The colour betrays the poison
Over 2500 plants punish their predators by producing poison when they are eaten by catalysing cyanogenic glycosides. The best known is cassava. Analysing and determining the levels of toxicity in plants is often constrained by a lack of required...
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| Language: | Inglés |
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
2000
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/46856 |
| Summary: | Over 2500 plants punish their predators by producing poison when they are eaten by catalysing cyanogenic glycosides. The best known is cassava. Analysing and determining the levels of toxicity in plants is often constrained by a lack of required... |
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