Newsgroups: alt.drugs From: dgross@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Dave Gross) Subject: Excerpt: Ergot Peptide Alkaloid Spectra of Claviceps-Infected Tall Fescue, Wheat, and Barley. Message-ID: <1994Apr27.010110.2700@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 94 01:01:10 GMT I thought some of you might be interested in this: Table excerpted from "Ergot Peptide Alkaloid Spectra of Claviceps-Infected Tall Fescue, Wheat, and Barley" by James K. Porter, Charles W. Bacon, Ronald D. Plattner, and Richard F. Arrendale. J. Agric. Food Chem. 1987 (35) 359-361. Relative Percent Ergopeptide Alkaloids in the Crude Alkaloid Fraction (Determined by MS/MS) alkaloid [Claviceps purpurea grown on] fescue barley wheat ------------------------------------------------ ------ ------ ------ ergotamine 35.80 48.96 9.59 ergosine and Beta-ergosine 26.96 3.77 1.97 ergonine 0.11 0.14 none ergovaline 0.30 2.22 0.44 ergostine 0.85 0.39 0.74 ergoptine and Beta-ergotine 0.18 0.10 0.17 ergocornine 2.22 6.86 6.64 ergocristine 30.65 27.72 75.77 ergocryptine and Beta-ergocryptine 2.95 9.85 4.67 total (PDAB) 0.46 0.92 1.10 mg/g mg/g mg/g -- ***** INTERNET: dgross@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU **** finger for PGP public key ***** "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters." -- Frederick Douglass