Q. In certain pans of India, muscular dystrophy is commonly found amongst the poor peof because they eat cheap pulse from the planrl

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Solution:

The seeds of khesari dal (Lathyrus sativus) contain a neurotoxin ie, -oxalyl amino alanine which causes muscular distrophy and the disease is known as Lathyrism.