Ergot is a parasitic fungus that contaminates feed in animal farming. Its toxicity causes vasoconstriction, resulting in ...

Ergot is an airborne fungus that affects seed heads of cereal grains such as rye, barley, oat and wheat. It is most prevalent in wet, humid years. Ergot is showing up so often that agronomists are ...

Carlo Van Herk, field operations lead at the Farming Smarter Association in Lethbridge, supervised research on the best time ...

a step that could end disruptions in the purchases of world’s biggest wheat buyer by replacing quarantine officials who rejected several shipments this year for containing the ergot fungus.

ERGOT has been under active scientific investigation for two generations, and has provided sociological problems for ten centuries; its secrets are now almost all laid bare, and at the moment when ...

Pair this dark grain with other superfoods for a healthful meal. Although very rare, wild rice can be a host to ergot toxin, which can be spotted in grains that have a pink or purplish spots.

A 30-year partnership with a local grain store and feed mill has proved ... See also: 3… The fungal pathogen ergot is reported to be widespread across UK cereals this harvest, with some growers ...

Funded by a BBSRC BBR programme I am responsible for bringing UK wheat genomics data together under the MONOGRAM ubrella. I am curently collaborating with Donal O'Sullivan at NIAB on the discovery of ...