This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Asclepias syriaca L. (common milkweed) is known to contain sufficient amounts of cardiac glycosides, which are known to be toxic to humans ...

From sago palms to milkweed, there are toxic plants all around us. But they're not all monsters. Here's how to live with them ...

Scientists have long known that milkweed cardenolides, which in most animals disable a vital sodium-potassium pump enzyme if they are absorbed into the blood, serve to make caterpillars and ...

Other data presented showed that various strains of Bt corn had differing rates of toxicity to monarchs, that harmful pollen is often washed off or blown off milkweed leaves, and that 95% of corn ...

the ability to digest milkweed toxins and become poisonous to predators. Making just three genetic changes turned regular fruit flies into “monarch flies,” able to withstand plant toxins and ...