Boreal pollen contain ice-nucleating as well as ice-binding ‘antifreeze’ polysaccharides
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Boreal pollen contain ice-nucleating as well as ice-binding ‘antifreeze’ polysaccharides
Ice nucleation and growth is an important and widespread environmental process. Accordingly, nature has developed means to either promote or inhibit ice crystal formation, for example ice-nucleating proteins in bacteria or ice-binding antifreeze proteins in polar fish. Recently, it was found that birch pollen release ice-nucleating macromolecules when suspended in water. Here we show that birch...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scientific Reports
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/srep41890