NOUN
- any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin
How To Use plant toxin In A Sentence
- The caterpillars harness the plant toxins and use them as a natural defence against predation.
- I was in the lab, so we had a chat, yes—about trichothecenes—and also about our work on other plant toxins, such as abrin from Abrus precatorius and the toxin from aconite. Day of the Dandelion
- They were close to weaponizing ricin—a lethal plant toxin.
- The value of defenses such as spines or sticky hairs, the regurgitation of plant toxins on an enemy, and the ability to mimic a snake is easy to imagine.
- The plant toxin renders both the caterpillar and the adult butterfly particularly repellent to natural enemies.
- It's actually an alkaloid plant toxin (like nicotine and cocaine), a bug killer that stimulates us by blocking neuroreceptors for the sleep chemical adenosine.
- Also, when monoclonal antibodies were coupled to bacterial or plant toxins for e.g. Exotoxin A of pseudomonas aeruginosa or abrin from Abrus precatorious penetrates the cell membrane and inhibits protein synthesis. Monoclonal Antibodies in Clinical Research