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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover, xiv + 314 pages. Ex-college library, marked "discarded", internal library markings (a stamped bookplate inside front board, a blank "date due" slip on rear blank endpaper). Interior shows small sparse marks from reading, remains clean and bright, untanned, with unmarked text: no writing, no highlighting of any kind. A small indentation / short creases to lower inner corner of approx. first half of pages (minor). Good secure binding. Boards show shelfwear, creasing along spine, rubbed tip of lower outer corner of rear panel; two external library labels (lower back & spine). Published without a dust jacket. --- This text presents the research findings of international research institutes and organizations who have co-ordinated efforts to use tissue culture methods for the conservation of certain crops. The articles highlight the direction of efforts in germplasm conservation. -- Contents: Biotechnology in Conservation of Genetic Resources; Backgrounds and Principles of In Vitro Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources; Potentially Valuable Cryogenic Procedures for Cryopreservation of Cultured Plant Meristems; Medium- and Long-term Storage of In Vitro Cultures of Temperate Fruit and Nut Crops; Application of In Vitro Techniques in the Preservation of Conifer Germplasm and in Conifer Tree Improvement; Tissue Culture Methods and Approaches for Conservation of Root and Tuber Crops; Cryopreservation of Zygotic and Somatic Embryos of Tropical Species Producing Recalcitrant or Intermediate Seeds; Conservation of Citrus Genetic Resources; Cryopreservation of Citrus sinensis Cultured Cells; Application and Limitations of Conserving In Vitro Cultures of Prunus; In Vitro Germplasm Conservation of Sugarcane, Cultivars, Basic Sugarcane Species and Related Genera; Germplasm Conservation in Food Yams (Dioscorea spp.): Constraints, Application and Future Prospects; In Vitro Conservation of Coffee (Coffee spp.) Germplasm; Subject Index.