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...

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
Format: News Item
Language:Inglés
Published: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation 2000
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/46856
Description
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...