A New Perspective on Cryotherapy: Pathogen Elimination Using Plant Shoot Apical Meristem via Cryogenic Techniques.

Ergun Kaya, Selin Galatali, Sevinc Guldag, Onur Celik

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2020

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Plant pathogens cause different diseases on crops and industrial plant species that result in economic losses. Pathogen-free plant material has usually been obtained by traditional procedures such as meristem culture, thermotherapy, and chemotherapy. However, there are many limitations of these procedures such as mechanical challenges of meristem excision and low regeneration rate, low resistance to high temperatures, phytotoxicity, and mutagenic effects of the chemicals used in the procedures. Cryotherapy is a newly developed biotechnological tool that has been very effective in virus elimination from economically important plant species. This tool has overcome the abovementioned limitations. This chapter aims to highlight the importance of the cryogenic procedures (vitrification, encapsulation-vitrification, droplet vitrification, two-step freezing, dehydration, encapsulation-dehydration) in order to generate virus-free germplasm.

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Ergun Kaya, Selin Galatali, Sevinc Guldag, Onur Celik. A New Perspective on Cryotherapy: Pathogen Elimination Using Plant Shoot Apical Meristem via Cryogenic Techniques. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2020;2094:137-148