Ice-fighting bacteria could aid crops against frost damage
date:Mar 30, 2021
beneficial bacteria and other tools to displace ice-promoting strains. Creating conditions unfavorable to harmful strains could reduce dependence on fuel-hungry equipment and conserve water during dry years, which will become more common as the world warms.

Plants are about 90 percent water, and sustain frost damage when ice crystals form between cells and pierce their membranes. In the absence of substances that make ice, they can super cool, or remain liquid at sub-freezing temperatures, Lin
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