#Illegal marijuana grows threaten fishers in the southern Sierra Nevadarat poison used on illegal marijuana grows is killing fishers in the southern Sierra nevada according to a recent study conducted by a team of scientists from the U s. Forest Service's Pacific
The authors speculated that the most likely source of the poisons was the illegal marijuana grows found throughout the Sierra nevada.
The researchers deduced that illegal marijuana grows are a likely source of the poison because the fishers in this study were radio-tracked and many were observed not venturing into rural urban
and variety of poisons found at the illegal marijuana plots is a new threat. According to co-author PSW wildlife biologist Dr. Kathryn Purcell exposure of wildlife to pesticides has been documented widely
either directly consuming flavored rodenticides or by consuming prey that had ingested recently the poisons exposure may also predispose animals to dying from other causes.
Exposure to lower doses--or to combinations--of the poisons results in slower reflexes reduced ability to heal from injuries and neurological impairment.
In this study scientists reported on the amount of poisons found at over 300 illegal plots
which may also be exposed to the poisons say the scientists. The full report can be found at http://treesearch. fs. fed. us/pubs/43761headquartered in Albany Calif. the Pacific Southwest Research Station develops
when one plant restricts the growth of another by releasing toxins. They set out to determine
The chemical-specific changes in the soil microbial community generated a negative feedback on crop growth the scientists said noting that the chemicals also would have a direct toxic effect on other plants.
I.).Yield losses the use of insecticides and corn hybrids engineered to express rootworm-killing toxins in their tissues cost U s. growers at least $1 billion a year.
Lambert said that another theory is that excess fat in the diet interferes with the body's ability to keep a bacterial component called endotoxin from entering the bloodstream through gaps between cells in the digestive system--gut barrier function
Refuges consist of standard non-Bt plants that pests can eat without ingesting Bt toxins. Computer models showed that refuges should be especially good for delaying resistance
In addition to mechanical defenses such as thorns and spines plants also produce compounds that keep insects and other herbivores at bay by acting as repellents or toxins.
now a University of Florida entomologist wants to improve the netting by coating it with insecticide toxic only to mosquitoes.
Though they were less toxic to mosquitoes than commercial products the experimental compounds were far more selective indicating researchers are on the right track he said.
The compounds we're using are not very toxic to honeybees fish and mammals but we need to refine them further make them more toxic to mosquitoes
and safer for nontarget organisms he said. Funding for the project came from a five-year $3. 6 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases part of the National institutes of health.
because the size and placement of its lamps suggest that it is using light to mimic toxic luminescent click beetles.
and we believe they are less toxic for patients result in less biohazardous waste for the environment
So far researchers have observed no toxicity in the patients who orally took the anti-inflammatory agent curcumin encapsulated in grapefruit nanoparticles.
On the flip side outcomes were not favorable for our ancestors who ate poisonous mushrooms for example he said.
These measures have been taken in response to evidence that neonicotinoids are toxic to honeybees and are contributing to the decline of bee colonies.
Problems seen with constant exposurean Eawag study published today in the journal PLOS ONE (Public library of Science) now shows that at least one of the insecticides in this class also has toxic effects on freshwater invertebrates.
Failure of conventional toxicity testingthe slow starvation effect observed under constant exposure to low levels of neonicotinoids is detected not by conventional toxicity tests as they are carried not out over a period of several weeks.
#Poultry drug increases levels of toxic arsenic in chicken meatchickens likely raised with arsenic-based drugs result in chicken meat that has higher levels of inorganic arsenic a known carcinogen according to a new study
Similar to the many studies that indicate tobacco use might reduce risk of Parkinson's our findings also suggest a protective effect from nicotine or perhaps a similar but less toxic chemical in peppers and tobacco.
This toxic mix of circumstances affecting a tiny fly threatens to shoot down the Rambo root bringing the misery of food insecurity to vast swathes of Africa.
Other precautions include treating irrigation water with chemicals toxic to fish and amphibians and setting poisoned bait for rodents.
The California Leafy Green Hander agreement is transparent flexible and science based said Gennet. Going above and beyond it just creates costs for farmers
He argues that we should not allow farmers spray a toxic soup of chemicals onto their crops.
If neonicotinoids are the least toxic then we should go with them. He says governments have underfunded this research area partly
Arsenic is classified as a poison by the National institutes of health and is considered a carcinogen by the National Toxicology Program.
Sacerdote-Velat and King's research has found that emodin is toxic to amphibian embryos disrupting their development preventing hatching.
Whilst this study specifically found emodin to detrimentally impact development of two species of frogs Western chorus frogs and African clawed frog (a common test species for environmental toxicity studies) Sacerdote-Velat and King
and pollen and are exposed potentially to thousands of different types of phytochemicals yet they only have one-third to one-half the inventory of enzymes that break down these toxins compared to other species Berenbaum said.
and with that food so are potential toxins Berenbaum said. Her team showed that p-coumaric acid turns on not only P450 genes but representatives of every other type of detoxification gene in the genome.
and fuel demandsnew discoveries of the way plants transport important substances across their biological membranes to resist toxic metals
and resist toxic substances like salt and aluminum said Julian Schroeder a professor of biology at UC San diego who brought together 11 other scientists from Australia Japan Mexico Taiwan the U s
When soils are acidic aluminum ions are freed in the soil resulting in toxicity to the plant the scientists write.
From their recent findings the plant biologists now understand how transport proteins control processes that allow roots to tolerate toxic aluminum.
The advantages of silicon include the long-term stability sufficiency low cost and non-toxicity of the element as well as the advanced production technology.
To evaluate the protective effects of berries on brain function specifically the ability of the brain to clear toxic accumulation researchers from the Human Nutrition Research center on Aging at Tufts University
which the brain clears toxic accumulations. Most diseases of the brain such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's have shown an increased amount of toxic protein Berries seem to promote autophagy the brain's natural housekeeping mechanism thereby reducing the toxic accumulation said Poulose.
The researchers are currently conducting a human study in older people ages 60-75. We have a lot of animal work that suggests these compounds will protect the aged brain and reverse some of behavioral deficits.
In a new study at UC San francisco researchers measuring chemicals in the blood and urine concluded that hookah smoke contains a different--but still harmful--mix of toxins.
Toxins Unique to Hookah Smoking The UCSF study included eight men and five women all of whom had previous experience smoking cigarettes
The differences in the slew of toxins that ended up in the bodies of volunteers were due largely to the fact that the smokers were smoking two different materials according to Benowitz.
In addition to delivering toxic substances from the charcoal and tobacco the heat causes chemical reactions in the mixture which produce toxic volatile organic compounds (VOCS) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHS).
Some PAHS are highly carcinogenic and can cause lung cancer. Intake of nicotine the addictive component of tobacco was less with water pipe use.
In general exposures for various known toxins differed for the two modes of smoking the researchers found.
and excrete toxic substances so for a better comparison the researchers had the same person smoke cigarettes and a water pipe on different days.
Dooley started off to examine the toxic effects of hydrogen sulfide on plants but mistakenly used only one-tenth the amount of the toxin he had intended.
The results were so unbelievable that he repeated the experiment. Still unconvinced he repeated it again--and again and again.
For example when gypsy moth caterpillars consume foliage high in certain toxic compounds transmission of viruses between the caterpillars is reduced facilitating moth outbreaks.
and children are especially vulnerable to the effects of lead poisoning Tongesayi said. For infants and children the daily exposure levels from eating the rice products analyzed in this study would be 30-60 times higher than the FDA's provisional total tolerable intake (PTTI) levels.
Using in vitro studies they are completing key research to better understand how nanogumbos can be tuned to be selectively toxic to cancer cells and nontoxic to normal cells.
We have a material that is normally toxic to both cancer cells and normal cells Warner explained.
and the accompanying dehydration direct toxic effects of the body's breakdown of alcohol into acetaldehyde and toxic effects of substances called congeners that are present in darkly colored liquor like scotch and bourbon.
Their study which includes molecular evidence that sorghum lacks the proteins toxic to people with celiac disease appears in ACS'Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
whether sorghum contains those toxic gluten proteins. They describe evidence from an analysis of the recently published sorghum genome the complete set of genes in the plant
Published in the journal Environmental Pollution the Pitt study finds that bumblebees are at risk of ingesting toxic amounts of metals like aluminum
Therefore the insects are exposed to toxins before they even sense the presence of metals. Although many metals are required by living organisms in small amounts they can be toxic to both plants
and animals when found in moderate to high concentrations said Tia-Lynn Ashman principal investigator of the study and professor and associate chair in Pitt's Department of Biological sciences in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of arts and Sciences.
#Multi-toxin biotech crops not silver bullets, scientists warnthe popular new strategy of planting genetically engineered crops that make two
or more toxins to fend off insect pests rests on assumptions that don't always apply UA researchers have discovered.
A strategy widely used to prevent pests from quickly adapting to crop-protecting toxins may fail in some cases
Compared with typical insecticide sprays the Bt toxins produced by genetically engineered crops are much safer for people
Bt crops were grown first widely in 1996 and several pests have already become resistant to plants that produce a single Bt toxin.
each plant produces two or more toxins that kill the same pest. As reported in the study the pyramid strategy has been adopted extensively with two-toxin Bt cotton completely replacing one-toxin Bt cotton
since 2011 in the U s. Most scientists agree that two-toxin plants will be more durable than one-toxin plants.
The extent of the advantage of the pyramid strategy however rests on assumptions that are met not always the study reports.
Redundant killing can be achieved by plants producing two toxins that act in different ways to kill the same pest he said so
if an individual pest has resistance to one toxin the other toxin will kill it.
For their experiments the group collected cotton bollworm--also known as corn earworm or Helicoverpa zea-a species of moth that is a major agricultural pest and selected it for resistance against one of the Bt toxins Cry1ac.
As expected the resistant caterpillars survived after munching on cotton plants producing only that toxin. The surprise came
If the assumption of redundant killing is correct caterpillars resistant to the first toxin should survive on one-toxin plants
but not on two-toxin plants because the second toxin should kill them Carriã re explained.
But on the two-toxin plants the caterpillars selected for resistance to one toxin survived significantly better than caterpillars from a susceptible strain.
These findings show that the crucial assumption of redundant killing does not apply in this case
and may also explain the reports indicating some field populations of cotton bollworm rapidly evolved resistance to both toxins.
and Cry2 toxins occurred in 19 of 21 experiments. Contradicting the concept of redundant killing cross-resistance means that selection with one toxin increases resistance to the other toxin.
According to the study's authors even low levels of cross-resistance can reduce redundant killing
and some other pests that are not highly susceptible to Bt toxins to begin with. The team found violations of other assumptions required for optimal success of the pyramid strategy.
In particular inheritance of resistance to plants producing only Bt toxin Cry1ac was dominant which is expected to reduce the ability of refuges to delay resistance.
Refuges consist of standard plants that do not make Bt toxins and thus allow survival of susceptible pests Under ideal conditions inheritance of resistance is not dominant
According to Tabashnik overly optimistic assumptions have led the EPA to greatly reduce requirements for planting refuges to slow evolution of pest resistance to two-toxin Bt crops.
#Cancer biologists find DNA-damaging toxins in common plant-based foodsin a laboratory study pairing food chemistry
Together the researchers expressed concerns about the use of pesticides that target the same area of the brain of insects and the potential risk of toxicity to non-target insects.
#In triplicate, genes make maize tolerant to toxic soilrendering some of the world's toxic soils far less unfriendly the U s. Department of agriculture Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
In this effort when plant scientists searched the maize genome for clues as to why some plants can tolerate toxic aluminum in soil they found three copies of the same gene known to affect aluminum tolerance according to new USDA/Cornell-led research.
Aluminum toxicity comes close to rivaling drought as a food security threat in critical tropical food-producing regions.
Acidic soils dissolve aluminum from clays in the soil making it toxic to plant roots in half the world's arable lands.
#Toxicity map of brain may help protect cognition for cancer patientsnew research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical center is giving radiation oncologists who treat brain tumors a better understanding of how to preserve the brain's functions while still killing cancer.
Radiation treatment of organs with cancer is designed to give enough of a dose to be toxic to the cancer tumor with minimal impact to the surrounding tissue
However the same isn't true for brain tissue so the researchers worked to develop a toxicity map of the brain to preserve function.
The issue is the toxicity to the brain and its function which is cognition or how you think
The toxicity map was created by taking advantage of data from larger clinical trials held at Wake Forest Baptist.
Participants completed cognitive testing upon enrollment and their scores provided the performance data for the toxicity map.
and be able to predict the threshold that we need to maintain to prevent treatment toxicities in function Peiffer said.
Despite those engaging in the relighting practice smoking fewer cigarettes there is no estimated reduction in their exposure to toxins says Steinberg.
#Masked mold toxins in food should be included in safety regulationsgovernment limits on mold toxins present naturally in grain crops should be expanded to include so-called masked mycotoxins that change from harmless to potentially harmful forms in the body a new
and other plants produce toxic substances termed mycotoxins. Some health experts regard mycotoxins as the most serious chronic dietary risk factor greater than the potential health threats from pesticides and insecticides.
Government regulations thus limit levels of mycotoxins that are permissible in food and animal feed.
Plants protect themselves by binding or conjugating glucose sulfur or other substances to the mycotoxin producing conjugated mycotoxins that are not harmful.
Dall'Asta explains that these masked mycotoxins are included not in current safety regulations because of uncertainty about
what happens when people and animals eat them. The new study focused on two of the most widespread mycotoxin contaminants of grain crops--deoxynivalenol (DON) and zearalenone (ZEN.
The authors say their results show for the first time that bacteria present in the large intestine in people deconjugate
and ZEN releasing the original toxic forms. For this reason masked mycotoxins should be considered when evaluating population exposure the study concludes.
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Haris and his team have demonstrated already that exposure to the more toxic inorganic arsenic species is greater in people who eat more rice.
but relatively uncommon to take in too much zinc to reach toxic levels. His lab is continuing to study the NF-Î B pathway inflammation and zinc deficiency in other disease processes.
#Benefits of Bt corn go beyond rootworm resistanceengineered to produce the bacterial toxin Bt Bt corn resists attack by corn rootworm a pest that feeds on roots
or serve as a poison to herbivores. These chemicals are effective in deterring the feeding of most general insect herbivores.
A well-studied practice by some specialist insects is their predilection to consume these plant poisons sequester those poisons into parts of their body then exploit the poisons for their own protection.
The results contribute to the controversial debate on plant toxicity of nanoparticles and whether engineered nanoparticles can enter into the food chain.
At the same time their high reactivity has raised concerns about their fate transport and toxicity in the environment.
Present threats to the birds include lead poisoning of chicks on Midway from lead paint used in previous decades;
#Vultures foraging far and wide face a poisonous futurea first ever study of the range and habits of white-backed vultures across southern Africa shows that they often shun national parks preferring to forage further afield on private farmland.
This behaviour and their tendency to scavenge in groups means that vultures risk encountering dead cattle that have been administered veterinary drugs that are poisonous to them
or even poisoned carcasses intended to control other carnivores such as jackals. The research using Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite transmitters to track the movements of adolescent vultures is published in the journal PLOS ONE.
But earlier work by Barbehenn and his students showed that the toxicity of maple leaves may prevent this strategy from working.
which poison the fishers must also be considered when evaluating the population. We hope that we can continue to monitor the fisher
These toxic compounds are increased with reuse of oil and increased length of frying time. Foods cooked with high heat also contain high levels of advanced glycation endproducts or AGES
#Magnetic levitation tissues could speed toxicity testsin a development that could lead to faster and more effective toxicity tests for airborne chemicals scientists from Rice university and the Rice spinoff company Nano3d Biosciences have used magnetic levitation to grow some of the most realistic lung tissue ever produced in a laboratory.
The research is part of an international trend in biomedical engineering to create laboratory techniques for growing tissues that are virtually identical to those found in people's bodies.
Souza said bronchiole tissue could solve another problem that's frequently encountered in testing the toxicity of airborne agents.
which is what you'd prefer for toxicity testing he said. With our technology we can easily levitate the bronchiole tissue to the air-liquid interface
so that airborne toxins are exposed to the epithelial layer of the tissue just as it would occur in the lungs.
and can be filled with toxins--a natural defence mechanism in most trees and plants--so the monkeys are forced actually to spend more time seeking out the right foliage to eat such as new shoots
which are generally less toxic. The traditional view was that the leaves exploited by howler monkeys were an abundant food source
They even release toxins to make it less likely native plants will germinate near them. Why then are recent popular science articles recommending a recalibration of the traditional no-tolerance attitude toward nonnative species suggesting that we've been unfair to invasives
since the 1940s and those still in use are highly toxic sometimes causing painful side effects and even death.
Although insecticides often show only short half-lives in the environment these highly toxic substances potentially enter water resources where they can be harmful to aquatic insects and other invertebrates.
It has developed resistance to against more than 50 insecticides including DDT Bt toxins among others making the use of chemicals as a control measurement become ineffective.
That's important because it lessens the symptoms from radiation toxicity like tiredness and nausea.
because it was less toxic. Smaller radiation margins around the tumor do not seem to lead to an increase in the tumor returning just outside of the radiation field Chan said.
U s.,Russian researchers collaborate on solution to toxic groundwater woesgraphene oxide has a remarkable ability to quickly remove radioactive material from contaminated water researchers at Rice university
Graphene oxide's large surface area defines its capacity to adsorb toxins Kalmykov said. So the high retention properties are not surprising to us he said.
Graphene oxide introduced to simulated wastes coagulated within minutes quickly clumping the worst toxins Kalmykov said.
Their lab research indicated that L. rhamnosus had a great affinity for binding toxic heavy metals Working with this knowledge the team hypothesized that regularly consuming this probiotic strain could prevent metals from being absorbed from the diet.
and toxic metals including mercury. The team utilized this network to produce and distribute a new type of yogurt containing L. rhamnosus.
The researchers measured the baseline and post-yogurt levels of toxic metals. The team found a significant protective effect of the probiotic against mercury and arsenic in the pregnant women.
and lower toxin levels the sample size and duration of treatment did not allow statistical significance.
or similarity to spiders that are known to be toxic to humans. In 2006 after witnessing multiple episodes where harmless spiders were mistaken for toxic ones Richard Vetter an arachnologist at the University of California Riverside asked other arachnologists
and international fruit importers to provide data on specimens they found in international cargo that had been submitted to them for identification.
and anxiety when media stories about toxic banana spiders are unleashed onto an unsuspecting and easily frightened North american general public.
and bacteria that damage the plant itself or bacteria like the Shiga-toxin producing E coli O104:
Grasses and crops such as maize attach sugars to chemical defenses called benzoxazinoids to protect themselves from being poisoned by their own protective agents.
Then when an insect starts feeding a plant enzyme removes the sugar to deploy the active toxin.
When the researchers examined the frass of these pests â pests that cause enormous crop damage â they found the toxin with sugar still attached.
In contrast to the original plant compound the new substance can no longer be cleaved by the plant enzyme to generate the toxin.
which explains the success of Spodoptera species. Plants usually defend themselves against insect feeding by producing toxins or deterrents.
and can feed on plant tissues containing toxins or deterrents without the expected negative effects. Insects overcome plant defenses by the rapid excretion sequestration
or detoxification of toxic substances Not only have contributed such adaptations to the vast diversification of insects in the course of evolution they also support the success of agricultural pests specialized on certain crop plants that jeopardize crop yields every year.
Caterpillars of the fall armyworm and two other Spodoptera species deploy a gut enzyme that catalyzes the attachment of a sugar to the toxic free DIMBOA.
and the toxic DIMBOA cannot be formed any more. The elegance of such a mechanism comes from its simplicity yet it saves the insects from being poisoned said Felipe Wouters who performed the experiments for his doctoral thesis at the institute summarizing the results.
Like his colleague Daniel Giddings Vassã£o Felipe Wouters is from Brazil where fall armyworm caused major losses of the maize yield before Bt maize was introduced.
DIMBOA is only one member of the vast variety of toxic benzoxazinoids found in grasses.
Is the methane contamination observed in drinking water a precursor to other toxins--arsenic various salts radioactive radium
the only options for control of the pest farmers have had are highly toxic chemicals many of them severely restricted.
#Pesticides more toxic for soil organisms in dry soil, at enhanced temperaturessoil organisms react more sensitive to marketable pesticides
Singularly and combined these factors lower the toxicity threshold of fungicides for springtails. The study by scientists from the LOEWE Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (Bik-F) the Goethe University and the ECT Oekotoxikologie Gmbh was published in the September issue of the journal Applied Soil Ecology.
which the fungicide pyrimethanil may be toxic. explains Cornelia Bandow. In the framework of this study the toxic threshold refers to the concentration of the fungicide at
which the population is 50%less than in an uncontaminated soil. Thus at 26 degrees and a soil moisture of 30%the threshold was up to half of the threshold that was measured at 20 degrees and 50%soil moisture.
A risk for springtails under field conditions may not be expected as the toxic threshold of pyrimethanil is far above the maximum concentrations that may occur in soil
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