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Bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum var. latiusculum (Desv.) Underw. ex A. Heller) has long been grown industrially in South Korea. Conventional propagation methods, including planting rhizomes and in vitro seedling culture, are labor intensive and ...
Bo Kook Jang, Ju Sung Cho, Cheol Hee Lee
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The carcinogenicity of bracken fern harvest from two regions of Paraná State to induce hematury in rats was studied. In order to do that, 33 Wistar rats were divided in three groups.
G.D. Cruz +3 more
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Biological Protein Value of Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn
Contemporary human diet is poor in proteins. Therefore, the modern food science should find new sources of high-grade protein. The bracken fern is rich in proteins can be an unconventional solution to this problem. The research objective was to study the
Daria A. Cheremnykh +4 more
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Carcinogenic effects of ptaquiloside in bracken fern and related compounds. [PDF]
Consumption of the bracken fern Pteridium aquilinum by cattle has been shown to induce bladder and intestinal carcinomas in cattle and to cause a number of diseases in other farm animals. An unstable glucoside named ptaquiloside, containing a reactive cyclopropane ring, has been isolated from the fern and its potent carcinogenicity proven.
Potter DM, Baird MS.
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Control of bracken by promoting regeneration of woody vegetation in the Yucatan Peninsula
In the tropical dry forest of the Yucatan Peninsula in southern Mexico, as in many parts of the Neotropics, deforested areas have been colonized by the highly competitive invasive bracken (Pteridium arachnoideum), which inhabits naturally regenerated and
Samuel Israel Levy-Tacher +1 more
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The authors describe a case of acute intoxication by bracken fern ( Pteridium aquilinum) in a cattle herd raised in the city of Reserva, Parana State. A total of 25 animals died due to intoxication caused by the ingestion of large amounts of the toxic ...
Alexandre Amorim Monteiro +5 more
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The author presents a revision about bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum, L. Kuhn), in cattle, raised in the state of the Paraná. This toxic plant represents huge damages to the creators in the state and is being disseminated quickly, becoming the toxic ...
Wilmar Sachetin Marçal
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An outbreak of acute febrile syndrome associated with coagulopathy and severe pancytopenia occurred in cattle grazing in paddocks with high infestation by Adiantopsis chlorophylla.
Luiz Gustavo Schneider de Oliveira +9 more
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Defense of Bracken Fern by Arthropods Attracted to Axillary Nectaries [PDF]
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Matthew M. Douglas
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Bracken fern consumption and human bladder cancer. [PDF]
Brown LM +3 more
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