{"id":14413,"date":"2023-08-26T03:37:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T22:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14413"},"modified":"2025-04-02T20:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T14:55:14","slug":"what-is-clethodim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-clethodim\/","title":{"rendered":"What is clethodim?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About clethodim:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>oxime O-ether<\/strong> resulting from the formal conversion of the acyclic keto group of oxime with chloroallyl group.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>used as herbicide<\/strong> that is used to control annual and perennial grasses.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>highly soluble in water<\/strong> and has a low volatility.<\/li>\n<li>It tends not to be persistent in soil or aquatic systems.<\/li>\n<li>It is moderately toxic to birds, fish, aquatic plants, honeybees and earthworms but is less toxic to aquatic invertebrates and algae.<\/li>\n<li>It is moderately toxic to mammals and while it is a skin irritant no evidence of it causing more serious health effects have been found.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Effects on human health<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Exposure to this herbicide will impact <strong>male reproductive function<\/strong> and early embryonic development.<\/li>\n<li>Also it causes reduction in testicular weight, a decrease in germ cell population, lower levels of serum testosterone, abnormalities in sperm, and compromised pre-implantation embryo development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Testosterone?<\/h3>\n<p>Testosterone is a hormone that plays a crucial role in the development and functioning of male reproductive tissues and the promotion of secondary sexual characteristics in males. It belongs to a class of hormones known as androgens and is primarily produced in the testes in males.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/a-silent-threat-to-male-reproductive-health-new-study-raises-concerns-on-use-of-common-herbicide-clethodim\/article67230478.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>A silent threat to male reproductive health: New study raises concerns on the use of common herbicide clethodim<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clethodim is an oxime O-ether resulting from the formal conversion of the acyclic keto group of oxime with chloroallyl group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}