Ice-minus
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ice-minus is a noun meaning A genetically modified bacterium created from Pseudomona syringae that inhibits the formation of ice crystals, thereby making some crops more frost tolerant.
Meaning
A genetically modified bacterium created from Pseudomona syringae that inhibits the formation of ice crystals, thereby making some crops more frost tolerant.
Example Sentences
In laboratory experiments, ice-minus conferred frost-tolerance on strawberries on to which it was sprayed.
Bees are know to carry the natural version of P. syringae after pollinating strawberry plants, but AGS points out that ice-minus poses no threat to other plants or insects.
For ice-minus, the proposed mechanism was that engineered organisms would displace natural ones, and the hazard was a disruption of ecological processes in which ice formation is critical.
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