Ergotism, or ergot poisoning, is when a person or animal eats food that has been contaminated with a fungus called C. purpurea. The fungus is most commonly found in rye, but it can affect other ...

31 July 2001 Lo-till has caused grass weed and ergot problems I have been using min cultivations for 20 years on heavy land. I have now got to the point ...

Ergot poisoning happens when a person or animal consumes Claviceps purpurea and its byproducts. This fungus grows on grains such as rye and wheat, producing toxic alkaloids.

And ergot-infected grain can be cleaned by grain elevators or farmers with the proper equipment, Peterson says. Ergot occurs in hundreds of grass species, including wheat.

Reason for posting: Dihydroergotamine and ergotamine are ergot alkaloids commonly used to treat migraines. 1 Many clinicians may be unaware of recently recognized interactions of these ergot ...

Ergot, the black mass of a particular fungus on cereal grains, especially rye, was the cause of frightful epidemics in Europe more than a thousand years ago, and the ingested contaminated grain has ...

Ergot is a naturally occurring fungus spread by spores in the spring. If conditions then are cool and wet, as they were in parts of Scotland this year, and this coincides with the point when cereal ...

Another noteworthy development is the simultaneous determination of multiple alkaloid classes—including ergot, tropane, and pyrrolizidine alkaloids—through refined LC-MS/MS protocols, which ...