Opportunities to use secondary plant compounds to manage diet selection and gut health of grazing herbivores
1.Grazing herbivores and plants have co‐evolved such that plant chemistry and animal metabolism are intimately linked.2.Whilst conventionally‐measured traits of plant nutritive value provide invaluable information to help predict animal performance, there are many situations where knowledge of secondary plant compounds can provide insights into the interactions between plants and herbivores.3.Secondary compounds can affect diet selection and, sometimes, longer‐term feed intake.4.Secondary compounds can interact with rumen microbes to alter fermentation profiles and can be toxic towards nematode parasites in the gastrointestinal intestinal tract thereby providing a naturalmeans to help control these important pests.5.Combining plant traits with knowledge of animal behaviour can aid our design and management of mixed plant assemblies that address both animal production and natural resource management goals.
Secondary plant compounds diet selection gut health
D.K.Revell A.Kotze D.T.Thomas
CSIRO Livestock Industries,Private Bag 5,Wembley WA 6９13,Australia
国际会议
呼和浩特
英文
2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）