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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF ICE-MINUS BACTERIA AS A FROST PROTECTANT IN NEW YORK TREE FRUIT PRODUCTION
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| Autores: |
Love, John M.
Lesser, William H.
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| Data: |
2002-10-14
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| Ano: |
1989
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| Palavras-chave: |
Crop Production/Industries
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| 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.
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| Tipo: |
Journal Article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
5965
http://purl.umn.edu/28801
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics>Volume 18, Number 1, April 1989
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| Formato: |
9
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