Christina Walters

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Acquiring a Conservation Collection
Cleaning, Processing, Drying, and Storing Orthodox Seeds
Collecting and Maintaining Exceptional Species in Tissue Culture and Cryopreservation
Collecting Seeds from Wild Rare Plant Populations
Curating Small Samples: Increasing the Number of Seeds for Storage and Restoration
Distributing Samples and Information
Splitting Seed Samples for Safety Duplication Storage and Testing
The Difference between Orthodox, Intermediate, and Recalcitrant Seed
Why Conserve Rare Plants?

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Why Seeds and Spores Die in the Freezer and Sometimes Faster That Anticipated
Why Seeds and Spores Die in the Freezer and Sometimes Faster That Anticipated

Chris Walters, Research Leader of the Plant Germplasm Preservation Research team at USDA-ARS National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation
CRYO 2019 Daniel Ballesteros
Probing Life and Death in the Glassy State of Cryopreserved Seeds, Fern Spores and Pollen: Fundamental Research to Optimize Ex Situ Preservation

Dani Ballesteros, Christina Walters, Hugh W. Pritchard

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Wellcome Trust Millennium Building, United Kingdom, United States Department of Agriculture., United States
Why does CPC recommend drying seeds at 25-35% RH and 25C for long term storage in the freezer?
Why does CPC recommend drying seeds at 25-35% RH and 25C for long term storage in the freezer?

Dr. Christina Walters and Lisa Hill, National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation, Fort Collins