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Clover cyanide?

 
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Apparently clover leaves produce cyanide five minutes after dying (being plucked or tilled or decaying). My question is what happens if you till it into soil (clay soil that needs to be improved this way due to lack of external resources).

Would it contaminate the soil? The same question could be posed about cherry, poisonous plants, etc.
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Not something I had ever heard about so I went and looked it up.

https://source.wustl.edu/2007/10/genetic-differences-in-clover-make-one-type-toxic/

A nice little primer, which states that only some clovers produce cyanide and those are mainly the ones growing in hot places, cold climate clovers do not bother. There seems to be a lot of research on this topic and the only warning I can find is that sheep in late pregnancy when feeding on a substantial proportion of clover could suffer complications, I read that to be over 50%

I also found that cyanide is everywhere, it's in the air in water absolutely everywhere.

Akcil A, Mudder T. 2003. Microbial destruction of cyanide wastes in gold mining:  Process review. Biotechnol Lett 25:445-450.  this paper deals with biodegredation of cyanide and states that soluble cyanide biodegrades readily (that bound to metals doesn't)

Cyanogenesis, the ability to produce hydrogen cyanide (HCN) after tissue damage, occurs in >3000 plant species

I feel this is not something one can worry about Link

 
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Yep. Cyanide compounds are generally only a problem if you eat them.
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