Poisonous Plants and Related Toxins

Poisonous Plants and Related Toxins

Edited by T Acamovic, Scottish Agricultural College (SAC), UK; C S Stewart, Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen; T W Pennycott, SAC, Ayr, UK

Pub Date: November 2003
Hardback
608 pages

Readership
Researchers in botany, plant chemistry, animal and veterinary sciences and human toxicology

Main Description
This book presents refereed and edited papers from the 6th International Symposium on Poisonous Plants, held in Scotland in August 2001. It covers a range of topics from plant biochemistry to toxic effects in animals (particularly grazing farmed animals) and humans. The contents include the evolution of antinutrients and toxins in plants, biomedical applications of toxins in plants, isolation, identification and effects of plant and fungal toxins and the effect of plant toxins on aversion to plants in animal diets.

Reviews
• "This book is a 'must' for everyone who works in the field of animal nutrition or medicinal chemistry, but even those toxinologists who are not working in these fields directly will have their profit as there is much material explaining pharmacological and toxicological effects."
G Habermehl, Toxicon, 43(2004)

Main Contents
• Evolution of Toxins and Anti-nutritional Factors in Plants with Special Emphasis on Leguminosae
• Lack of Apparent Base Sequence Preference of Activated Pyrrolizidine Alkaloid Cross-links with DNA
• Correlation of an Endophytic Fungus (Alternaria spp.) with the Presence of Swainsonine in Lambert Locoweed (Oxytropis lambertii)
• Delphinium Alkaloid Toxicosis in Cattle from Switzerland
• Toxicity of a Pyrrolizidine Alkaloid, Riddelliine, in Neonatal Pigs
• Bacteria and Corynetoxin-like Toxins in Nematode Seed-galls in Festuca nigrescens from North America and New Zealand
• Preliminary in vitro Studies of Cistus salvifolius Leaves in Relation to Metabolic Disorders in Sheep
• Fusarochromanone and Wortmannin: Novel Fusarium Toxins
• Improved Methods for the Extraction and Purification of Corynetoxins for Preparative or Analytical Purposes using Water Solublizing Additives
• Nephrotic Syndrome in Cattle Caused by the Shrub Nolletia gariepina in the Kalahari Sandveld of Southern Africa
• The Concentration of Steroidal Sapogenins in and the Degree of Fungal Infection on Narthecium ossifragum Plants in More and Romsdal County, Norway
• Calcinosis in Ruminants due to Plant Poisoning: Contributions on the Pathogenesis
• Evaluation of Ipomoea carnea Toxicity to Growing Goats: Clinical, Biochemical, Haematological and Pathological Alterations
• Chemical and Pharmacological Investigation of Macrocyclic Diterpenoids Isolated from Euphorbia Species
• Disposition of Swainsonine in Sheep Following Acute Oral Exposure
• Stimulating Effect of Aflatoxin B1 on Lipid Peroxidation in the in vitro Model Systems
• An Indirect Competitive ELISA for Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids of Heliotropium europaeum
• Victor King Chesnut (1867-1938), A Poisonous Plant Pioneer
• Phomopsin Intoxication of the Rat Causes Prodigious Loss of Body Weight and Liver Weight
• The Role of Condensed Tannins on the Rumen Degradation of Lotus pedunculatus
• Cyclopiazonic Acid: Food Chain Contaminant?
• Calystegines Isolated from Ipomoea spp. Possibly Associated with an Ataxia Syndrome in Cattle in North Western Australia
• Spectrofluorometric Analysis of Phylloerythrin in Plasma and Skin from Sheep Suffering from Hepatogenous Photosensitization
• Plants Toxic for Domestic Animals in the State of Paraνba, Northeastern Brazil
• Occurrence of Cyanogenic Glycosides in Seeds and Seedlings of Idiospermum australiense, a Primitive Rainforest Angiosperm from Tropical Australia
• Photosensitization in Cattle in Southern Brazil
• Transformed Root Cultures of Solanum dulcamara and Production of Secondary Metabolites
• Antibacterial Properties of Phytochemicals in Aromatic Plants in Poultry Diets
• Microbial Metabolism of Tannins
• Modulation of Escherichia coli Shiga Toxin Activity on Vero Cells by the Use of the Secondary Plant Compound Swainsonine
• The Identification of Corynetoxin-like Tunicaminyluracil-glycolipids from Nematode Galls in Festuca nigrescens from North America and New Zealand
• The Metabolism of Saponins from Yucca schidigera in Sheep
• Ecological, Physiological and Behavioural Interactions between Marsupial Folivores and Eucalyptus Antifeedants
• PCR Amplification for Detection of Synergistes jonesii, the Ruminal Bacterium that Degrades the Toxins of Leucaena leucocephala
• Bracken Fern (genus Pteridium) Toxicity - A Global Problem
• Histochemical Studies of Bracken Fern: Localization of Phenolic and Tannin Defences in Bracken Accessions along an Altitudinal Gradient in the Neotropics
• Chronic Toxicity in Cattle due to Pteridium aquilinum (Bracken Fern) in Tarija Department, Bolivia: An Interdisciplinary Investigation
• Ptaquiloside in Bracken and in Topsoil in 20 Danish Bracken Populations
• Pathological Aspects of Cyanobacterial Toxicity
• Effect of Senna occidentalis Seed in Laying Hens: Evaluation of the Toxicity and Egg Production
• Intoxication by Crotalaria retusa in Ruminants and Equidae in the State of Paraνba, Northeastern Brazil
• Pathology of Experimental Stemodia kingii Intoxication in the Mouse
• A Procedure for the Estimation of the Daily Intake of Saponins from Pasture by Sheep
• Exposure of Native Australian Parrots to Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids
• Poisonous Sedges: The Galegine Content of Schoenus rigens at Various Growth Stages
• Lupin Non-starch Polysaccharides and their Effects on Chickens
• Lectin Histochemical Study of Lipopigments Present in the Cerebellum of Solanum fastigiatum var. fastigiatum Intoxicated Cattle
• Ipomoea carnea Induced Enhanced Macrophage Activity (Phagocytosis and Peroxide Production) in Immunocompetent Rats
• Advanced Multidimensional NMR Experiments as Tools for Structure Determination of Amaryllidaceae Alkaloids
• Characterization of Steroidal Sapogenins in Panicum virgatum L. (Switchgrass)
• Common Natural and Experimental Plant Intoxications in Animals Reported in Cuba
• Intoxication by Prosopis juliflora Pods (Mesquite Beans) in Cattle and Goats in Northeastern Brazil
• Screening Poisonous Plant Toxins for Cytotoxicity Using Bovine Embryos Produced by in vitro Fertilization Techniques
• Growth of Bracken in Denmark and the Content of Ptaquiloside in Fronds, Rhizomes and Roots
• Poisonous Plant Research: Biomedical Applications
• Essential Amino Acids and Antimetabolites in the Seed Kernel of an Unconventional Legume, Gila Bean (Entada phaseoloides Merrill)
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li> The Detection and Estimation of Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids in Plants and Feeds using an ELISA
• Monocrotaline Pyrrole Protein Targets in Pulmonary Artery Endothelial Cells
• Analysis of Corynetoxins: A Comparative Study of an Indirect Competitive ELISA and HPLC
• Pavetamine: an Inhibitor of Protein Synthesis in the Heart
• Effects of the Mycotoxins Lolitrem B and Paxilline on Gastrointestinal Smooth Muscle, Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems and Temperature in Sheep
• Conditioned Feed Aversion as a Means of Preventing Sheep from Grazing Vermeerbos (Geigeria ornativa)
• Prenatal Toxicity of Cyanide in Goats - a Model for Teratological Studies in Ruminants
• The Clinical and Morphological Changes of Intermittent Locoweed (Oxytropis sericea) Poisoning in Sheep
• Biological Control of the Toxic Shrub Juniper
• The Effect on Quail of Feed Contaminated with the Mycotoxin Aurofusarin
• Effect of Tunicamycins on GlcNAc-1-P Transferase Activity in Rat Tissues and Toxic Effects during Pregnancy and Lactation
• Experiences with the Quantitative Trace Analysis of Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids using GCMS and LCMS
• Perinatal Study of Senna occidentalis Intoxication in Rabbits
• Fetal Effects of Maternal Ingestion of Solanum malacoxylon: Evaluation in Rats
• A Survey of Venezuelan Plants Toxic to Livestock and their Potential as Anti-insect Materials
• Dietary Butylated Hydroxytoluene Protects Against Aflatoxicosis in Turkeys
• Mycotoxins in Agricultural Crops
• Intoxication by Ramaria flavo-brunnescens in Domestic Animals
• Natural Antioxidants and Mycotoxins: Theoretical Considerations and Practical Applications
• Rumex obtusifolius: Its Costs and the Benefits of Control
• Effect of Varying Trypsin Inhibitor Activity of Full Fat Soya on Nutritional Value for Broiler Chicks
• The Bioactivity-guided Isolation and Structural Identification of Two Novel Toxic Steroidal Glucosides, Stemodiosides B3 and B4 from Stemodia kingii
• The Effect of Pattern of Feeding on the Development of Food Preferences in Goats in Response to Positive and Negative Post-ingestive Consequences
• Conditioned Feed Aversion as a Means of Preventing Intake of Yellow-tulp (Homeria pallida) by Livestock
• Plant-associated Diseases, Either New or New to the State, Encountered Over the Last Decade (1991-2001) in Western Australia
• Steroidal Sapogenins and Saponins in Narthecium ossifragum from Scotland
• Transfer of Cyanide and its Main Metabolite Thiocyanate in Milk: Study of Cyanogenic Plants Ingestion during Lactation in Goats
• The Effect of Feeding Broilers Tall Fescue Grass (Festuca arundinacea) Seeds Containing the Endophyte Toxin Ergovaline on Ascites Syndrome Morbidity
• Bovine Enzootic Haematuria on Sγo Miguel Island - Azores
• Toxicophenology and Grazing Risk Models of Tall Larkspur