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Impacts of cereal ergot in food animal production
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2016 The negative impacts of ergot contamination of grain on the health of humans and animals were first documented during the 5th century AD. Although ergotism is now rare in humans, cleaning contaminated grain concentrates ergot bodies in screenings which ...
Stephanie eCoufal-Majewski +7 more
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Plant-symbiotic fungi as chemical engineers: multi-genome analysis of the Clavicipitaceae reveals dynamics of alkaloid Loci [PDF]
, 2013 The fungal family Clavicipitaceae includes plant symbionts and parasites that produce several psychoactive and bioprotective alkaloids. The family includes grass symbionts in the epichloae clade (Epichloë and Neotyphodium species), which are ...
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Jornal Vascular Brasileiro, 2009 Os derivados da ergotamina compõem diversas drogas amplamente utilizadas no tratamento de ataques agudos de migrânea. A intoxicação por estas substâncias resulta geralmente de sua administração crônica, promovendo sintomas secundários ao espasmo arterial
Edison Barreto de Souza +1 more
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Development and adoption of Kernza—A perennial grain crop for sustainable agriculture
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Annual cereal grains account for ~50% of human food calories, but cultivation of these crops has resulted in major environmental and social issues worldwide. For nearly three decades, researchers have been breeding intermediate wheatgrass—a perennial cool‐season grass—to serve as the world's first commercial‐scale perennial grain crop to improve ...
Jessica L. Gutknecht +15 more
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Hospitaller activities in medieval Malta [PDF]
, 2007 The Medieval Period in the Mediterranean World is generaly considered to cover a period of about a thousand years, and is considered to initiate with the end of the Roman era heralded by the division of the Roman Empure into two parts between the sons of
Savona-Ventura, Charles
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The identification of QTL controlling ergot sclerotia size in hexaploid wheat implicates a role for the Rht dwarfing alleles [PDF]
, 2015 The fungal pathogen Claviceps purpurea infects ovaries of a broad range of temperate grasses and cereals, including hexaploid wheat, causing a disease commonly known as ergot.
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Is the endophyte‐based plant protection against aphids mediated by changes in the insect microbiome?
Insect Science, EarlyView.We showed that the fungal endophyte Epichloë strain AR37 increased the plant resistance against aphids via the production of indole diterpene alkaloids. The reduction in aphid performance was not associated with changes in abundance/composition/diversity of the insect's bacterial microbiota, but additional endophyte effects on this microbiota cannot be
Daniel A. Bastías +5 more
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A current approach to serotonin syndrome
Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2021 Serotonin syndrome is a rare but life-threatening and potentially fatal adverse reaction and it usually due to serotonergic agents, which increase the levels of serotonin in the central nervous system.
Samuray Özdemir, Neşe Kocabaşoğlu
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The Black Devil Called Ergot [PDF]
, 2010 The hypothesis that a certain fungus, known as ergot, might be somehow connected to the events occurring around Salem Village in 1691/2 has been controversial. The article “Ergotism: Satan Loose in Salem, ” by Linnda R.
Featherly, Joseph
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Underutilised crops in Europe: An interdisciplinary approach towards sustainable practices
Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract In the context of a rapidly growing global population and significant climatic and environmental change, there is an urgent need to produce nutritious food in a sustainable manner. Some crops are underutilised in Europe, despite their suitability to local environments, viability for sustainable production and potential to improve diets.
Meriel McClatchie +18 more
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