Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53262#.VLiDsMnQrzE Author(s) Julián Andrés Prada 1 , María Elena Aguilar 2 , Ana Abdelnour-Esquivel 3 , Florent Engelmann 4 Affiliation(s) 1 Egresado Escuela de Posgrado del CATIE, Cartago, Costa Rica . 2 Laboratorio de Biotecnología, Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Cartago, Costa Rica . 3 Centro de Investigación en Biotecnología, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (ITCR), Cartago, Costa Rica . 4 IRD, UMR DIADE, Montpellier, France . ABSTRACT Jatropha curcas is a species with a variety of uses. It is grown primarily for oil for biodiesel, but also has agronomic and medicinal applications. Two methods were evaluated for cryopreservation of seeds and zygotic embryos of J. curcas: desiccation followed by rapid immersion of seeds and embryos in liquid nitrogen (LN, -196°C), and vitrification of zygotic embryos. Prior to c...
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