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Cryopreservation of blue-green and eukaryotic algae in the culture collection at the University of Texas at Austin.

Author(s) : BODAS K., BRENNIG C., DILLER K. R., BRAND J. J.

Type of article: Article

Summary

A method that permits efficient handling and storage of a large number of algal strains has been developed to cryopreserve the algae in the collection. Each culture is grown, prepared for freezing, cryopreserved, thawed and shipped on the same agar slant in a 2 millilitre cryotube. A reliable method of quantifying the survival rate on the agar slants after freezing and thawing utilizes the observation that algal cells killed by the freeze-thaw process lose all chlorophyll after 2 days illumination.

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  • Original title: Cryopreservation of blue-green and eukaryotic algae in the culture collection at the University of Texas at Austin.
  • Record ID : 1996-2270
  • Languages: English
  • Source: Cryo-Letters - vol. 16 - n. 5
  • Publication date: 1995/09
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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