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In Vitro Genebanks for Preserving Tropical Biodiversity

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Conservation of Tropical Plant Species

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Conservation of plant biodiversity can be accomplished in many ways. Tropical plants often cannot be stored as seeds and must be conserved as growing plants. These plants are at risk from disease and environmental factors such as climate change so it is important to provide secondary backups of any field genebanks. One option is the use of in vitro culture as a medium-term storage form. In vitro genebanks are maintained in several countries and provide a secure backup for field collections of many important crops and their wild relatives. In addition, the availability of in vitro collections provides the materials for long-term storage through cryopreservation and international exchange of germplasm. This chapter describes the factors involved in developing an in vitro stored collection and some of the collections held as in vitro plants in various genebanks around the globe.

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The following are gratefully acknowledged for helping us in retrieval of in vitro genebank information for the chapter. Claire Arakawa, USDA-ARS NCGR-Hilo Hawaii; Ariana Digilio, INTA Castelar, Argentina; Stefano Diulgheroff, AGPM, FAO; Natalie Feltman, Deputy Director: Plant Genetic Resources, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Republic of South Africa; Luigi Guarino, Crop Diversity Trust; Brian M. Irish, USDA-ARS, Tropical Agriculture Research Station, Mayaguez, PR.; Max Martin, USDA-ARS, US Potato Genebank, Sturgeon Bay, WI.; Luis Mroginski, Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Corrientes, Argentina; Prem Narain Mathur, South Asia Coordinator and Senior Scientist, Diversity Assessment and Use, Bioversity International, Office for South Asia, New Delhi, India; Juliano Gomes Pádua, EMBRAPA Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Brasília, Brasil; Victoria Rivero, Instituto de Recursos Biológicos, INTA Balcarce, Argentina; Ericson Aranzales Rondon, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia; William Solano, investigador en Recursos Fitogenéticos y Biotecnología del CATIE en Costa Rica; Mary Taylor, Genetic Resources Coordinator/Centre of Pacific Crops and Trees, Suva, Fiji; Fernanda Vidigal, Embrapa Mandioca e Fruticultura Tropical, Cruz das Almas, Brazil; our appologies to any other contributors that we may have overlooked.

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  1. United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, National Clonal Germplasm Repository, 33447 Peoria Rd, Corvallis, OR, 97333-2521, USA

    Barbara M. Reed

  2. Tissue Culture and Cryopreservation Unit, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, 110 012, India

    Sandhya Gupta

  3. Formerly Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada

    Esther E. Uchendu

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Reed, B.M., Gupta, S., Uchendu, E.E. (2013). In Vitro Genebanks for Preserving Tropical Biodiversity. In: Normah, M., Chin, H., Reed, B. (eds) Conservation of Tropical Plant Species. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3776-5_5

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