Protection of plants against frost injury using ice nucleation-i

Details Protection of plants against frost injury using ice nucleation-i Protection of plants against frost injury using ice nucleation-i

1981-08-17

1983-03-08

Bagwill, Robert E.

Plant husbandry

Frost preventing

424 93, A01G 100

Patent

active

043757340

ABSTRACT:
Frost-sensitive plants are protected against frost injury by topical application thereto of non-phytotoxic virulent bacteriophages which are species-specific to the ice-nucleating bacteria normally present on the plants. The bacteriophages selectively attack the ice-nucleating bacteria and inhibit their ice-nucleating activity, thereby reducing the temperature at which frost injury occurs.

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Biological Control of Plant Pathogens, Baker & Cook, 1974, W. H. Freeman & Co., p. 42.
Plant Cold Hardiness and Freezing Stress, Li & Sakai, 1978, Academic Presa pp. 249-263.
Some Properties of Erwinia . . . , Ritchie et al, PHYTA, vol. 69 (10) 1979, pp. 1078-1083.

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