Ep. 11 - Nitrogen Fixation & Glyphosate Toxicity with Roger Moore

Jay & Ashlee speak with Roger Moore. Roger is a retired Staff Scientist who worked at the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Hamilton, Montana. He has a PhD in Organic Chemistry, with a focus on synthetic chemistry and prion diseases.

Topics Covered: Prion Diseases, Peak oil & implications for our future, At-home gardening as a silent protest, Haber-Bosch & industrial nitrogen fixation, nitrogen fixation & soil organic matter (SOM), glyphosate toxicity, shikimate pathway & the production of aromatic amino acids, how to calculate your crops' Nitrogen requirements, how to dissociate yourself with Big Ag, closing the loop on the carbon & nitrogen cycle on farm.

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Papers Referenced:

Fan et al. 2017 - doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.09.015

Zhan et al. 2018 - doi:10.1007/s00253-018-9035-0

Singh et al. 2020 - doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207519

Reddy et al. 2004 - https://doi.org/10.1021/jf049605v

Serra et al. 2013 - doi: 10.1093/jxb/ert119

Glyphosate Contamination in our Food

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