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Determination of growth inhibitors and toxins

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Title Determination of growth inhibitors and toxins
 
Creator Paulraj, R
Ahamed Ali, S
 
Subject Aquaculture
 
Description Certain feedstuffs contain natural toxins that; at high
enough levels, are growth inhibitors and sometimes fatal to the
animal consuming them. Principal among these are: (a) Urease-an
enzyme found in raw soybean which produces toxicity through the
hydrolysis of urea to ammonia; (b) gosaypol-an endogenous toxin
present in the gland of cottonseed which persists during production
of the meal unless removed by a special process, or, unless,
the cotton seed is a glandless variety; (c) Isothiocyanatescyanogenic
glycosides are found in linseed and cassava; (d) aflatoxin
is a class of extremely potent toxins produced by the mould
Aspergillus flavus. Aflatoxin may be present in any materials
produced and stored under hot and humid conditions and is usually
found in groundnut cake, palm cake, copra cake and maize.
 
Publisher CMFRI; Kochi
 
Date 1982
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/3167/1/Spl_8-5.pdf
Paulraj, R and Ahamed Ali, S (1982) Determination of growth inhibitors and toxins. CMFRI Special Publication (8). pp. 34-42.