Implementing a strawberry cryogenic genebank: a comparison in agronomic traits of plants derived from cryopreserved apices, in vitro micropropagation, and conventional propagation

摘要

This study compares agronomic traits of three cultivars of strawberry in plants derived from conventional propagation, micropropagated and cryopreserved apices. The apices were stored in liquid nitrogen for one year. The agronomic traits evaluated were fruit production and fruit quality: no major changes were found in plants derived from cryopreserved apices, as compared with those from in vitro micropropagated and conventionally propagated plants. Differences were, however, found in some of the fruit production traits studied in the in vitro micropropagated plants of the cultivar Camarosa.