Cold Resistant Plants

Function

Plants existing in intensely cold climates synthesize and store sugar as nourishment within their cells, thereby protecting themselves from the danger of freezing.

Functional Classification

Defense/Stability:
Cold resistance

Environmental Solution Classification

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Technical Application

Plants ability to resist cold temperatures can be used to create food that takes advantage of the highly concentrated sugar synthesized by plants in cold climates.

Products and Services

  • Bird’s-eye maple syrup and ice wine made from grapes utilize the highly concentrated sugar synthesized by plants in cold temperatures.

Type of Business

Proposals of Applied Technology

Investigations into the genetic makeup of cold-resistant trees can be used to develop new cold-resistant species by isolating the genes responsible for the plants’ resistance to freezing and inserting them into the genes of plants that do not possess such resistance. This could lead to the creation of vegetables that can endure outdoor cultivation, where they now must be grown in vinyl greenhouses in order to survive.

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