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Vitrification in Micropropagation

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Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry ((AGRICULTURE,volume 17))

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Vitrification is the term generally used to characterize the hyperhydric malformations frequently affecting herbaceous and woody plants during their in vitro vegetative propagation. Glassiness, translucency, glauciness, and vitrescence are terms also used when describing this physiological disorder (Gaspar et al. 1987). The so-called vitrified or vitreous vitroplants appear turgid or hyperhydric (as if the cells were turgescent, at first sight), watery at their surface, and hypolignified. Their organs are somehow translucent, in some cases less green, and easily breakable (Jones 1976; Werner and Boe 1980).

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Gaspar, T. (1991). Vitrification in Micropropagation. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) High-Tech and Micropropagation I. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76415-8_7

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