ice-minus
nounEtymology
Coined by Stephen Lindlow because it lacks the gene he calls "ice" that creates a protein which provides a regular surface for the formation of ice.
Definitions
A genetically modified bacterium created from Pseudomona syringae that inhibits the…
A genetically modified bacterium created from Pseudomona syringae that inhibits the formation of ice crystals, thereby making some crops more frost tolerant.
- 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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for ice-minus. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA