Please explain how cross pollination can cause toxic pumpkins

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Please explain how cross pollination can cause toxic pumpkins

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Pumpkins belong to a larger family including squashes and cucumbers some of these can pollinate pumpkins, some of these produce more of cucurbitacin a chemical found in trace amounts in pumpkins, this excess causes the pumpkins to become toxic.