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Influence of endophyte genotype on swainsonine concentrations in Oxytropis sericea.
Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology - 1 Jan 2013
Cook Daniel, Grum Daniel S, Gardner Dale R, Welch Kevin D, Pfister James A
Abstract excerpt
Locoism is a toxic syndrome of livestock caused by the ingestion of a subset of legumes belonging to the Astragalus and Oxytropis genera known as "locoweeds". Locoweeds contain the toxic indolizidine alkaloid swainsonine, which is produced by the endophytic fungi Undifilum species. Previously we reported that swainsonine concentrations differ between populations of Oxytropis sericea. We hypothesized that the...
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