植物种质资源超低温保存概述

简要回顾了植物种质资源超低温保存的历史,说明了超低温保存植物材料的多样性,阐述了超低温耐性的生物学基础及超低温伤害产生的原因和类型,介绍了各种常用超低温保存方法的技术要点,并对生产顽拗性种子的植物种质资源的超低温保存作了专门的论述,分析了生产顽拗性种子的植物种质资源超低温保存的潜力、现状和困难,指出顽拗性种子的超低温保存是植物种质资源超低温保存的重点和难点,而真正实现用超低温保存技术贮藏顽拗性植物种质资源还有很长的路要走。     

枇杷茎尖二步玻璃化法超低温保存的研究

超低温保存是目前植物种质资源长期稳定保存最理想的方法,而近几年发展的玻璃化超低温保存法具有设备要求简单、材料处理步骤简便及效果和重演性好等特点,倍受人们的青睐。国内外用玻璃化法成功地保存许多果树的种质资源。在对枇杷（Eriobotrya japonica Lindl．）花粉超低温保存取得成功的基础上,作者进行了枇杷茎尖玻璃化超低温保存的研究,以期建立枇杷茎尖超低温保存体系,为长期稳定保存枇杷种质资源提供技术支持。     

桃花粉低温和超低温保存方法比较研究

桃(Prunus persica(L.)Batsch)是我国重要的无性繁殖作物种质资源,目前主要保存于3个国家无性繁殖作物种质圃。随着以茎尖、花粉、休眠芽为保存载体的超低温保存技术的发展,超低温保存已成为无性繁殖作物重要备份保存方式。本研究以15份桃种质花粉为研究对象,开展含水量、回湿处理和保存温度(4℃低温保存和液氮超低温保存)对保存后花粉离体萌发率的影响研究。研究结果:明确了桃种质花粉超低温保存的含水量;揭示了回湿处理对部分桃种质花粉超低温保存产生显著影响;超低温保存后花粉离体萌发率最高可达83%;4℃低温保存和超低温保存比较研究结果表明,超低温保存4年后14份桃种质花粉离体萌发率仍可保持30%以上,11份桃种质花粉离体萌发率与保存前花粉离体萌发率相比无显著变化甚至显著提高,而4℃低温保存的花粉离体萌发率降至0。该研究为国家种质库建立花粉规模化超低温保存提供技术支撑。     

植物种质资源超低温保存现状及其研究进展

本文根据联合国粮农组织2010年发布的世界各国的《第二份世界粮食和农业植物遗传资源现状报告以及有关国际会议和相关文献资料,从超低温保存材料类型、基本程序、方法技术、理论基础、影响因素、保存费用、保存策略和保存现状、实际应用等方面综述了全球植物种质资源超低温保存现状及其研究进展,展望了植物种质资源超低温保存技术的应用前景,旨在加强非正常型种子植物种质资源的安全长期保存。文章最后分析了我国存在的差距,提出了今后努力方向和发展的建议。     

香蕉茎尖超低温保存过程中的细胞超微结构观察(简报)

超低温保存(Cryopreservation)通常称为液氮保存或LN(-196℃)保存,是目前植物种质资源长期稳定保存的理想方法,已经成功应用于多种植物种质资源保存。玻璃化法(Vitrification)超低温保存植物种质资源始于20世纪80年代末,Uagami等首次     

玉米愈伤组织超低温保存的研究

关于植物组织和细胞培养物的超低温保存,国际上已有不少工作。我们已对甘蔗愈伤组织超低温保存中的一些主要因素进行了较系统的研究。这些实验结果证明,超低温保存技术有可能是植物种质长期保存的最理想的方法。然而,也有不少试验结果指出,超低温保存中的一些技术措施,随植物种类的不同而有差异。在某些植物上行之有效的措施,对另一种植物却是无效的。此种情况给这一技术的应用与推广造成巨大的工作量和困难。但寻     

拟南芥悬浮细胞系的玻璃化法超低温保存

悬浮培养细胞系是植物生理生化研究的好材料之一。为了保持细胞系的遗传稳定性,需要采用超低温保存技术。玻璃化法是一种不用程序降温仪的超低温保存技术。本文报道了从模式植物拟南芥建立悬浮细胞系并对其进行玻璃化法超低温研究。细胞经过合理的预培养处理和保护剂处理,直接投入液氮贮存。复温后的细胞能恢复生长,恢复生长的细胞保持着植株再生能力。国外,拟南芥悬浮细胞系的程序降温法保存和包埋脱水法保存已经报道,玻璃化法保存尚未见报道。     

果树种质资源超低温保存研究进展

综述了国内外在超低温保存果树种质资源方面的最新研究成果,从材料选择、材料预处理、冰冻保护剂、冰冻方法及超低温保存对组织超微结构的影响等几个方面总结了果树超低温保存的原理、影响因素及关键操作技术,展望了果树种质资源超低温保存技术的应用前景.     

切花百合离体茎尖玻璃化法超低温保存研究

以切花百合西伯利亚试管苗离体茎尖为试材,通过正交设计试验对预培养培养基中蔗糖浓度、预培养时间和PVS2处理时间等影响超低温保存存活率的主要因素进行了分析,初步建立了切花百合种质玻璃化法超低温保存的技术方案。通过形态观察、可溶性蛋白和同工酶检测,冻存前后材料的遗传稳定性没有发生改变,表明该方法对切花百合的种质保存具有较强的实用意义。     

猕猴桃茎段的超低温保存

近年来的研究结果表明,超低温(-196℃)冰冻保存是长期保存植物种质最理想的方法,并已在40多种植物上取得初步成功。我国猕猴桃的品种资源十分丰富,但其种质的超低温保存尚未见报道。我们以猕猴桃茎段为材料进行了试验,试材经120天的液氮贮存后,在再培养中表现出很高的存活率,并产生出大量的新植株。现将这一初步结果简报如下。     

Plant cryopreservation: Progress and prospects

Summary Cryopreservation (liquid nitrogen, −196°C) represents the only safe and cost-effective option for long-term conservation of germplasm of non-orthodox seed species, vegetatively propagated species, and of biotechnology products. Classical cryopreservation techniques, which are based on freeze-induced dehydration, are mainly employed for freezing undifferentiated cultures and apices of cold-tolerant species. New cryopreservation techniques, which are based on vitrification of internal solutes, are successfully employed with all explant types, including cells suspensions and calluses, apices, and somatic and zygotic embryos of temperate and tropical species. The development of cryopreservation protocols is significantly more advanced for vegetatively propagated species than for recalcitrant seed species. Even though its routine use is still limited, there are a growing number of examples where cryopreservation is employed on a large scale for different types of materials, including seeds with orthodox and intermediate storage behaviour, dormant buds, pollen, biotechnology products, and apices sampled from in vitro plantlets of vegetatively propagated species. Cryopreservation can also be employed for uses other than germplasm conservation, such as cryoselection, i.e., the selection through freezing of samples with special properties, or cryotherapy, i.e., the elimination of viruses from infected plants through apex cryopreservation. Because of its high potential, it is expected that cryopreservation will become more frequently employed for long-term conservation of plant genetic resources.     

包埋玻璃化法超低温保存植物种质的研究进展

包埋玻璃化法是在玻璃化法和包埋脱水法基础上发展起来的超低温保存植物种质的新技术.它具有能同时处理大量材料,处理后恢复生长快,对材料的毒害作用较小及成芽率高等优点,已成功地用于辣根、山嵛菜等20余种植物,在植物种质资源的保存上显示出了巨大的应用潜力.本文介绍了包埋玻璃化法产生的背景及其优点,阐述了包埋玻璃化法的基本方法和预培养、包埋、脱水、化冻及恢复培养等过程,比较了该法冻存后的效果和冻存后所形成植株的遗传稳定性,同时指出了进一步研究的重点.     

包埋玻璃化法超低温保存植物种质的研究进展

包埋玻璃化法是在玻璃化法和包埋脱水法基础上发展起来的超低温保存植物种质的新技术。它具有能同时处理大量材料,处理后恢复生长快,对材料的毒害作用较小及成芽率高等优点,已成功地用于辣根、山嵛菜等20余种植物,在植物种质资源的保存上显示出了巨大的应用潜力。本文介绍了包埋玻璃化法产生的背景及其优点, 阐述了包埋玻璃化法的基本方法和预培养、包埋、脱水、化冻及恢复培养等过程,比较了该法冻存后的效果和冻存后所形成植株的遗传稳定性,同时指出了进一步研究的重点。     

4. In-vitro conservation

In-vitro (tissue culture) techniques offer ways of overcoming serious problems in the conservation of crop genetic resources. These primarily involve the use of slow growth and cryopreservation in liquid nitrogen to store germplasm, but there are also important applications in other areas, including germplasm collecting, multiplication and exchange. Slow growth techniques for medium-term storage of cultures are relatively well developed and in-vitro active gene bank establishment is feasible. Cryopreservation for long-term storage is possible for some materials but, in general, requires further research and development. Among the aspects to be examined are the behaviour of different culture systems when exposed to ultralow temperatures, crop-specific requirements and the genetic stability of stored material.     

超低温保存植物种质资源的新途径——小滴玻璃化法

超低温保存是一种安全、有效的种质资源保存途径,可长期保存种质资源。小滴玻璃化法是在滴冻法和玻璃化法上基础上发展起来的用于植物种质资源保存的新技术。本文综述了该方法的技术概念、主要优点、基本程序、应用前景及国内外研究现状。     

Advances in understanding the fundamental aspects required for successful cryopreservation of Australian flora

Australia is host to an amazing diversity of species, many of which require conservation efforts. In vitro culture provides a tool for not only conserving these threatened species but allows for their propagation from limited starting material. Cryopreservation provides the greatest long-term storage option for in vitro cultures and as a conservation tool for other germplasm. However, while cryopreservation has proven capable of delivering viable long-term storage with some plant taxa, the process of deriving protocols is still largely an incremental process. The key to faster and more intuitive optimising of cryopreservation protocols lies with continuing to develop a better understanding of key factors, including issues with plant physiology (such as genetic stability, the composition of the proteome and metabolome, cell membrane characteristics, and antioxidant defences) and how the stresses imposed by cryopreservation (such as the excision damage, desiccation, cryoprotective agent toxicity, ice crystal damage, and cooling to cryogenic temperatures) interact and contribute to the cryocapability of a species. This review focuses on the advances that have been made towards understanding cryogenic stress and how this has led to improved cryopreservation protocols, in the context of cryopreserving Australian flora.     

Maize seedlings produced from dry seeds exposed to liquid nitrogen display altered levels of shikimate pathway compounds

In light of climate change and risks of food insecurity, it is becoming increasingly important to preserve plant germplasm in genebanks. Storage of seeds, particularly via cryopreservation, is one of the most proficient methods for ex situ plant germplasm conservation. Whilst seed cryo-banking can have little, to no, or even beneficial effects on subsequent seedling vigor in some species, it can lead to a number of plant abnormalities (morphological and physiological). This study investigated the effects of maize seed cryopreservation on seedling growth (until 14 d) and levels of selected amino acids produced in the shikimate pathway, a major link between primary and secondary metabolism. Seed cryopreservation reduced FW in recovered seedlings, reduced caffeic acid (2.5-fold decrease), and increased levels of all other shikimate pathway–related compounds assessed: phenylalanine (2.9-fold increase), tyrosine (2.6-fold increase), and shikimic (2.1-fold increase) and protocathecuic (3.1-fold increase) acids in cotyledons. Our results suggest that maize seed cryopreservation results in seedlings that exhibit signs of an ‘overly’ efficient and caffeic acid–deficient shikimate pathway, possibly related to their reduced growth during a highly vulnerable growth stage. However, these metabolic abnormalities manifested most severely in the maternal (cotyledonary), as opposed to vegetative (roots, stems, and leaves), tissues and hence are likely to disappear when the seedlings shed the cotyledons and become completely autotrophic.

     

Ex situ conservation of plant germplasm using biotechnology

Conservation of plant genetic resources attracts more and more public interest as the only way to guarantee adequate food supplies for future human generations. However, the conservation and subsequent use of such resources are complicated by cultural, economical, technical and political issues. Over the last 30 years, there have been significant increases in the number of plant collections and in accessions in ex situ storage centres throughout the World. The present review is of these ex situ collections and the contribution biotechnology has made and can make to conservation of plant germplasm. The applications and limitations of the new, molecular approaches to germplasm characterization are discussed. In vitro slow growth is used routinely for conserving germplasm of plants such as banana, plantain, cassava and potato. More recently, cryopreservation procedures have become more accessible for long-term storage. New cryopreservation techniques, such as encapsulation-dehydration, vitrification and desiccation, lengthen the list of plant species that can not only tolerate low temperatures but also give normal growth on recovery. Extensive research is still needed if these techniques are to be fully exploited.V.M. Villalobos is with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Viale delle Terme di Caracalia, 00100 Rome, Italy. F. Engelmann is with the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), Via delle Sette Chiese 142, 00145 Rome, Italy.