Acclimation losses

See it

Plantlets leaving in-vitro culture face major changes in humidity, light, water relations, substrate, microbes, and gas exchange. Losses during acclimatization can therefore reflect the quality of the in-vitro plantlet as well as the transition environment.

Understand it

Try it

Explain the concept in your own words, then identify what plant, explant, stage, units, source, or observation context would need to be preserved before applying it.

Apply it

Connect this lesson to an actual MyTCLab record: what fields would you need in order to know later exactly what happened and why?