How does spkinkling plants with water in the winter prevent

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How does spkinkling plants with water in the winter prevent

Post by kbollen » Tue Sep 06, 2005 11:26 pm

How does sprinkling plants with water in the winter prevent frost damage?
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Post by iri_black » Wed Sep 07, 2005 10:23 am

Never heard of such thing! :?
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Post by mothorc » Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:24 pm

There 're two mechanism. Animal can use these antifreeze binding protein to knockout the frozen-nuclei. So their tissue still not frozen at 0oC below Or in plant, water will move out of the cell, they will sleep as seed. Plant can use the mechaism of (or like) animal, because they found that ABA (absicisacid) can prevent frozen.
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