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Provedor de dados: 	31	
País: 	United States	
Título: 	THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF ICE-MINUS BACTERIA AS A FROST PROTECTANT IN NEW YORK TREE FRUIT PRODUCTION	
Autores: 	Love,   John M.; Lesser,   William H.	
Data: 	2002-10-14	
Ano: 	1989	
Palavras-chave: 	Crop Production/Industries.	
Resumo: 	Ice-nucleating bacteria, which are known to occur naturally on many crops and have been associated with frost damage, may be subject to control with genetically engineered bacteria, dubbed "ice-minus" bacteria.  Ice-minus technology is designed to depress the critical temperature at which frost damage begins by displacing the natural population of ice-nucleating organisms.  A trial product has been tested in the field with strawberries.  Although tests with bacteriacidal compounds have suggested other mechanisms for controlling the critical temperature in deciduous fruit crops, ice-minus may prove to be effective.  This analysis examines the possibility of ice-minus being adopted by New York tree-fruit growers and the likelihood of it causing a major economic impact on the state's fruit industry.  Based on the climatology, phenology of fruit trees, and the record of actual frost damage in New York, the need for ice-minus is apparently not great enough to conclude that its adoption would cause a significant impact on New York fruit production.	
Tipo: 	Journal Article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	5965

http://purl.umn.edu/28801	
Editor: 	AgEcon Search	
Relação: 	Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics&gt;Volume 18, Number 1, April 1989	
Formato: 	9

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