Ulrike Steiner

Ergot Alkaloids and their Hallucinogenic Potential in Morning Glories

Planta Medica March 2, 2018 Ulrike Steiner, Eckhard Leistner 28 citations

Abstract Naturally occurring and semisynthetic ergot alkaloids play a role in health care or as recreational drugs in Western and indigenous Mexican societies. Evidence is summarized that ergot alkaloids present in Central American Convolvulaceae like Turbina corymbosa, Ipomoea violacea, and Ipomoea asarifolia are colonized by different species of a newly described clavicipitaceous fungal genus...