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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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