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The Role of Plant Tissue Culture Technology in Biodiversity Conservation—Selected Papers from the IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress

A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2017) | Viewed by 17806

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Tae Dong Kim

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National Institute of Forest Science, Suwon, Korea

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Plant biodiversity is declining rapidly due to physical and environmental factors, such as land use change, climate change, invasive species, overexploitation, and pollution. Biodiversity conservation is a global concern because biodiversity has declined by more than a quarter in the last 35 years. Thus, all member states of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) took measures to preserve both agricultural and forest biodiversity. Plant tissue culture technology has been increasingly applied for micropropagation, germplasm conservation, and genetic improvement in diverse plant species. Biotechnological methods, such as plant tissue culture, somatic embryogenesis, cryopreservation, etc., are quite applicable, and are useful techniques for ex situ plant conservation and sustainable resource utilization. Especially, in vitro technology offers new means of improving biodiversity conservation in rare and endangered plant species. We would like to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue in order to discuss practical applications of in vitro techniques to the conservation and sustainable use of plant biodiversity.

Dr. Tae Dong Kim
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Biodiversity
  • Conservation
  • Micropropagation
  • Cryopreservation
  • Tissue culture
  • Somatic embryogenesis

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Tissue Culture of Corymbia and Eucalyptus
by Stephen J. Trueman, Cao Dinh Hung and Ivar Wendling
Forests 2018, 9(2), 84; https://doi.org/10.3390/f9020084 - 09 Feb 2018
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Eucalypts are among the world’s most widely planted trees, but the productivity of eucalypt plantations is limited by their often-low amenability to true-to-type propagation from cuttings. An alternative approach to cutting propagation is tissue culture, which can be used to micropropagate valuable genotypes [...] Read more.
Eucalypts are among the world’s most widely planted trees, but the productivity of eucalypt plantations is limited by their often-low amenability to true-to-type propagation from cuttings. An alternative approach to cutting propagation is tissue culture, which can be used to micropropagate valuable genotypes rapidly while simultaneously preserving germplasm in vitro. This review describes the use of tissue culture methods such as shoot culture, organogenesis, and somatic embryogenesis for micropropagating eucalypts. This review also discusses the use of cool storage, encapsulation, and cryopreservation methods for preserving eucalypt germplasm and delaying tissue maturation under minimal-growth conditions. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role of Plant Tissue Culture Technology in Biodiversity Conservation—Selected Papers from the IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress)
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Application of Biotechnology in the Conservation of the Genus Castanea
by Elena Corredoira, Mª Teresa Martínez, Mª José Cernadas and Mª Carmen San José
Forests 2017, 8(10), 394; https://doi.org/10.3390/f8100394 - 17 Oct 2017
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Castanea is a hardwood forest genus of considerable agro-economic importance for both timber and nut production. Chestnuts are one of the most significant nut crops in the temperate zone. However, this species is threatened by pollution, social factors, economical changes, and two major [...] Read more.
Castanea is a hardwood forest genus of considerable agro-economic importance for both timber and nut production. Chestnuts are one of the most significant nut crops in the temperate zone. However, this species is threatened by pollution, social factors, economical changes, and two major fungal diseases: ink disease (Phytophthora spp.), and chestnut blight canker (Cryphonectria parasitica). Similar to other wood species, chestnuts are difficult to propagate both generatively by seed and vegetatively by means of grafting or cuttings. Biotechnological methods such as in vitro culture have been developed in the last few years as an alternative to conventional vegetative propagation. Biotechnology plays a very important role not only in the propagation of selected individuals (being used at a commercial level), but also in its short-term preservation, and offers the possibility of preserving the propagated material in the medium-term (cold storage) or long-term using cryopreservation. Full article
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