SCIENCE A protein on plants causes the frost and ice not the water and temp.

I find this interesting

[link to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Abstract

Ice nucleation activity and the iceC gene product were quantified in different subcellular fractions of the Pseudomonas syringae source strain and in Escherichia coli containing the cloned iceC gene to determine the activity of this protein in different subcellular locations. Ice nuclei were nearly completely retained during isolation of cell envelopes but exhibited a decrease in the temperature at which they were expressed. Ice nucleation activity was found in Triton X-100 insoluble membrane fragments as well as in slowly sedimenting and high-density membrane fragments. Nearly all ice nucleation activity was associated with the outer membrane because the partitioning of 3-ketodeoxyoctonate (a lipopolysaccharide component) and ice nuclei in cell fractions were similar to and opposite that of NADH oxidase (a cytoplasmic membrane component). The iceC gene product had an apparent mass of 150,000 Da based on migration in SDS-polyacrylamide gels.


that was a snip

Maybe we may be able to find a way to protect our plants from frost, freeze. I would be up for that and all this weird weather. Some GMO I would try to do myself.