Abstract
Abstract Strategies for reducing bacterially induced frost damage to tender plants were examined. Introduction of the competitive bacterium, Erwinia herbicola M232A (not active in ice nucleation) did not lower the temperature at which freeze injury of tomato shoots occurred. Streptomycin was effective in reducing freeze damage of tomato shoots only when mixed with the Pseudomonas syringae suspension prior to plant inoculation. Spectinomycin, another aminoglycoside, was effective in reducing frost damage to tomato plants due to P. syringae. Bacteria present intercellularly (within the plant) may play a significant role in bacterial ice nucleation.
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