JIRCAS/IPGRI International Workshop Abstracts


	Cryopreservation of tropical plant germplasm Current research progress and application

	Florent Engelmann and Hiroko Takagi, editors The links below connect to portable document format (pdf) files of the full text of the Proceedings of the JIRCAS/IPGRI Joint International Workshop, held in Tsukuba, Japan, 20-23 October 1998. (JIRCAS is the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences.)
	Contents
	Foreword	iv
	Acknowledgements	v
	Keynote presentations
	Development of cryopreservation techniques
	Akira Sakai	1
	Importance of cryopreservation for the conservation of plant genetic resources
	Florent Engelmann	8
	Session 1. Fundamental aspects of cryopreservation	21
	Session 2. Cryopreservation techniques	89
	Session 3. Ongoing cryopreservation projects – Research and its application	245
	Session 4. Current status of cryopreservation research and future perspectives of its application in national programmes	281
	Posters	335
	Conclusions and recommendations	477
	Programme	478
	Participants	484
	Author Index	494

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