Cryopreservation of vegetatively-propagated materials not only preserves gene pools of vegetatively-propagated crop plants and their wild relatives, but also serves as a back-up in the event this material is destroyed in the field due to disease, frost, flood, or removed due to maintenance costs.

• What is Vegetative Plant Propagation?
• Allium - Garlic
• Fragaria - Strawberry
• Humulus - Hops
• Ipomoea - Sweet Potato
• Malus - Apple
• Mentha - Mint
• Prunus - Cherry
• Pycnanthemum - Mountain Mint
• Pyrus - Pear
• Ribes - Currant, Gooseberry
• Rubus - Raspberry, Blackberry
• Solanum - Potato