Browsing Plant Science by Author "Van Elst, Daan"

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Distribution of the cardiotoxin pavettamine in the coffee family (Rubiaceae) and its significance for gousiekte, a fatal poisoning of ruminants

Van Elst, Daan; Nuyens, Sarah; Van Wyk, Braam; Verstraete, Brecht; Dessein, Steven; Prinsen, Els (Elsevier, 2013-03)

Gousiekte, a cardiac syndrome of ruminants in southern Africa, is caused by the ingestion of plants containing the polyamine pavettamine. All the six known gousiekte-causing plants are members of the Rubiaceae or coffee ...
Endophytic bacteria in toxic South African plants : identification, phylogeny and possible involvement in gousiekte

Verstraete, Brecht; Van Elst, Daan; Steyn, Hester Maria; Van Wyk, Abraham Erasmus (Braam); Lemaire, Benny; Smets, Erik; Dessein, Steven; Webber, Mark Alexander (Public Library of Science, 2011-04)

BACKGROUND: South African plant species of the genera Fadogia, Pavetta and Vangueria (all belonging to Rubiaceae) are known to cause gousiekte (literally ‘quick disease’), a fatal cardiotoxicosis of ruminants characterised ...
Production of toxic pavettamine and pavettamine conjugates in the gousiekte-causing Fadogia homblei plant and its relation to the bacterial endosymbiont

Van Elst, Daan; Van Wyk, Braam; Schultz, Anitra; Prinsen, Els (Elsevier, 2013-01)

Plant poisoning of livestock is responsible for considerable economic losses in southern Africa. Six plant species of the Rubiaceae family are known to cause gousiekte, a cardiac syndrome of ruminants induced by ingestion ...

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