Cattle death from GM grass

[tb-av]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57459357/gm-grass-linked-to-texas-cattle-deaths/

"Preliminary tests revealed the Tifton 85 grass, which has been here for years, had suddenly started producing cyanide gas, poisoning the cattle."

[VLODPG]

They can keep their genetically modified shit!

[Redmanfms]

Googled Tifton-85, it isn't GMO, it's a hybrid.

[Pilgrim]

What???

Tifton 85 isn't a GMO!

It's a hybrid bermudagrass.

[kmrtnsn]

http://fanninswcd.com/Newsletters/nletter-13-3-1-Tifton_85.pdf

From the reply posts to the original news video,

Jason Bonnette · Works at The University of Texas at Austin
Prussic Acid Poisoning of livestock is a well known phenomenon that has been killing herbivores in times of drought since there were grasses and herbivores.

http://pubstorage.sdstate.edu/AgBio_Publications/articles/ExEx4016.pdf

Tifton 85 bermuda grass is in no way a GMO.

Tifton 85 is an F1 hybrid (like a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey) between PI 290884 and Tifton 68. It is a sterile pentaploid, therefore hybrid seed must be used to plant each new stand. The grass is a perenial though and can grow in perpetuity in the absence of hard freezes. Tifton 68 is a F1 hybrid between PI 255450 and PI 293606. All three accessions in this hybridization scheme are of African origin.

http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/acc/search.pl?accid=PI+290884

http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/acc/search.pl?accid=PI+255450

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