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Ex Situ Conservation

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Ex Situ Conservation
The preservation of an organism’s genome in a gene bank or other repository


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The Germplasm Bank of the Botanic Garden of Tuscia with the Herbarium UTV (Tuscia University, Viterbo-Italy) has undertaken a project for ex situ conservation of threatened pteridophytes of the Italian flora, in order to collect and preserve spores both from natural populations and from exsiccata (Magrini et al.
An Ex Situ Action Plan Although ex situ conservation techniques should not be viewed as a substitute for effective in situ programmes, considering the likely increase in risks to in situ populations and the fact that conservation through reserves alone is unlikely to be able to provide adequate protection to many orchid species, ex situ conservation and the storage of germplasm clearly has a role to play and is an indispensable component in the conservation tool box.
Since the ex situ conservation of in vitro multiplication technique is a powerful tool for achieving speedy multiplication of some medicinal plants [7-9] a protocol has been developed for Oxystelma esculentum which is being reported in this communication.
 
 
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