University of Missouri livestock and forage specialists are reporting ergot infestations that can cause major losses in ...

Saskatchewan research hopes to tease out better ways for Canadian beef farmers to manage ergot consumption in their herd’s ...

Fresh guidance aims to reduce ergot risks in UK cereals, protecting grain quality and boosting long-term food safety standards.

A fungus grows on the rye head and eats away the grains. What is left is a collection of hard bodies, each shaped like a cock’s spur. Hence the name ergot, from French argot (spur).

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Ergot bodies result from Claviceps Purpurea fungus inflecting the grain. This can infect over 200 species of grasses throughout the country including wheat, barley, oats, brome grass and ...

Ergot is a fungal pathogen that infects cereal crops during the flowering period. It causes hard, dark ergots to develop in ...

Morning glories were already known to contain a class of chemicals called ergot alkaloids. These chemicals, made exclusively by fungi, are the same class that the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann used ...

Ergot alkaloids are only produced by fungi. In addition to morning glories, they are frequently observed growing on grains such as rye. They can be toxic to people and cattle and, ...

(via SciShow) If you've ever heard of ergot fungi, you've likely heard of the nasty side effects of eating them, including convulsions and hallucinations.But like many a toxic substance, scientists ...

Ergot alkaloids are a group of headache medicines that include dihydroergotamine (Migranal, Trudhesa, others) and ergotamine (Cafergot, Ergomar, Ergostat, others). These drugs are used only to ...