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According to the paper, “CPA (cyclopiazonic acid) is 1 of the large mycotoxins associated with the kodo millet seeds causing kodo poisoning, which was archetypal recognised during the mid-eighties.”
According to the toxicology study of the 10 elephants that died astatine Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, they had consumed a “large quantity” of kodo millet plants that were infected with a fungus.
The toxicological introspection study from the Centre for Wildlife Conservation, Management and Disease Surveillance, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, besides rejected suspicions that the elephants whitethorn person been poisoned intentionally. This was aft the samples tested antagonistic for respective different toxic substances.
The laboratory had analysed samples of the liver, kidney, spleen, heart, lungs, stomach, and intestinal contents of the elephants.
“Presence cyclopiazonic acerb was detected successful each pooled samples. Approximate attraction of cyclopiazonic acerb detected successful the illustration was supra 100 ppb. Further screening of each the samples is being made to estimation the nonstop concentration… The results bespeak that the elephants mightiness person consumed ample quantities of kodo plant/grains,” the study read.
The study advised a “survey and demolition of the fungal infected kodo harvest residue arsenic good arsenic avoiding the introduction of home and chaotic animals into specified fields”.
It besides called for raising “awareness among farmers and livestock owners successful and astir BTR” regarding the fungal corruption of the crop. “Detailed survey should beryllium conducted connected cropping and ambience successful and astir BTR, etc,” the study said.
According to a 2023 probe insubstantial titled ‘Potential Risk of Cyclopiazonic Acid Toxicity successful Kodua Poisoning’, published successful the Journal of Scientific and Technical Research, the kodo millet is chiefly cultivated successful adust and semi-arid regions. But sometimes, “environmental conditions similar outpouring and summertime onslaught arsenic being suitable for a definite benignant of poisoning, which leads to greater economical harvest loss”.
According to the paper, “CPA (cyclopiazonic acid) is 1 of the large mycotoxins associated with the kodo millet seeds causing kodo poisoning, which was archetypal recognised during the mid-eighties.”
“Millets are much prone to fungal infection, followed by bacterial and viral; these infections adversely impact the atom and fodder yield. Ergot is simply a parasitic fungal endophyte that grows successful the receptor heads of assorted leaf grass, astir often connected kodo millet. Consumption of specified kodo grains is often recovered to origin poisoning,” the insubstantial said.
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