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Researchers put avocados on ice to ensure brunch into the future – Brisbane Times
UQ researchers have frozen avocado shoots and then thawed them out and grown them into viable plants, creating a way to preserve samples almost indefinitely.
“There was a lot of hard work and trial-and-error – when I first started I was getting a lot of dead plants,” he said.
The process involves treating a small cutting from the avocado tree with a glucose solution to get it ready, before freezing it with liquid nitrogen at temperatures about minus 196 degrees.
UQ PhD student Chris O’Brien (right) with Professor Neena Mitter and some of their revived samples.Credit:UQ
Mr OBrien was then able to thaw the cutting and revive it, eventually growing v…
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