Mushroom amino acids revealed as cause of deaths in Yunnan province
Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 09:01
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- Was the consumption of toxic mushrooms responsible for a series of unusual deaths in Chinas Yunnan province? A team led by Ji-Kai Liu (Beijing) has now found further proof of this hypothesis. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, the researchers now present two unusual toxic amino acids that they found in extracts from the suspect mushrooms.