Current issues in plant cryopreservation and importance for ex situ conservation of threatened Australian native species

An alarming proportion of Australia's unique plant biodiversity is under siege from a variety of environmental threats. Options for in situ conservation are becoming increasingly compromised as encroaching land use, climate change and introduced diseases are highly likely to erode sanctuaries r...

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Main Authors: Streczynski, Robyn, Clark, Hamish, Whelehan, Lily M., Ang, Sze-Tieng, Hardstaff, Lyndle K., Funnekotter, Bryn, Bunn, Eric, Offord, C.A., Sommerville, K.D., Mancera, Ricardo
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Language:English
Published: CSIRO PUBLISHING 2019
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Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP160101496
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/90907
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author Streczynski, Robyn
Clark, Hamish
Whelehan, Lily M.
Ang, Sze-Tieng
Hardstaff, Lyndle K.
Funnekotter, Bryn
Bunn, Eric
Offord, C.A.
Sommerville, K.D.
Mancera, Ricardo
author_facet Streczynski, Robyn
Clark, Hamish
Whelehan, Lily M.
Ang, Sze-Tieng
Hardstaff, Lyndle K.
Funnekotter, Bryn
Bunn, Eric
Offord, C.A.
Sommerville, K.D.
Mancera, Ricardo
author_sort Streczynski, Robyn
building Curtin Institutional Repository
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description An alarming proportion of Australia's unique plant biodiversity is under siege from a variety of environmental threats. Options for in situ conservation are becoming increasingly compromised as encroaching land use, climate change and introduced diseases are highly likely to erode sanctuaries regardless of best intentions. Ex situ conservation is currently limited to botanic garden living collections and seed banking, with in vitro and cryopreservation technologies still being developed to address ex situ conservation of species not amenable to conventional storage. Cryopreservation (storage in liquid nitrogen) has been used successfully for long-term biosecure storage of shoot tips of several species of threatened Australian plants. We present a case for building on this research and fostering further development and utilisation of cryopreservation as the best means of capturing critical germplasm collections of Australian species with special storage requirements (e.g. recalcitrant-seeded taxa and species with short-lived seeds) that currently cannot be preserved effectively by other means. This review highlights the major issues in cryopreservation that can limit survival including ice crystal damage and desiccation, toxicity of cryoprotective agents, membrane damage, oxidative stress and mitochondrial function. Progress in understanding and mitigating these stresses is vital for advancing cryopreservation for conservation purposes.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-909072023-05-01T07:55:28Z Current issues in plant cryopreservation and importance for ex situ conservation of threatened Australian native species Streczynski, Robyn Clark, Hamish Whelehan, Lily M. Ang, Sze-Tieng Hardstaff, Lyndle K. Funnekotter, Bryn Bunn, Eric Offord, C.A. Sommerville, K.D. Mancera, Ricardo Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Plant Sciences cryobank cryobiology cryobiotechnology cryostorage freezing in vitro conservation plant tissue culture vitrification MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS BETA-SITOSTEROL BILAYERS LIQUID-NITROGEN EXPOSURE SHOOT-TIPS OXIDATIVE STRESS EMBRYONIC AXES ENCAPSULATION-DEHYDRATION RECALCITRANT SEEDS COLD-ACCLIMATION MYRTLE RUST An alarming proportion of Australia's unique plant biodiversity is under siege from a variety of environmental threats. Options for in situ conservation are becoming increasingly compromised as encroaching land use, climate change and introduced diseases are highly likely to erode sanctuaries regardless of best intentions. Ex situ conservation is currently limited to botanic garden living collections and seed banking, with in vitro and cryopreservation technologies still being developed to address ex situ conservation of species not amenable to conventional storage. Cryopreservation (storage in liquid nitrogen) has been used successfully for long-term biosecure storage of shoot tips of several species of threatened Australian plants. We present a case for building on this research and fostering further development and utilisation of cryopreservation as the best means of capturing critical germplasm collections of Australian species with special storage requirements (e.g. recalcitrant-seeded taxa and species with short-lived seeds) that currently cannot be preserved effectively by other means. This review highlights the major issues in cryopreservation that can limit survival including ice crystal damage and desiccation, toxicity of cryoprotective agents, membrane damage, oxidative stress and mitochondrial function. Progress in understanding and mitigating these stresses is vital for advancing cryopreservation for conservation purposes. 2019 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/90907 10.1071/BT18147 English http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP160101496 CSIRO PUBLISHING unknown
spellingShingle Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Plant Sciences
cryobank
cryobiology
cryobiotechnology
cryostorage
freezing
in vitro conservation
plant tissue culture
vitrification
MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS
BETA-SITOSTEROL BILAYERS
LIQUID-NITROGEN EXPOSURE
SHOOT-TIPS
OXIDATIVE STRESS
EMBRYONIC AXES
ENCAPSULATION-DEHYDRATION
RECALCITRANT SEEDS
COLD-ACCLIMATION
MYRTLE RUST
Streczynski, Robyn
Clark, Hamish
Whelehan, Lily M.
Ang, Sze-Tieng
Hardstaff, Lyndle K.
Funnekotter, Bryn
Bunn, Eric
Offord, C.A.
Sommerville, K.D.
Mancera, Ricardo
Current issues in plant cryopreservation and importance for ex situ conservation of threatened Australian native species
title Current issues in plant cryopreservation and importance for ex situ conservation of threatened Australian native species
title_full Current issues in plant cryopreservation and importance for ex situ conservation of threatened Australian native species
title_fullStr Current issues in plant cryopreservation and importance for ex situ conservation of threatened Australian native species
title_full_unstemmed Current issues in plant cryopreservation and importance for ex situ conservation of threatened Australian native species
title_short Current issues in plant cryopreservation and importance for ex situ conservation of threatened Australian native species
title_sort current issues in plant cryopreservation and importance for ex situ conservation of threatened australian native species
topic Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Plant Sciences
cryobank
cryobiology
cryobiotechnology
cryostorage
freezing
in vitro conservation
plant tissue culture
vitrification
MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS
BETA-SITOSTEROL BILAYERS
LIQUID-NITROGEN EXPOSURE
SHOOT-TIPS
OXIDATIVE STRESS
EMBRYONIC AXES
ENCAPSULATION-DEHYDRATION
RECALCITRANT SEEDS
COLD-ACCLIMATION
MYRTLE RUST
url http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP160101496
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/90907