Abstract
Dendrobium is a large genus in the family Orchidaceae that exhibits vast diversity in floral characteristics, which is of considerable importance to orchid breeders, biotechnologists and collectors. Native species have high value as a result of their medicinal properties, while their hybrids are important as ornamental commodities, either as cut flowers or potted plants and are thus veritable industrial crops. Thus, preservation of Dendrobium germplasm is valuable for species conservation, breeding programs and the floriculture industry. Cryopreservation represents the only safe, efficient and cost-effective long-term storage option to facilitate the conservation of genetic resources of plant species. This review highlights 16 years of literature related to the preservation of Dendrobium germplasm and comprises the most comprehensive assessment of thorough studies performed to date, which shows reliable and reproducible results. Air-drying, encapsulation–dehydration, encapsulation–vitrification, vitrification and droplet-vitrification are the current cryopreservation methodologies that have been used to cryopreserve Dendrobium germplasm. Mature seeds, pollen, protoplasts, shoot primordia, protocorms and somatic embryos or protocorm-like bodies (PLBs) have been cryopreserved with different levels of success. Encapsulation–vitrification and encapsulation–dehydration are the most used protocol, while PLBs represent the main explant explored.
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Abbreviations
- DMSO:
-
Dimethyl sulfoxide
- FDA:
-
Fluorescein diacetate
- LN:
-
Liquid nitrogen
- PLB:
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Protocorm-like body
- TTC:
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Triphenyl tetrazolium chloride
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Teixeira da Silva, J.A., Zeng, S., Galdiano, R.F. et al. In vitro conservation of Dendrobium germplasm. Plant Cell Rep 33, 1413–1423 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-014-1631-6
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