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What are frost protected plants?

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Soil bacterium Pseudomonas syringae contains a gene that promotes ice nucleation. Using gene technology, this gene is deleted and a mutant P. syringae is engineered known as INA or ice minus strain and it prevents frost (ice) formation when sprayed on crops.
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