Many of us know strychnine from crime reports, novels or films. Agatha Christie had several of her victims die of strychnine poisoning. She described what is probably the best-known fictional murder ...

Strychnine, a poisonous alkaloid from the Strychnos nux-vomica tree, has fascinated chemists for more than 200 years, inspiring them to determine its complex molecular skeleton and to reconstruct the ...

A research team has disclosed the complete biosynthetic pathway for the formation of strychnine in the plant species Strychnos nux-vomica (poison nut). The researchers identified all genes involved in ...