Poisonous Plants and Related Toxins; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Dedications; Chapter 1 Evolution of Toxins and Anti-nutritional Factors in Plants with Special Emphasis on Leguminosae; Chapter 2 Lack of Apparent Base Sequence Preference of Activated Pyrrolizidine Alkoloid Cross-links with DNA; Chapter 3 Correlation of an Endophytic Fungus (Alternaria spp.) with the Presence of Swainsonine in Lambert Locoweed (Oxytropis lambertii); Chapter 4 Delphinium Alkaloid Toxicosis in Cattle from Switzerland; Chapter 5 Toxicity of a Pyrrolizidine Alkaloid, Riddlelliine, in Neonatal Pigs
Summary
This book present edited papers from the 6th International Symposium on Poisonous Plants, held in Scotland in August 2001. It covers a range of topics from plan biochemistry to toxic effects in animals (particularly grazing farm animals) and humans
