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| Title: | THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF ICE-MINUS BACTERIA AS A FROST PROTECTANT IN NEW YORK TREE FRUIT PRODUCTION |
| Authors: | Love, John M.
Lesser, William H. |
| Issue Date: | 1989-04 |
| Abstract: | 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. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/28801 |
| Institution/Association: | Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics>Volume 18, Number 1, April 1989 |
| Total Pages: | 9 |
| Language: | English |
| From Page: | 26 |
| To Page: | 34 |
| Collections: | Volume 18, Number 1, April 1989
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