Channa Prakash
@agbioworld.bsky.social
Professor, biotech guru. I am curious about science, farming, food security, innovation, plants, history. @AAAS Fellow
Welcome to the club Dr. David Ortega! As a past laureate of the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) Borlaug Communication Award, I congratulate you on this honor for 2025. See you in Washington in December!
cast-science.org/2025-bcca/
cast-science.org/2025-bcca/
September 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Welcome to the club Dr. David Ortega! As a past laureate of the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) Borlaug Communication Award, I congratulate you on this honor for 2025. See you in Washington in December!
cast-science.org/2025-bcca/
cast-science.org/2025-bcca/
The weeping beech, Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula', is a cultivar of the deciduous European beech. The original tree was found in the grounds of an English park, and it has been propagated by grafting, then many distributed widely @wikipedia
August 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The weeping beech, Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula', is a cultivar of the deciduous European beech. The original tree was found in the grounds of an English park, and it has been propagated by grafting, then many distributed widely @wikipedia
Smart insect pretending to be a stick!
August 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Smart insect pretending to be a stick!
The Race for Global Food Security: Free session on the innovations from the spheres of genomics, advanced biology, and AI with the potential to transform the global food system. @FT Register at event-registration.ft.com/register/2fe...
August 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The Race for Global Food Security: Free session on the innovations from the spheres of genomics, advanced biology, and AI with the potential to transform the global food system. @FT Register at event-registration.ft.com/register/2fe...
Science at the service of humanity. s/
August 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Science at the service of humanity. s/
My Facebook page AgBioWorld with 110k followers has been hacked or taken down by FB! Another called The Story has changed its name to Agbioworld. See www.facebook.com/forestislandy Frustratingly FB is not responding to my complaints. Can someone help me on how I can have this page restored?
July 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
My Facebook page AgBioWorld with 110k followers has been hacked or taken down by FB! Another called The Story has changed its name to Agbioworld. See www.facebook.com/forestislandy Frustratingly FB is not responding to my complaints. Can someone help me on how I can have this page restored?
Bombardier beetle sprays hot, toxic chemical as a defense against predators that can reach temperatures of boiling water
July 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Bombardier beetle sprays hot, toxic chemical as a defense against predators that can reach temperatures of boiling water
Must be for growing tomatoes ;)
July 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Must be for growing tomatoes ;)
😞 Poachers have killed two extremely rare white giraffes in Kenya, leaving just one in the world. The 2 giraffes to be killed were a mother and her seven-month-old calf. The white appearance of the giraffe is due to leucism, a genetic condition
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
July 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
😞 Poachers have killed two extremely rare white giraffes in Kenya, leaving just one in the world. The 2 giraffes to be killed were a mother and her seven-month-old calf. The white appearance of the giraffe is due to leucism, a genetic condition
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
Cancer is now less deadly than you think, thanks to science! The world is making impressive progress averting cancer. And there are more improvements to come
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
July 20, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Cancer is now less deadly than you think, thanks to science! The world is making impressive progress averting cancer. And there are more improvements to come
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
Lives saved by MAHA? Zero!
July 20, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Lives saved by MAHA? Zero!
Now that the Neanderthals are back in charge
July 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Now that the Neanderthals are back in charge
July 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Your chances of having both your marriage AND career simultaneously destroyed while attending a Coldplay concert are slim but never zero. 😂
H.t. Carol Carroll
H.t. Carol Carroll
July 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Your chances of having both your marriage AND career simultaneously destroyed while attending a Coldplay concert are slim but never zero. 😂
H.t. Carol Carroll
H.t. Carol Carroll
July 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Blueberry harvesting
July 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Blueberry harvesting
Onion root tip cells showing different stages of mitosis (cell division)
www.reddit.com/r/biology/s/...
www.reddit.com/r/biology/s/...
July 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Onion root tip cells showing different stages of mitosis (cell division)
www.reddit.com/r/biology/s/...
www.reddit.com/r/biology/s/...
Meanwhile in Alabama
July 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Meanwhile in Alabama
Americans get an average of 12 mg/day anthocyanins from their diet but really need 100-500 mg/day, to derive health benefits. A single serving of GMO Norfolk Purple Tomatoes™ delivers about this amount
www.norfolkhealthyproduce.com/pages/health
www.norfolkhealthyproduce.com/pages/health
July 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Americans get an average of 12 mg/day anthocyanins from their diet but really need 100-500 mg/day, to derive health benefits. A single serving of GMO Norfolk Purple Tomatoes™ delivers about this amount
www.norfolkhealthyproduce.com/pages/health
www.norfolkhealthyproduce.com/pages/health
How it looks after metamorphosis!
July 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
How it looks after metamorphosis!
Chinese bushbrown caterpillar, Mycalesis gotama, is an East Palearctic species of satyrine butterfly found in China, Japan, Assam, Burma, the northeastern Himalayas and northern Vietnam
July 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Chinese bushbrown caterpillar, Mycalesis gotama, is an East Palearctic species of satyrine butterfly found in China, Japan, Assam, Burma, the northeastern Himalayas and northern Vietnam
Our ancestors did this and did that
July 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Our ancestors did this and did that