Claim · model-written summary
Rapid freezing in liquid nitrogen and rapid thawing at 30 C allowed storage without a cryoprotectant.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Material
- Kc 146e0
- Organ / stage
- fruit mitochondriae0
- Treatment
- frozen quickly by immersion in liquid nitrogen and later thawed quickly at 30 Ce0
- Outcome
- stored successfully in the frozen statee0
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Verbatim
e0“Isolated tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum var. Kc 146) fruit mitochondria could be stored successfully in the frozen state without a cryoprotective agent if the mitochondria were frozen quickly by immersion in liquid nitrogen and later thawed quickly at 30 C.”
Title
David B. Dickinson; M. Joan Misch; Robert E. Drury PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1970. doi:10.1104/pp.46.2.200
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Intermediate storage at -5, -10 or -18 C markedly reduced mitochondrial respiration.
- Intervention effect Intermediate storage at -5, -10 or -18 C caused loss of mitochondrial respiratory control.
- Intervention effect Five-percent dimethylsulfoxide prevented freezing damage at -5 C.
- Intervention effect Five-percent dimethylsulfoxide did not prevent freezing damage at -10 or -18 C.
- Method / resource Isolated tomato mitochondria show promise as a model of freezing damage and cryoprotectant action.