Hostname: page-component-7c8c6479df-xxrs7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-03-29T10:55:06.444Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Deactivation of tannins in Leucaena leucocephala

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

A.P. Minho
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Animal Nutrition – Centre for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP) CP 96, CEP 13400-970, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
P.B. Godoy
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Animal Nutrition – Centre for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP) CP 96, CEP 13400-970, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
S.L.S. Cabral Filho
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Animal Nutrition – Centre for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP) CP 96, CEP 13400-970, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
I.C.S. Bueno
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Animal Nutrition – Centre for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP) CP 96, CEP 13400-970, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
E.F. Nozella
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Animal Nutrition – Centre for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP) CP 96, CEP 13400-970, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
A.L. Abdalla
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Animal Nutrition – Centre for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP) CP 96, CEP 13400-970, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
D.M.S.S. Vitti*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Animal Nutrition – Centre for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP) CP 96, CEP 13400-970, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
Get access

Extract

Tannins can produce toxic and anti-nutritional effects in monogastric and ruminant animals: reduced feed intake, lower nutrient digestibility and protein availability. Leucaena leucocephala has high concentration of condensed tannins (about 6 % CT), however is probably the most widely in use tree legume in the world. The aim of this experiment was to evaluate different treatments to deactivate tannins in Leucaena leucocephala.

Type
Poster Presentations
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2004

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, 1995. Official methods of analysis of the AOAC, 16.ed. Arlington: AOAC International, 1. 4/1-4/30.Google Scholar
Hove., L.; Topps, J.H.; Sibanda, S.; Ndlovu, L.R., 2001. Nutrient intake and utilisation by goats fed dried leaves of the shrub legumes Acacia angustissima, Calliandra calothyrsus and Leucena leucocephala as supplements to native pasture hay. Animal Feed Science and Technology, 91: 95106.Google Scholar
Makkar., H.P.S. Quantification of tannins in tree foliage. Vienna: FAO; IAEA. 2000. (Laboratory Manual).Google Scholar
Makkar, H.P.S. and Singh, B., 1991. Effect of drying condicions on tannin, fibre and lignin levelsin mature oak (Quercus incana) leaves. J. Sci. Food Agric. 54: 323328.Google Scholar
van Soest, P.J.; Robertson, J.B., Lewis, B.R., 1991. Methods for dietary fibre, neutral detergent fibre, and non-starch polysaccharides in relation to animal nutrition. J. Dairy Sci., 74: 35833597.Google Scholar