Channa Prakash
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Professor, biotech guru. I am curious about science, farming, food security, innovation, plants, history. @AAAS Fellow.
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China may send 100,000 ducks to Pakistan to battle locust swarms. Pakistan has declared an emergency saying locust numbers were the worst in more than two decades. A single duck can eat more than 200 locusts a day, more effective than pesticides: expert
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Solar panels on canals in India. Doesn’t take extra land, prevents evaporative loss and keeps the solar panels cool.
@reddit
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Amazing story of the revival of Pawnee Eagle Corn - Grown by native Americans, thought to be extinct. One family had saved last 50 kernels taken with them when they were exiled from Nebraska to Oklahoma in the 1870s. “It tastes like almonds with cream”
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Forbidden dessert. Tabuk Mountain in Saudi Arabia. When it has snowed, & sand has blown over it, you get Tiramisu
@imgur
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What did you do when you were 4? This munchkin from
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🇨🇦 Advait Kolarkar is selling his paintings for $2000 a pop!
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Bag of water to slow down the irrigation to ensure that soils gets well hydrated evenly
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Biological control at work. Friendly lady bird beetle munching on aphids, crop pests
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A sea slug that can do photosynthesis just like a plant! It takes genes from the algae it eats to perform photosynthesis and thus get all the energy it needs from sunlight, allowing it to survive without food for months! Clever eh?
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Ancient Inca musical instruments mimic animal sounds using only the flow of water. The shamanic tools called whistling vessels or huaco silbadors. Most of the original vessels are estimated to have been made around 500 BC – 1200 AD in Peru. Sound on!
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Top row is GM corn, bottom is Non-GMO corn, not sprayed with pesticide or fungicide. Bottom corn is infected with fungi causing carcinogenic mycotoxins that can kill the livestock; cause esophageal cancer & neural tube defects in humans
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A pineapple farm. Did you know it takes 3 years for them grow until harvest?
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Everyone loves scientists until they say something you don’t like ☹️
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Elephant toothpaste. Hydrogen peroxide in toothpaste
Recipe
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This woman was doing aerobics in Myanmar unaware of the military vehicles going behind her to overthrow the government in a coup. Sound on!
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Tomato 🍅 biodiversity. How many types have you tried so far?
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Potato 🥔 GM and NON-GM varieties compared in Uganda. Any question?
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To produce 10 bushels of corn, how much land was required over the years? Compared 1940 to 2019! Thanks
#science
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Scorpion 🦂 farm! The scorpion venom is the most expensive liquid in the world, $ 10,302,700 per litre, used for the treatment of autoimmune disorders, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis.
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How stupidity is destroying a country. Sri Lankan leader banned fertilizer and pesticides. Now, massive crop failures across the country has led him to declare an economic emergency. What happens if you listen to ideologues. Cue to 16th minute.
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Ha, one million impressions already in 16 hours for the 'evil' trick-or-treat! 😈
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Scientists Revive 32,000-Year-Old Plant Right Out of the Pleistocene: The oldest plant ever to be “resurrected” has been grown from 32,000-year-old seeds, beating the previous record holder by some 30,000 years.
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Horse trained in ‘cutting’ keeps cow back as the rancher tags calf. Now what can your cat or dog do?
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A game changer! Scientists gene-edit a microbe to fix nitrogen in corn, reducing the use of synthetic fertilizer! Klebsiella variicola was altered to fix a whopping 122 times more nitrogen than the the natural strain.
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Wonder why farmers love GM crops? Decide yourself. Bt corn 🌽 on the right; Non-Bt corn on left, sprayed twice. From a farm in Uruguay. Photo sent by farmer Gabriel Carballal
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18-year old high school student wins $250,000 prize for potato blight solution that could save billions. He mapped disease data and weather patterns to predict where spores that cause potato late blight would spread to next
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Vertical farm in Singapore, produces 100 Kg of vegetables per tower. System produces 10 times more food per hectare than conventional farm, uses very little energy or water, is relatively maintenance-free and produces green vegetables in 28 days or less
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You are looking at the oldest plant ever to be regenerated, grown from 32,000-year-old seeds! A Russian team discovered a seed cache of Silene stenophylla, native to Siberia buried by an Ice Age squirrel, successfully germinated it
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Maybe CDC should have been more specific than just “wear a mask”?
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Where your red color in food & lipstick 💄 comes from: cactus bugs!
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Farm residents save their friends from an attack by a raptor
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Terrace rice fields in China or Phillipines. Sound on for rooster & dog
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My Uber driver Maurice Boda in Washington DC turned out to be a vaccine researcher from Cameroon, gave me an exciting lecture on the way to the airport on immunology & conspiracy theories fueling the anti-vaxxers in Africa
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Confluence of two rivers in Geneva, Switzerland. The Rhone on left is just exiting freshwater Lake Lehman. The Arve, on right, receives water from the many glaciers of the Chamonix valley (mainly the Mer de Glace) has higher level of silt
@reddit
@Wikipedia
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Jimmy Red corn, used by bootleggers to make moonshine whiskey, went extinct in the early 2000s, but two remaining ears of
#corn
were used to revive it. Now, the heirloom corn is thriving in the South, and being used widely by chefs and distillers
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A street seller kid in India speaks a dozen global languages! Unmute
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French bee keepers could not solve the mystery of blue & green honey in their beehives until they discovered that the bees were feeding on M&M candy shells from a nearby chocolate factory!
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Perfectly preserved ice layer from the leaf
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Jonathan the tortoise in 1900 and now. He is 182 years, oldest living land creature known!
http://t.co/LDpcdPSA6z
http://t.co/HRRlvJ5Tk9
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Sandhof lily, Namibia. On area of 800 (1700 acres) hectares, it flowers only when 30 cm (11 in) of rain fills the pan for the dormant bulbs to sprout, and then this glory lasts just three days of flowering
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Meanwhile in the Italian senate, when the senator refuses to wear a mask.
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Wax palm, world’s tallest palm, Cocora, Colombia. Horse for scale.
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Now that the duck story has gone viral, here’s greatest meme thread on ducks ever!
What did the Chinese duck say to the locust swarm in Pakistan?
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GMO or NON? A potato plot in Uganda testing against the late blight disease, that killed two million Irish in the 19th century. Only the transgenic survive, has just one extra gene from a wild potato strain. Still against this tech for Africa?
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The Potato Park in Cusco, Peru is a living museum of potato 🥔, ranging up to to 4,900 metres (16,000 feet) above sea level, has “maintained one of the highest diversities of native potatoes in the world, in a constant process of evolution...”
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Mother duck 🦆 protecting the ducklings against a heron
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When you need through tall crops without crushing them
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@aliqasim
Just add two genes phytoene synthase & phytoene desaturase, watch the rice grains produce β-carotene, the precursor to vitamin A! Viola, Golden Rice! Bonus? Can save the lives and eyesights of a million children!
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Hero! Forget Bt, a farmer invents a gadget to remove Colorado beetles from his potato 🥔 crop!
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Claas Jaguar forage harvester. Likely harvesting triticale for silage
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Ingo Potrykus, father of Golden Rice just turned 90. Let’s hope he would live long enough to see his creation is released in more countries help save sights and lives of people who everywhere with vitamin A deficiency
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Samarkand Bread 🥯 in Uzbekistan, how are they shaped and baked
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