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Rosary Pea (Abrus precatorius): Pretty Seed, Deadly Protein

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  • 1. Australian Institute of Pharmacognosy

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Rosary pea, crab's eye (Abrus precatorius): what abrin does, the poisonings on record, how to tell the seed from look-alikes, and Australian law.

Published by the Australian Institute of Pharmacognosy, Cardwell, Queensland. Journal edition: https://www.australian-pharmacognosy.org/blog/abrus-precatorius/

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Published by the Australian Institute of Pharmacognosy, Cardwell, Queensland, Australia. Author contributions: Dr Thomas Ridley: Researched and wrote the review. Dr Luke Iggulden: Senior author: conceived and directs the Institute's research and publication programme, set the editorial and evidence standards this work follows, reviewed this work, supervised the team, and provided the laboratory, library and funding behind it. In review he had it rewritten to the standard of the monograph series, with the Institute's own field photographs and iNaturalist records.

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