The term competitive environment refers to the number and types of companies against which a given business competes in its industry. Direct competitors are those that sell very similar goods and...
Strychnine is not found in Hawaiian baby woodrose seeds, peyote, LSD, discount luncheon meats, Chilean grapes, or even modern-day rat poisons. The most likely place to find strychnine is in myths posted to alt.drugs based on hearsay and other unreliable sources.
Strychnine is a terpene indole alkaloid belonging to the Strychnos family of Corynanthe alkaloids, and it is derived from tryptamine and secologanin. The enzyme, strictosidine synthase, catalyzes the condensation of tryptamine and secologanin, followed by a Pictet-Spengler reaction to form strictosidine.