm collections of recalcitrant and tropical species, given the challenge and …

A vitrification procedure using aluminium cryo-plates (V-Cryo-plate procedure) was
successfully developed and adjusted for in vitro-grown mint (Mentha spp.) shoot tips. Shoots …

For the majority of plant species of conservation concern, seed banking and traditional
propagation methods are the most efficient ways of meeting the ex situ and recovery …

Shoot-tips of Rabdosia rubescens, excised from in vitro-grown proliferating shoots that were
cold-hardened at 5° C for 3 weeks, were encapsulated in alginate beads. Subsequently …

Several conditioning strategies are used to prepare plant materials for controlled rate
cooling. They include osmotic adjustments, cold acclimation periods (Dumet et al. 1993; …

Cryopreservation has emerged as a low-maintenance, cost-effective solution for the long-
term preservation of vegetatively propagated crops. Shoot tip cryopreservation often makes …

Peppermint is an important aromatic-medicinal plant species and it has valuable essential
oil contents such as menthol, linalool and limonene. The main purpose of the current study …

Thymus is an important genus of the Lamiaceae family, comprising more than 400 perennial
aromatic thyme species, which are used extensively for medicinal and culinary purposes …

This study compared the effect of the cryopreservation protocol, the genotype and the plant
growth regulators used in the recovery media on the genetic stability of mint shoot tips …