Sustainability of In Vitro Genebanks and Cryogenebanks

Abstract

PGRs are essential components of food, nutrition and livelihood security and in the last few decades signifi cant
improvements have been made for better and safe conservation in national and international genebanks. There
are several species, which cannot be conserved in conventional seed genebanks and needs alternate strategies.
Among diff erent strategies in vitro and cryogenebanks are the only available approaches for safe conservation
of diffi cult species for short- to medium-term and for long-term respectively. In vitro and cryoconservation is
in practice for several years, slow growth conservation and cryoconservation protocols are developed in diverse
species and many species are successfully and safely conserved in in vitro and cryogenbanks in many countries
globally. This paper reviews the priority species and future prospects of in vitro and cryogenebanks