TY - JOUR AU - Marco Medina, Ana AU - Serrano Martínez, Francisco PY - 2012/04/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Crioconservación: herramienta para la conservación ex situ de material vegetal JF - Cuadernos de Biodiversidad JA - Cuad. biodivers. VL - 0 IS - 38 SE - Artículos DO - 10.14198/cdbio.2012.38.03 UR - https://cuadernosdebiodiversidad.ua.es/article/view/2012-n38-crioconservacion-herramienta-para-la-conservacion-ex-si SP - 9-12 AB - Nowadays different in vitro techniques are employed in order to preserve plant species. Among these, cryopreservation (the conservation of plant material at ultralow temperature, usually at -196 ºC, which is the temperature of liquid nitrogen) is widely employed for long-term storage of plant germplasm. These techniques could complement other ex situ strategies like seed banks or field collections, and are the unique reliable way for long-term preservation of species that are vegetatively propagated or have recalcitrant seeds. Recently, cryopreservation protocols in Tetraclinis articulata and Thymus moroderi explants have been developed. ER -