Sudan grass

Fed hybrid sorghum Sudan grass cross 988 at 15-20 kg/animal daily for 3-8 days... 

Sudan grass (Sorghum sudanense L.) Catch crop Oswald et al. 1999... 

Sorghum-sudan grass S. bicolor X S. vulgare var. sudanense Kinloch and Dunavin, 1993... 

Sudan grass Sorghum vulgare var. sudanense Mojtahedi et al., 1993a... 

Be 0.10 IT1 for Sudan grass to less than 0.05 mg L-1 for rice Toxicity to plants varies widely, ranging from 5 mg... 

Cassava, lima beans, linseed, bamboo sprout, macadamia nuts, hydrangea, Rosaceae family (plum, peach, pear, apple, bitter almond, cherry). Sorghum species (Johnson grass, sorghum, Sudan grass, arrow grass), Linum species (flax, yellow pine flax)... 

Sudan grass poisonings in humans are not reported. Symptoms are expected to be similar to those exhibited in animals. Patients would be treated as for other cyanogenic plant ingestions. 

Animals eating Sudan grass containing low levels of cyanogenic glycosides for prolonged periods (usually... 

Sudan grass is an annual grass with stems up to 9 ft tall that branch from the base. Leaf blades are broad to narrow up to 0.5 in. wide and 12 in. long panicles open. The plant flowers in a 12 in. long, erect, loose panicle that is approximately half as wide as it is tall. It also forms a grass or grain-like glume around seed buds with bristle-shaped tips. 

Sudan Grass, Pages 108-109, Julie Weber SummaryPlus Full Text + Links PDF (58 K)... 

Tony Hooper (Rothamsted Research, UK) discussed local applications of push-pull insect-control strategies with plant-derived semiochemicals and pheromones in the control of crop pests. For example a sudan grass trap crop reduced the number of stem borers on maize grown in adjacent plots. Five thousand African farmers have already been involved in a practical test of the methodology which exploits plant diversity in a very creative way. It was an excellent example of an understanding of chemistry and biotechnology being put to practical use in a local context. 

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