On East Coast Road in Injambakkam, a strychnine tree stands with attention-grabbing branches, a few of them gnarled and all of them peculiarly stretched out in diverse directions. The branches seem to ...

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 ...

When the expansion of East Coast Road was on the drawing board, what seemed a possible death sentence for an old strychnine tree at Ponni Amman Koil in Injambakkam was revoked. When the State Highways ...

And now onto some naturally-occurring deadlies, the first of which comes from the seeds of a tree. How bad can that be? We know that berries can be poisonous, and of course mushrooms - but deadly ...

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 ...