Sentences with phrase «of ergot»

She reminded me of a nineteenth century Nancy Drew - the list of things she knows and can do could fill the endpapers of the book (not just industrial chemistry and the wiring of circuits and the pathology of ergot, but also horticulture, sewing and cooking).

The rye crop consumed in the winter of 1691 - 1692 — when the first unusual symptoms began to be reported — could easily have been contaminated by large quantities of ergot.

When Albert Hoffmann began exploring the chemical properties of the ergot spore, he stumbled upon a potent psychedelic

In the Middle Ages, those who consumed large amounts of ergot - infested rye flour were afflicted with St. Anthony's Fire, a condition characterized by advanced gangrene.

Not exact matches

Some grasses have natural defense mechanisms, and ergot may be one of them, helping to repel herbivores.

Apparently both ergot and the grasses that now form most of the diet for the human race evolved together.

«It seems like ergot has been involved with animals and humans almost forever, and now we know that this fungus literally dates back to the earliest evolution of grasses,» said George Poinar, Jr., an internationally recognized expert on the life forms found in amber and a faculty member in the OSU College of Science.

In the Middle Ages it sometimes killed thousands of people during epidemics when ergot - infected rye bread was more common.

A perfectly preserved amber fossil from Myanmar has been found that provides evidence of the earliest grass specimen ever discovered — about 100 million years old — and even then it was topped by a fungus similar to ergot, which for eons has been intertwined with animals and humans.