  The space of toroidal automorphic forms was introduced by Zagier in 1979. Let
$F$ be a global field. An automorphic form on $\GL(2)$ is toroidal if it has
vanishing constant Fourier coefficients along all embedded non-split tori. The
interest in this space stems from the fact (amongst others) that an Eisenstein
series of weight $s$ is toroidal if $s$ is a non-trivial zero of the zeta
function, and thus a connection with the Riemann hypothesis is established.
  In this paper, we concentrate on the function field case. We show the
following results. The $(n-1)$-th derivative of a non-trivial Eisenstein series
of weight $s$ and Hecke character $\chi$ is toroidal if and only if
$L(\chi,s+1/2)$ vanishes in $s$ to order at least $n$ (for the "only if"-part
we assume that the characteristic of $F$ is odd). There are no non-trivial
toroidal residues of Eisenstein series. The dimension of the space of
derivatives of unramified Eisenstein series equals $h(g-1)+1$ if the
characterisitc is not 2; in characteristic 2, the dimension is bounded from
below by this number. Here $g$ is the genus and $h$ is the class number of $F$.
The space of toroidal automorphic forms is an admissible representation and
every irreducible subquotient is tempered.
