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ice-minus
[ ahys-mahy-nuhs ]
adjective
- noting or pertaining to genetically altered bacteria used on crops to inhibit frost formation.
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The bacteria were successful as well as trackable: ice-minus appears to reduce frost damage early in the growing season by up to 80%.
In the laboratory, leaves coated with the microbes have briefly withstood temperatures as low as 23 degrees F. In 1982 Lindow and Panopoulos applied for permission to treat potatoes with ice-minus.
In 1983 Lindow got permission from the NIH to test his bugs, which he called ice-minus, on a small plot of potatoes in Northern California.
Outside the courtroom, Rifkin warned that the widespread use of ice-minus would lead to all sorts of natural disasters, including the disruption of rainfall patterns.
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