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Ergotism.
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So also known as ergot poisoning is a type of illness that is associated with the ingestion of alkaloids produced by the fungi claviceps perperia or sea purpuria.
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It's a fungus under the genus claviceps.
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So the specific type of fungus is found on rye and also other crops like wheat and barley.
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So here we have it on some of those grains.
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It can affect plants and crops that are typically considered forage plants as well.
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So you'll also find this disease in livestock.
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So the life cycle begins when an ergot kernel infects the host.
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So the fungi then continues to undergo proliferation, dividing, and growing, and just destroys the plant ovary.
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The first stage you'll see is a white soft tissue that will drop out of the host.
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And that white soft tissue will contain asexual spores that will infect additional host plants.
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So the tissue within the host is then converted into a hard sclerotium clavis within that husk.
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And at this specific stage, the alkaloids and lipids are going to start to accumulate...