Researchers say it's like Han Solo from Star Wars coming out from carbonite freezing, but for plants.
Researchers at the University of Queensland are working to develop a scientific protocol to indefinitely store plant tissue at ultra-low temperatures.Cryopreservation is being used to help save a critically endangered tree found only in south-east Queensland.What's next?abc.net.
"The idea is to safeguard these species by storing the healthy regenerable plant tissues so that one day they can be used to grow new plants in case the species becomes extinct in the wild," Ms Bao said. Jingyin Bao's work involves taking tiny shoot tips, treating them with a cryoprotective solution, and freezing them in liquid nitrogen."So you have to fine-tune everything in the protocol in order to make it work for different species., we don't have any similar protocols that have been developed before, so we have to do it step-by-step.
Queensland QLD Gossia Gonoclada Logan Gold Coast Jingyin Bao Myrtle Rust Alice Hayward Lee-Anne Veage Wayne Goss Cryo-Preservation Botany Plants Trees
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