prevalence of the illness in India and described its main features. particularly muscle spasm; he found that 7 per cent of the population under review were affected. Acton (1922) studied the disease in the population of the town of Ravat (India) and found that about 6 per cent of the children showed signs of lathyrism. Vivanco and Jim#{233}nezDiaz ( 1 95 1 ) described similar findings in Spain....

PIWOWARCZYK BARBARA, PINDEL ANNA, MUSZYŃSKA EWA. 2016. Callus Induction and Rhizogenesis in Lathyrus sativus L. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 64(1): 123–128. Grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.) is a leguminous plant distinguished by great resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses that can become a valuable source of protein feed in the nearest future. Howev...

Epidemics of lathyrism, a neurological syndrome of spastic paraparesis, have occurred during severe droughts in Europe, Asia, and Africa for millenia. Causation is linked to exposure to β-N-oxalyl-L-α,β-diaminopropionic acid (β-L-ODAP), a neurotoxin in Lathyrus sativus. Lathyrism shares neurological features with konzo, a syndrome of predominantly spastic paraparesis which occurs during drought...

Species of the legume genera Lathyrus and Pisum possess chromosomes that exhibit a unique structure of their centromeric regions, which is clearly apparent during metaphase by the formation of extended primary constrictions which span up to a third of the length of the chromosome. In addition, these species express two different variants of the CenH3 protein which are co-localized in multiple d...