of severe pain in his abdomen. The bowels have not been moved since. Previous to this he had always enjoyed go'jd health. O11 admission he was found in a miserable state ; the abdomen was hard, tympanitic and painful to the touch ; he had vomiting, hiccup and an anxious countenance. The tongue was foul, and thickly coated all over with a dry white fur. There was no rupture. A soap and warm wate...

The medicinally applied tropane alkaloids hyoscyamine and scopolamine are produced in Atropa belladonna L. and in a small number of other Solanaceae. Calystegines are nortropane alkaloids that derive from a branching point in the tropane alkaloid biosynthetic pathway. In A. belladonna root cultures, calystegine molar concentration is 2-fold higher than that of hyoscyamine and scopolamine. In th...

Polyploidy is a prominent process in plant evolution and adaptation, but molecular phylogenetic studies of polyploids based on DNA sequences have often been confounded by their complex gene and genome histories. We report here a retroposon insertion in the nuclear gene granule-bound starch synthase I (GBSSI or "waxy") that clearly reveals the ancient hybrid history of the medically important po...

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