Title
Cryopreservation of Potato Shoot Tips for Long-Term Storage
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
book part
Author(s)
Espirilla J.
Cárdenas J.
Castro M.
Sánchez J.C.
Manrique-Carpintero N.
Ellis D.
Anglin N.L.
Publisher(s)
Humana Press Inc.
Abstract
Cryopreservation is currently the only method which allows long-term conservation of living clonal plant material in the vapor or liquid phase of nitrogen (at −140 to −196 °C) allowing tissue to be viable for decades or perhaps centuries. Specifically, for species with recalcitrant seeds or requiring constant vegetative propagation, it is the method of choice for the long-term conservation of its genetic resources. The protocol described here is a modification of a previously developed plant vitrification solution 2 (PVS2)—droplet vitrification method of potato shoot tips, adapted from Musa species. Utilizing this protocol, the International Potato Center (CIP) has successfully stored in the cryobank more than 3000 cultivated potato accessions, belonging to seven species and nine different taxa [16], originating principally from ten countries in South and Central America. As part of CIP’s quality management system, all vegetative material placed in cryo is routinely subsampled, thawed, and assessed to confirm that whole plantlets can be produced after storage in liquid nitrogen. Complete plant recovery rates of thawed shoot tips range from 20% to 100% (average rate: 60%). This chapter describes the complete set of steps from the routine procedure of cryopreserving potato shoot tips for long-term conservation.
Start page
21
End page
54
Volume
2354
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias agrícolas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85114236697
PubMed ID
Resource of which it is part
Methods in Molecular Biology
ISSN of the container
10643745
Sponsor(s)
The authors gratefully express thanks for the financial support from GIZ on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in Germany without whose support of the gene banks and cryopreservation work and laboratory significant progress in cryopreservation and method development would not have been possible. We thank the CGIAR Genebank Platform for funding the long-term maintenance of the germplasm collections. Some additional funding from the CGIAR Research Programs on Root, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) is also kindly acknowledged.
Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung BMZ
Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers CGIAR
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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