May 1, 2015 · Results showed that the seeds had a lethal concentration of a compound called beta-ODAP that has caused gradual weakening and paralysis in famine victims relying on a …

Sep 13, 2013 · In his book, Krakauer wrote that his hunch was that McCandless was somehow poisoned by the seeds of Hedysarum alpinum, also known as the wild potato. Before his …

May 2, 2016 · Shortly after the first edition of Into the Wild was published in January 1996, University of Alaska chemists Edward Treadwell and Thomas Clausen shot down my theory …

Wild potatoes can be hybridized with domesticated potatoes to introduce new traits. Wild potatoes can be propagated from tubers or seeds, but seeds are more commonly available. This guide …

Sep 13, 2013 · The author theorized in Into the Wild that wild potato seeds, which were found all over McCandless’ shelter, were the culprit, even though they weren’t believed to be toxic.

Sep 12, 2013 · I speculated that he had inadvertently poisoned himself by eating seeds from a plant commonly called wild potato, known to botanists as Hedysarum alpinum.

Nov 11, 2014 · In a fascinating 2013 followup article in The New Yorker, Krakauer finally confirmed the cause of McCandless' death: a toxic amino acid in wild potato seeds, previously …

Solanum albicans is a wild potato species from Peru, thought to be a hybrid of Solanum acaule and S. sogarandinum. It is very similar to S. acaule in being very frost resistant.

May 17, 2020 · The paper concluded that L-canavanine (an antimetabolite with demonstrated toxicity in mammals) was a significant component of wild potato seeds and because they …

Wild potato seeds contain an amino acid known to prevent the absorption of nutrients and slowly paralyze the person ingesting them, making an already-weak body unable to hunt or gather …