Claviceps purpurea


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Noun1.Claviceps purpurea - a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plantClaviceps purpurea - a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid
ergot
Claviceps, genus Claviceps - fungi parasitic upon the ovaries of various grasses
rye ergot - a sclerotium or hardened mass of mycelium
fungus - an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia
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Algunas de las manifestaciones clinicas, como la elevada temperatura corporal, podrian explicarse por un cuadro de ergotismo subclinico debido a la presencia de Claviceps purpurea y la elevada temperatura ambiente en esa epoca del ano (14).
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Anote on the biosynthesis of clavine alkaloids in Claviceps purpurea strain 15B.
Screening of Penicillium species and optimisation of culture conditions for the production of ergot alkaloids using surface culture fermentation process
Claviceps purpurea, Mus rattus, parthenogenesis and Lamarckism have been misspelt in the text and names too suffer (Jokichi Takamine, Georges Cuvier, even Brown-Sequard).
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En varios generos de la familia Convolvulaceae, donde Ipomoea es uno de los mas grandes, se han descubierto sintesis bioquimicas exclusivas como la produccion, y posterior acumulacion de alcaloides ergolinicos, de naturaleza similar a los producidos por el ergot del centeno (Claviceps purpurea), considerados toxicos para el ser humano.
Caracterizacion ecologica y Fitoquimica de la Batatilla Ipomoea purpurea L. Roth (Solanales, Convolvulaceae) en el municipio de Manizales
A role of [beta]-glucanases in the parasitism of cereals by Claviceps purpurea. Physiological Plant Pathology, London, v.
Rota metabolica de oligossacarideos em exsudato da "doenca acucarada" do sorgo causado por Claviceps africana
It has moderate resistance to ergot [caused by Claviceps purpurea (Fr.) Tul.].
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