Sentences with phrase «alkaloids producing»

St. Anthony is also the patron saint of ergotism, a poisoning caused by the ingestion of alkaloids produced by the Claviceps purpurea fungus that infects rye and other cereals that are used to make bread.

He says the study's claim that alkaloids produced by plants can alter or damage genes is an overstatement.

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There are four broad classes of opioids: endogenous opioid peptides, produced in the body; opium alkaloids, such as morphine (the prototypical opioid) and codeine; semi-synthetic opioids such as heroin and oxycodone; and fully synthetic opioids such as pethidine and methadone that have structures unrelated to the opium alkaloids.

Breadseed poppies Papaver somniferum as well as many other poppy and barberry plants produce many Isochinoline alkaloids.

The presence of alkaloids — naturally occurring toxins produced by trees and other plants — has long been suspected in smoke from forest fires, but the new study is the first to detect the compounds coming directly from a blaze.

And: «This genus, comprising over 600 different species, not only produces the poisonous alkaloids, but also lives in symbioses with bacteria to bind nitrogen.»

The alkaloids in California Poppy produce a milder effect than opiates and are non-addictive, with no disorienting side effects.