Troublesome toxins: time to re-think plant-herbivore interactions in vertebrate ecology [PDF]
BMC Ecology, 2009 Earlier models of plant-herbivore interactions relied on forms of functional response that related rates of ingestion by herbivores to mechanical or physical attributes such as bite size and rate. These models fail to predict a growing number of findings
Feng Zhilan +3 more
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Plant toxins and acute medicinal plant poisoning in children: A systematic literature review. [PDF]
J Res Med Sci, 2018 Background: For many years, medicinal plants and herbal therapy have been widely used in different societies for the treatment of various diseases. Besides their therapeutic potency, some of the medicinal plants have strong toxicity in human, especially ...
Ghorani-Azam A +5 more
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Identification and Functional Characterization of Plant Toxins [PDF]
Toxins, 2021 The evolutionary arms race between plants and herbivores has led, over millions of years, to the production of many substances that prevent plants from being over-eaten by plant-feeding animals [...]
Zbigniew Adamski +3 more
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Effects of dietary exposure to plant toxins on bioaccumulation, survival, and growth of black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae and lesser mealworm (Alphitobius diaperinus) [PDF]
HeliyonIn their natural habitat, insects may bioaccumulate toxins from plants for defence against predators. When insects are accidently raised on feed that is contaminated with toxins from co-harvested herbs, this may pose a health risk when used for human or ...
Patrick P.J. Mulder +5 more
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A sensitive LC-MS/MS method for the quantification of the plant toxins hypoglycin A and methylenecyclopropylglycine and their metabolites in cow's milk and urine and application to farm milk samples from Germany. [PDF]
Anal Bioanal Chem, 2023 El-Khatib AH, Lamp J, Weigel S.
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Inhibiting Microbial Toxins Using Plant-Derived Compounds and Plant Extracts [PDF]
Medicines, 2015 Many pathogenic bacteria and fungi produce potentially lethal toxins that cause cytotoxicity or impaired cellular function either at the site of colonization or other locations in the body through receptor-mediated interactions.
Abhinav Upadhyay +5 more
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How Plant Toxins Cause Early Larval Mortality in Herbivorous Insects: An Explanation by Modeling the Net Energy Curve [PDF]
ToxinsPlants store chemical defenses that act as toxins against herbivores, such as toxic isothiocyanates (ITCs) in Brassica plants, hydrolyzed from glucosinolate (GLS) precursors.
Suman Chakraborty, Stefan Schuster
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Whitefly hijacks a plant detoxification gene that neutralizes plant toxins [PDF]
Cell, 2021 Jixing Xia +13 more
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The Interactions of Human Neutrophils with Shiga Toxins and Related Plant Toxins: Danger or Safety?
Toxins, 2012 Shiga toxins and ricin are well characterized similar toxins belonging to quite different biological kingdoms. Plant and bacteria have evolved the ability to produce these powerful toxins in parallel, while humans have evolved a defense system that ...
Maurizio Brigotti
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