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Adapting ruminants to Leucaena toxicity
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Adapting ruminants to Leucaena toxicity
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Ruminants fed leucaena, in Hawaii where the shrub is naturalized, show no toxicity to the alkaloids contained in the plant's foliage, whereas ruminants fed the foliage in countries where the plant has been recently introduced may do so. Assuming that Hawaiian ruminants had acquired bacteria capable of breaking down the alkaloids in the rumen, Australian scientists developed a technique for transferring rumen bacteria from leucaena-tolerant ruminants to animals not used to the plant. Having successfully transferred leucaena alkaloid degrading bacteria from Hawaii to Australia, a further transfer from Australia to China, has been achieved by CSIRO scientists For more details, contact: Dr Raymond Jones CSIRO Davis Laboratory Townsville Queensland AUSTRALIA Ruminants fed leucaena, in Hawaii where the shrub is naturalized, show no toxicity to the alkaloids contained in the plant's foliage, whereas ruminants fed the foliage in countries where the plant has been recently introduced may do so. Assuming... |
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1988
2014-10-02T13:13:40Z 2014-10-02T13:13:40Z |
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News Item
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CTA. 1988. Adapting ruminants to Leucaena toxicity. Spore 15. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/44867 http://collections.infocollections.org/ukedu/en/d/Jcta15e/ |
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en
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Spore
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Open Access
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Spore
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