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- Title
Las defensas físico-químicas de las plantas y su efecto en la alimentación de los rumiantes.
- Authors
Camacho-Escobar, Marco Antonio; Ramos-Ramos, Diego Arturo; Ávila-Serrano, Narciso Ysac; Sánchez-Bernal, Edgar Iván; López-Garrido, Serafín Jacobo
- Abstract
Plants are consumed by various organisms, this situation puts their survival at risk, so they have developed defense mechanisms that prevent their intake. For example, anatomical adaptations, chemical defenses or secondary metabolites. These phytochemicals inhibit the attack of pathogens, cause contact irritation, affect the cutaneous, gastrointestinal, cardiac and nervous systems of herbivores or can cause death. Ruminants have mechanical, physiological and ethological adaptations to evade plant defenses: rejection, regulation and biotransformation. They developed anatomic-physiological adaptations to house microbial symbionts to degrade cellulose and plant toxins. Some secondary metabolites may have benef icial effects in food or animal medicine, but more study needed on the subject.
- Publication
Terra Latinoamericana, 2020, Vol 38, Issue 2, p443
- ISSN
0187-5779
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.28940/terra.v38i2.629