Information storage and retreival program

There is a vast range of naturally occurring toxic chemicals such as those found in poisonous plants and mushrooms to which individuals and populations are exposed. So, thousands of deaths have occurred during poisoning incidents from micromecetes present on seeds from weeds growing with grain crops. It is not known precisely how many people world over suffer and die every year through poisons of vegetable origin, for example, from poisonous mushrooms, but they can be numbered in hundreds of thousands.

What is the PhytoTox1 Program?

Each toxicological center or emergency hospital needs to establish an effective means of responding to poisoning cases and to have adequate poison control facilities.

The PhytoTox1 comes to the toxicologist's aid. It is a poisons information database management software which provides information on poisonous plants and toxins they produce; mechanisms of toxin action and first aid measures. It includes information on more than 1400 plants.

The PhytoTox1 lets you look up toxicology data by:

• plant name,including:
• poisonous higher plants;
• acquatic weeds;
• micromecetes;
• pathogenic macromecetes (poisonous mushrooms); and
• symptoms and syndromes

Besides, the PhytoTox1 includes the package of drawings of some pathogenic mushrooms (macromecetes) and of their edible "twins", as well as important features to differentiate between them.