Fusarium
Mycotoxins:


Vomitoxin



Nivalenol



Lycomarasmin



Fusariotoxin
T2-Toxin,



Fusaric Acid



Fumonisin B1


New! Fusarium mycotoxins: chemical names list.


Chemical Herbicides


Soil Solarization


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This site is dedicated to the open investigation of mycoherbicides.

Drug Control or Biowarfare?

The US was strong-
arming Colombia into unleashing the latest weapon in the war on drugs: a powerful new herbicide. But along with killing coca plants, the toxic fungus may pose serious dangers to the environment and human health -- threats so compelling that Florida has suspended plans to test the fungus for its own anti-drug efforts.
Go to Article
DoS response


Dr. Oswaldo Jave on
Fusariosis in Humans
(Download 
Powerpoint File
)



Huallaga Trip story: 
Peruvian scientist
views F. oxysporum


New Scientist Editorial: A very unholy war/
Attacking opium and coca farms with bioweapons sounds great...to officials


And now for
some more fundamental research:

Glyphosate (Roundup) & Fusarium

Glifosato y Fusarium


Fumonisin in US corn: Corn toxin examined in border birth defects Diet may have put Hispanics at risk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      Mycoherbicides are fungi that are being developed by various government, private, academic, and international entities to kill drugplant "weeds".  

    This site will attempt to consider many aspects of the proposed and actual use of mycoherbicides against drug crops:  i.e. marijuana, coca, and opium, including issues of mutability and toxicity that are rarely discussed by their proponents.



Mycoherbicides worldwide-NEW THREATS


News:

Mycoherbicide Redux: U.S. Congressmen Declare Biological,   War on South America in New Antidrug Proposal
El micoherbicida está de vuelta: El congreso de los  Estados   Unidos declaró la guerra biológica a Sur América en una nueva propuesta . Jeremy Bigwood The Narco News Bulletin 25/07/05


Polémica en Estados Unidos por propuesta de utilizar hongo en erradicación de cultivos ilícitos, El Tiempo, Agosto 10 de 2005


Tontos, ciegos, sordomudos
Se reabre el debate del uso de micoherbicidas en las fumigaciones de cultivos ilícitos
 Elizabeth López González


Round-up Ready Sudden Death Syndrome Prof. Joe Cummins finds evidence that Roundup Ready causes sudden death and other diseases by boosting Fusarium in the soil.
ISIS Press Release 30/11/03


Scientists Link GM Crop Weed Killer to Powerful Fungus  Jeremy Bigwood, IPS 08/20/03
CounterPunch version


MENTION OF AFGHAN POPPY BLIGHT:
AFGHAN OPIUM CULTIVATES NEW CONVERTS
Victoria Burnett, Boston Globe (MA), Sun, 17 Aug 2003

Scientists eye Glyphosate-Fusarium link, July 9 Western Producer (Canada)


Fungus: new weapon against opium
The Washington Times 07/08/03

Israeli mycoherbicide research: 
Beneficial tool or
Weapon of mass-destruction?


Investigarán hongo "come-coca," La República
Lima, 11 de marzo, 2003

U.S. Moves Towards Biological Warfare in Colombia  from the US NGO PANUPS January 24, 2003

COLOMBIA: US considers new bioweapon attack
 JEFFREY ST CLAIR Green Left Weekly, January 22, 2003

Ecuador's Lucio Era Begins: Drug War, Plan Colombia, and US Air Base at Manta, Test the New President. Ron Smith, Narco News Service Quito, Ecuador Jan 21, 2003

The Temptation of Dr. Weed
Jed
Gottlieb, The Missoula Independent 01/16/03

The Drug War According to Dr. Mengele:
Agent Green Over the Andes Jeffrey St. Clair


SUNSHINE BROADSIDE on Congressional mycoherbicide program renewal.

The QUORN fiasco:  CSPI (Center for Science in the Public Interest) calls for a recall of the "Quorn" meat substitute because it may contain Fusariotoxins such as vomitoxin.  Quorn is a protein extracted from Fusarium venenatum, which normally produces mycotoxins.  CSPI's letter to the FDA   CSPI Press Release

AFGHANISTAN: U.N., U.K. Developing Anti-Opium Fungus, Newspaper Reports UN Wire


Watch your Wheaties:  Fusarium scab on Wheat in USA
A.P. wire July 21, 2001


Cuts—And Cash for Coke Crackdown
[Mycoherbicides in Bush Budget}
Newsweek magazine through MSNBC


The Covert Biowar Against Drugs In Central Asia Times of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan) Dr. John C.K. Daly, Analyst at the Middle East Institute, Washington, DC  17 Jan 2001


Featured Items:

SALSA Lecture, Annapolis, Maryland, June 8, 2002


Andean Nations Say No To Coca-killing Fungus
Sharon Stevenson
 
DoS response


Declaración del Comité Andino de Autoridades Ambientales (CAAAM) donde rechazan el propuesto uso de técnicas de biocontrol contra cultivos ilícitos  In English  DoS response


Britain's Secret War On Drugs
BBC PANORAMA uncovers the controversial biological weapon that's being developed to destroy the world's drug crops


Jeremy Bígwood's speech on Mycoherbicides and Biochemical warfare (Mycoherbicidas y la guerra bioquímica)
ENCUENTRO INTERNATIONAL "USO DE ARMAS BIOLÓGICAS EN LA GUERRA CONTRA LAS DROGAS"  Quito, 10 y 11 de Octubre del 2000


The first article on this subject: 
Peru Farmers Blame U.S. For Coca-killing Fungus,
Sharon Stevenson, Miami Herald, 1991


Sharon Stevenson's Rejoinder to the U.S. State Department's "INL Press Guidance: Fact Sheet: Colombia/UNDCP Mycoherbicide Project"
El fusarium no se utilizará en selvas colombianas
(Fusarium will not be used in the Colombian jungles)
Entrevista con Phillip Chicola, DoS
Interview with Phillip Chicola, State Dept.

Mycoherbicides and Clinton:  THE WHITE HOUSE 
Office of the Press Secretary (South Brunswick, New Jersey) 
For Immediate Release   August 23, 2000 
August 22, 2000  Pres. Determination No.  2000-28