Anagyrine is a teratogenicalkaloid first isolated from (and named for) Anagyris foetida in the year 1885 by French biologists Hardy and Gallois.[6]A. foetida (family Fabaceae), the Stinking Bean Trefoil, is a highly toxic shrub native to the Mediterranean region, with a long history of use in folk medicine.[7][8] In the year 1939 Anagyrine was found by James Fitton Couch to be identical to an alkaloid present in many species belonging to the plant genus Lupinus (lupins).[9] The toxin can cause crooked calf disease if a cow ingests the plant during certain periods of pregnancy.
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^Couch, James Fitton. "Lupine Studies. XIV.1 The Isolation of Anagyrine FromLupinus Laxiflorusvar.silvicola C. P. Smith." Journal of the American Chemical Society 61.12 (1939): 3327-328. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja01267a027 Retrieved at 12.18 on 28/11/22.