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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Poisonous plants"”.
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Terror en el Orinoco: Formas del espanto animal y vegetal en la historia natural de José Gumilla
… Gumilla”, analyzes the repertoire of terrifying plants and animals that the Spanish Jesuit missionary José Gumilla described in his 1745 compendium <em>El Orinoco Ilustrado y Defendido </em>—a work that, surprisingly, has not been read from the perspective of animal and plant studies. Based on …
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A Chemical and Morphological Study of Grindelia Squarrosa (Pursh) Dunal
… to its resinous nature. Pammel in his Manual of Poisonous Plants states that animals do not like it, so that cases of animal poisoning by Grindelia are quite rare. Because of the common occurrence of this drug plant in South Dakota, it was deemed advisable to make a study of same from various …
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Biological effects of the ingestion of the toxic plant, Cycas circinalis
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Foods and Nutrition, 1964
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Comparison of techniques for estimating pasture herbage mass and productive ground cover for Lakota prairie grass, Kentucky 31 endophyte free tall fescue, Kentucky 31 endophyte infected tall fescue and Quantum 542 tall fescue grazed by stocker steers
… weeds present and to monitor for the presence of poisonous plants or noxious weeds. An experiment was conducted in 2003 through 2005 to investigate botanical composition and yield of "Lakota" prairie grass (Bromus catharticus Vahl.), "Kentucky 31" endophyte-infected (KY31 E+), endophyte-free (KY31 …
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Isolation of a Toxic Substance from CENTAUREA REPENS
<p>A poisonous steroid-type compound was isolated from Centaurea repens. After extraction with absolute ethanol, removal of the solvent, addition of 2% HCl to precipitate the pigments, and filtering, the pH was adjusted to 9 with aqueous anunonia. This solution was exhaustively extracted with …
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Isolation and Partial Characterization of the Toxic Substance from EREMOCARPUS SETIGERUS BENTH
<p>The work on the active substance of Eremocarpus setigerus Benth has been previously performed by Naito and Noller. However, the investigation was not complete. Therefore we isolated and tested this substance by steam distillation and thin layer chromatography technique. A yellow sticky toxic …
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Examining the Experiences of Smallholder farmers in Malawi towards Farm Input Subsidies
… a good catch of fish. Sometimes, we could put poisonous plants into the river to contaminate its waters. That could poison fish and make them grasp in need of fresh air, and in that way, we could easily catch them. It is in this river where we also learned how to swim and play water sports …