Sentences with phrase «detect plant toxins»

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She told members of the Cayuga County Water Quality Management Agency Thursday morning that the health department has been sampling the treatment plants» water once per week and so far no toxins have been detected.

As ancient pandas switched to a plant - based diet, their bitter taste perception got better, according to a new study, helping them detect the dangerous toxins in bamboo.

Similarly, scientists have long assumed that bitter taste evolved as a defense mechanism to detect potentially harmful toxins commonly found in plants.

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.