Ruminant diets include cereals, protein feeds, their by-products as well as hay and grass,
grass/legume, whole-crop maize, small grain or sorghum silages. Furthermore, ruminants …

Mycotoxins are secondary fungal metabolites, toxic to humans, animals and plants. Among
the hundreds of known mycotoxins, aflatoxins, citrinin, patulin, penicillic acid, tenuazonic …

Fungi are ubiquitous and formation of mycotoxins can occur in all agricultural commodities
under appropriate field or storage conditions throughout the animal feed supply chain. In this …

The aim of this paper is to review the role of methane in the global warming scenario and to
examine the contribution to atmospheric methane made by enteric fermentation, mainly by …

One of the major classes of mycotoxins posing serious hazards to humans and animals and
potentially causing severe economic impact to the cereal industry are the trichothecenes …

From the ancient period, Green leafy vegetables (GLV) are part of the daily diet and were
believed to have several health beneficial properties. Later it has been proved that GLV has …

Phytosterols (plant sterols) are triterpenes that are important structural components of plant
membranes, and free phytosterols serve to stabilize phospholipid bilayers in plant cell …

In the early 1900s, numerous seminal publications reported that high rates of cancer
occurred in certain occupations. During this period, work with infectious agents produced …

Condensed tannins (CT) have improved liveweight gain, wool production and reproductive
efficiency in sheep fed temperate forages and reduced the impact of gastro-intestinal …

Plant secondary metabolites, which include a wide variety of phytochemicals, have always
been constituents of the diets of man and other animals. Although a high proportion of these …