Formulations of Fusarium oxysporum Schlechtend:Fr. f.sp. erythroxyli isolate EN-4, pathogenic to Erythroxylum coca var. coca (coca) were evaluated in greenhouse and field studies to determine their ...

Since the Western world came across the South American plant genus Erythroxylum, the use of this multifaceted genus has been associated with the production of soft drinks, such as Coca Cola, or with ...

• Background and Aims The four cultivated Erythroxylum taxa (E. coca var. coca, E. novogranatense var. novogranatense, E. coca var. ipadu and E. novogranatense var. truxillense) are indigenous to the ...

Tropane alkaloids (TAs) are heterocyclic nitrogenous metabolites found across seven orders of angiosperms, including Malpighiales (Erythroxylaceae) and Solanales (Solanaceae). Despite the ...

All lucrative plants are grown in multiple locations, as far as I know. So why is coca only cultivated in South America? All lucrative plants are grown in multiple locations, as far as I know. So why ...

A new paper published today in Molecular Biology and Evolution reveals that it's not as straightforward as it might seem. Despite decades of data collection by the United Nations Office on Drugs and ...

Sometime between ad 905 and ad 1170, an indigenous shaman was buried in a rock shelter in the southwest desert of present-day Bolivia, and with him or her, a large leather bag holding ritual ...