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Beneficial effects of plant extracts in ruminant nutrition: A review

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Title Beneficial effects of plant extracts in ruminant nutrition: A review
 
Creator SALEM, A Z M
RONQUILLO, M
CAMACHO, L M
CERRILLO, S M A
DOMÍNGUEZ, I A
BÓRQUEZ, J L
 
Subject Beneficial effects
Plant extracts
Ruminants
Secondary metabolites
 
Description Use of antibiotics in animal feeds was banned hence researches on alternative natural products that can modulate ruminal fermentation have been intensified. Plant extracts are considered as natural compounds that can replace antibiotics as safe and sustainable alternatives. Extracts contain some plant secondary metabolites (PSM) that are a natural resource and are largely unexploited in ‘conventional’ animal production systems. They are considered as a source of anti- nutritional factors and not as a source of exploitable performance-enhancing compounds. Recent and continuing changes to legislation controlling the use of animal feed additives have stimulated interest in bioactive PSM as alternative performance enhancers. Interest is largely on their manipulative role in digestive and absorptive processes of the hindgut.
The aim of the present review is to discuss the use of plants and their extracts to manipulate the rumen microbial ecosystem to improve the efficiency of rumen metabolism. The bioavailability of PSM and their actions on peripheral metabolism will be considered with a view to improve animal performance. In order to fully exploit their bioactive properties for the benefit of animal performance, modes of action need to be understood.
 
Publisher Indian Council of Agricultural Research
 
Date 2012-10-11
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Review Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/24275
10.56093/ijans.v82i10.24275
 
Source The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences; Vol. 82 No. 10 (2012); 1117–1121
2394-3327
0367-8318
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/24275/11507
 
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