Fungal toxins in hemp and cannabis The 2018 U.S. Farm Bill defined hemp as any part of the plant Cannabis sativa with levels of THC at or below 0.3%. THC is the primary component of Cannabis ...

The laboratory-based study shows that tiny, shrimp-like freshwater crustaceans called Daphnia can gain protection from fungal parasites by consuming toxins produced by bloom-forming cyanobacteria.

Since animal and plant toxins are often inspirations for new drugs, losing the toads through habitat destruction and fungal infections means we lose their poison diversity as well as their ...

But the toxins produced in cyanobacteria blooms may also have protective effects on sand-grain-sized lake animals that ingest them, much as the toxins in milkweed plants protect monarch ...

Fungal infections on marijuana can produce dangerous toxins, according to a new study. Other common, and federally legal, crops have been bred to resist fungi. Scientists still have more questions ...

Aspergillus molds make some 16 million tons of corn unsafe for consumption each year. It’s not the fungus itself that’s the problem, however; it’s the fungal metabolites, called aflatoxins, which can ...

Wheat – the most widely cultivated crop in the world – is under growing attack from harmful toxins. Across Europe, almost half of wheat crops are impacted by the fungal infection that gives ...

Alloxan toxin causes diabetes. ... hot weather promotes fungal growth. ... In 2008, scientists closely examined how alloxan caused diabetes in animals.

The same deadly fungus is now being looked at as a potential cancer treatment. The therapy detailed in this new study is a ...