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Regeneration

The process of restoring a whole plant from individual cells by manipulating an in vitro culture. The growing of a sample of seeds from an accession to replenish the viability of the original accession. It is usually done when the viability of the original material drops to less than 85%.

Sources for this glossary: IPGRI Tech. Bulletin 10: Molecular markers for genebank management and Seed handling in genebanks training course
Glossary open source software by M. Brampton

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