CHIMIA (May 2020)

Plant Toxins: Poison or Therapeutic?

  • Catherine E. Housecroft

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2020.421
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 74, no. 5

Abstract

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Many plants that are classed as poisonous also have therapeutic uses, and this is illustrated using members of the Drimia and Digitalis genera which are sources of cardiac glycosides.

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