
Feed Additives
Aromatic Plants and Herbs in Animal Nutrition and Health
- 1st Edition - September 19, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Panagiota Florou-Paneri, Efterpi Christaki, Ilias Giannenas
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 4 7 0 0 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 4 7 0 1 - 6
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Request a sales quoteFeed Additives: Aromatic Plants and Herbs in Animal Nutrition and Health explores the use of aromatic plants and their extracts, including essential oils in animal nutrition. It provides details about the development of bacteria resistance to antibiotics. All chapters provide a holistic approach on how aromatic plants can provide an efficient solution to animal health, also covering the main categories of animals, including poultry, pigs, ruminants and aquaculture. This book represents an up-to-date review of the existing knowledge on aromatic plants, both in vitro and in vivo and the basis for future research.
- Covers different categories of animals and novel feed trends with functional properties
- Examines a variety of natural sources based on plant functional substances to promote antioxidant, antimicrobial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory properties and digestive stimulations
- Explores the chemistry and mechanism of action of plant extracts in animal nutrition
- Includes sustainable solutions for the use of natural additives as growth promoters
Nutritionists, Veterinarians, Agro scientists, Food scientists, Botanologists, Biologists, Students Animal sciences
I. Giannenas, E. Sidiropoulou, E. Bonos, E. Christaki, and P. Florou-Paneri
2. Innovative uses of aromatic plants as natural supplements in nutrition
E. Christaki, I. Giannenas, E. Bonos, and P. Florou-Paneri
3. Herbs and aromatic plants as feed additives: aspects of composition, safety, and registration rules
Ch M. Franz, K.H.C. Baser, and I. Hahn-Ramssl
4. Sustainable use of mediterranean medicinal-aromatic plants
Katerina Grigoriadou, Nikos Krigas, Diamanto Lazari, and Eleni Maloupa
5. Aromatic plants and their extracts pharmacokinetics and in vitro/in vivo mechanisms of action
Ivana Cabarkapa, Nikola Puvaca, Sanja Popovic, Dusica Colovic, Ljiljana Kostadinovic, Eleanor Karp Tatham, and Jovanka Levi
6. Distribution of aromatic plants in the world and their properties
Amit Kumar Pandey, Praful Kumar, M.J. Saxena, and Prabhakar Maurya
7. Herbal extracts as antiviral agents
A.R. Yasmin, S.L. Chia, Q.H. Looi, A.R. Omar, M.M. Noordin, and A. Ideris
8. Functional ingredients derived from aromatic plants
Sonia A. Socaci, Anca C. Farca¸s, and Maria Tofanӑ
9. Toxic or harmful components of aromatic plants in animal nutrition
Maria Grazia Cappai and Sabine Aboling
10. Application of aromatic plants and their extracts in diets of broiler chickens
Lizhi Jin, Yueming Dersjant-Li, and Ilias Giannenas
11. Application of aromatic plants and their extracts in the diets of laying hens
David Harrington, Heidi Hall, David Wilde, and Wendy Wakeman
12. Application of aromatic plants and their extracts in diets of turkeys
Mehmet Bozkurt and Ahmet Engin Tüzün
13. Application of plant essential oils in pig diets
Hong-Kui Wei, Jun Wang, Chuanshang Cheng, Li-Zhi Jin, and Jian Peng
14. Application of aromatic plants and their extracts in aquaculture
Ángel Hernández-Contreras and María Dolores Hernández
15. Application of aromatic plants and their extracts in dairy animals
Mariangela Caroprese, Maria Giovanna Ciliberti, and Marzia Albenzio
16. The effects of aromatic plants and their extracts in food products
Bojana Filipcev
17. The effects of plant extracts on the immune system of livestock: the isoquinoline alkaloids model
Valeria Artuso-Ponte, Anja Pastor, and Manfred Andratsch
18. Effects of phytobiotics in healthy or disease challenged animal
Ioannis Skoufos, Eleftherios Bonos, Ioannis Anastasiou, Anastasios Tsinas, and Athina Tzora
19. Resistance of bacteria, fungi, and parasites to antibiotics or natural substances of botanical origin
Christos Papaneophytou, Ilias Giannenas, and Catalin Dragomir
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 19, 2019
- No. of pages (Paperback): 380
- No. of pages (eBook): 380
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128147009
- eBook ISBN: 9780128147016
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Panagiota Florou-Paneri
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Efterpi Christaki
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