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mature, these mtrate levels decline rapidly so that by the time bloom stage is reached, nitrate levels are very low.”
If the plant is not growing, however, this transformation from nitrate to protein does not occur and nitrate collects in large, often fatal, doses.
When these plants are fed to ruminants such as cattle, sheep and goats, they react wtih hemoglobin, the oxygencarrying part of the blood. “This reaction reduces the ability of the blood to carry oxygen to various parts of the body,” White said. “If the condition progresses to the extreme, the animal actually suffocates from lack of oxygen.” Young, growing and
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