Meaning of ice-minus | Babel Free

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A genetically modified bacterium created from Pseudomona syringae that inhibits the formation of ice crystals, thereby making some crops more frost tolerant.

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“In laboratory experiments, ice-minus conferred frost-tolerance on strawberries on to which it was sprayed.”

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