Practicing Success
Practicing Success
CUET Preparation Today
| How can we protect genetic strains of commercially important plants ? |
In situ conservation. Botanical gardens. Seed banks. Herbarium. |
| Seed banks. |
| In recent years ex situ conservation has advanced beyond keeping threatened species in enclosures. Now gametes of threatened species can be preserved in viable and fertile condition for long periods using cryopreservation techniques, eggs can be fertilised in vitro, and plants can be propagated using tissue culture methods. Seeds of different genetic strains of commercially important plants can be kept for long periods in seed banks. |
