Ergot is a parasitic fungus that contaminates feed in animal farming. Its toxicity causes vasoconstriction, resulting in ...

ERGOT has been under active scientific investigation for two generations, and has provided sociological problems for ten centuries; its secrets are now almost all laid bare, and at the moment when ...

Prior to that discovery in 1909, another fungal metabolite called Ergothioneine (ERGO), a naturally occurring amino acid that contains a sulfur atom on the imidazole ring, was discovered in Ergot ...