The article deals with the issue of ecological and toxicological state Volkhov Bay Ladoga Lake — one most polluted water areas reservoir, which is important fisheries importance has a significant impact on quality Neva River in winter. Biological chemical-analytical studies conducted summer this year showed mass lesions fish chronic toxicosis. study bottom sediments did not reveal pronounced de...

Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea, Shreb.) is the predominant cool-season, perennial grass in the eastern half of the United States, and the majority is infected with the endemic endophyte (E+) Neotyphodium coenophialum, resulting in millions of dollars in revenues lost to the beef industry. Endophyte-free (E-) tall fescue was initially tapped as a "silver bullet" for the solution to fescue toxi...

Fusariotoxin T-2 is a mycotoxin produced by Fusarium tricinctum which was implicated in moldy corn toxicosis of farm animals. Graded concentrations of dietary fusariotoxin T-2 (0, 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16 mug/g, respectively) were given to groups of 40 chickens. Raised yellowish-white lesions on the mouth parts were produced by all concentrations, and the size of the lesions was dose-related. The gro...