Damage to crops from frost！

Damage to crops from frost?

Date：9th Jan. 2023   | Source: YSteel    | Author: YSteel

Due to the low temperature below 0℃, the water in the intercellular space of crops forms ice crystals, and the ice crystals continuously absorb the free water of cells and gradually increase the ice crystals, which reduces the water in cells and leads to the dehydration of cytoplasm, the solidification of cytoplasmic colloidal substances and cell wilt. In the process of ice crystal formation and enlargement, mechanical pressure is also generated on cells, resulting in mechanical damage. If the frost is light and the crops have not died, the temperature will gradually rise after the frost, and the cells will slowly thaw and resume their life activities.Autumn crops such as corn, soybeans and cotton are very sensitive to frost before they mature.

【How do you protect yourself against the first frost？】

Available smoke method, irrigation method, spray method, shelter forest method, covering method, and other physical and chemical methods to increase temperature or slow down the cooling rate and the selection of drought-resistant varieties, premature varieties, timely sowing, cultivation of strong seedlings, improved soil and other agricultural methods to prevent frost, reduce harm.

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