Farmers and ranchers in southwest Missouri are being urged to monitor livestock after ergot, a fungus that can be deadly for cattle, was spotted in several hayfields and pastures. Ergot is an ...

ERGOT has been under active scientific investigation for two generations, and has provided sociological problems for ten centuries; its secrets are now almost all laid bare, and at the moment when ...

a step that could end disruptions in the purchases of world’s biggest wheat buyer by replacing quarantine officials who rejected several shipments this year for containing the ergot fungus.

China says suspension due to phytosanitary issues, as measures coincide with retaliation against US tariffs. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Prior to that discovery in 1909, another fungal metabolite called Ergothioneine (ERGO), a naturally occurring amino acid that contains a sulfur atom on the imidazole ring, was discovered in Ergot ...