Thursday, November 2, 2017

Glyphosate herbicide negatively affects soil-friendly bacteria, study shows


 
What this tells us is that we need to test every species in the soil against the negative effects of roundup.  Add in testing it against every biological system in the animal kingdom as well and you discover that responsible research has barely begun.
 
This is why agriculture is now shifting smartly toward organic methods and a philosophy of permaculture.  We have been way too naive top to bottom.
 
At the same time i do think that the worst has been done and push back against roundup is happening both by the community and by nature itself.. .

Glyphosate herbicide negatively affects soil-friendly bacteria, study shows 
 
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/10/12/glyphosate-herbicide-negatively-affects-soil-friendly-bacteria-study-shows/


Cornell researchers found negative consequences of the weed-killing herbicide glyphosate on pseudomonas, a soil-friendly bacteria [read the full study here].


[Gyphosate] applied to crops can drain into the soil and disrupt the molecular factories in the bacterial cells in some species, interfering with their metabolic and amino acid machinery.

The new findings show that glyphosate does not target the amino acid production and metabolic gadgetry equally among the pseudomonas species.

For example, when Pseudomonas protegens, a bacteria used as a biocontrol agent for cereal crops, and Pseudomonas fluorescens, used as a fungus biocontrol for fruit trees, were exposed to varying glyphosate concentrations, the researchers noted no ill effects.

However, in two species of Pseudomonas putida used in soil fungus control for corn and other crops, the bacteria had notably stunted growth, said Aristilde, who is a faculty fellow at Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.

“Thus, if a farmer is using Pseudomonas fluorescens as a biocontrol, then it is probably OK to use glyphosate,” Aristilde said. “But if the farmer uses Pseudomonas putida to control the fungus in the soil, then glyphosate is more likely to prevent the bacteria from doing its job.”

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