#sorghum — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sorghum, aggregated by home.social.
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#CRISPR/Cas9 knockout of the Dry gene in grain #sorghum cultivar LNH19 leads to a juicy stem with higher #sugar content, resulting in higher yields, improved forage digestibility and better straw decomposition.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70353
@WileyLifeSci
#JIPB #PlantSci #agriculture -
#CRISPR/Cas9 knockout of the Dry gene in grain #sorghum cultivar LNH19 leads to a juicy stem with higher #sugar content, resulting in higher yields, improved forage digestibility and better straw decomposition.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70353
@WileyLifeSci
#JIPB #PlantSci #agriculture -
A Month After #Trump Doubles Down on #Atrazine, #WHO Dubs It ‘Probably #Carcinogenic to Humans’
“It is outrageously irresponsible that we still allow use of this dangerous #poison in the United States,” said the Center for Biological Diversity’s environmental health science director.
Jessica Corbett
Nov 21, 2025"Just a month after the Trump administration doubled down on the alleged safety of atrazine, a United Nations agency said on Friday that the pesticide—which is banned by dozens of countries but commonly used on #corn, #sugarcane, and #sorghum in the United States—probably causes #cancer.
" 'It is outrageously irresponsible that we still allow use of this dangerous poison in the United States,' said Nathan Donley, the Center for Biological Diversity’s environmental health science director, in a Friday statement. 'This finding is just the latest indictment of the industry-controlled US #pesticide oversight process that is failing to protect people and #wildlife from chemicals linked to numerous health harms.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/atrazine-herbicide
#CommonDreams #EPAFail #Bayer
#ToxicPesticides #Monocrops
#Monocrap #BigAg #BigChem #Poison #USPol #WorldPol #Pesticides #CenterForBiologlicalDiversity -
'The Mennonite and Amish communities consider #sorghum syrup not only a practical and reliable sugar crop—resilient even amidst drought and other environmental extremes—but also a link to family and community far and near, past and present.' https://www.saveur.com/culture/anabaptist-sorghum-harvest/ #foodhistory #Anabaptist
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'The Mennonite and Amish communities consider #sorghum syrup not only a practical and reliable sugar crop—resilient even amidst drought and other environmental extremes—but also a link to family and community far and near, past and present.' https://www.saveur.com/culture/anabaptist-sorghum-harvest/ #foodhistory #Anabaptist
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'The Mennonite and Amish communities consider #sorghum syrup not only a practical and reliable sugar crop—resilient even amidst drought and other environmental extremes—but also a link to family and community far and near, past and present.' https://www.saveur.com/culture/anabaptist-sorghum-harvest/ #foodhistory #Anabaptist