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Energies of Freezing and Frost Desiccation ¹

^a Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Michigan State University and United States Department of Agriculture, East Lansing, Michigan 48824

A stable cellulose paper system was studied to relate water distribution data, as obtained previously from plant tissues, to the analysis of freezing energy. Water distribution data for the cellulose system were obtained by several techniques and were coordinated with calorimetric data. The effect of the cellulose system on the latent heat of freezing was evaluated to estimate activation energies as functions of the amount of associated liquid water. Similar activation energies of water phase transitions in critical plant tissue systems may be heritable characteristics that affect freezing stress. Adhesion energy, that develops between ice and hydrophilic polymer systems as they compete for liquid water in a complex interface, was suggested as one possible source of freezing stress. This does not occur in frost desiccation.

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