A5077370229- Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Reproductive Physiology in Livestock
- Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Plant Toxicity and Pharmacological Properties
- Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Nuts composition and effects
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Gout, Hyperuricemia, Uric Acid
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
- Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Phytochemistry and Biological Activities
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
University of Pisa
2021-2025
This study aimed to assess consumer knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions toward dairy products from sheep goats. A web-based survey was conducted in Latin America (Mexico Chile), Europe (Italy, Spain, Greece, Denmark), Asia (Bangladesh). From March June 2021, adult participants answered an online available 5 languages. In total, 1,879 surveys were completed. Categorical ordinal data analyzed as frequencies percentages. To determine the relationship between variables for purchasing...
Abstract Background Dietary supplements based on tannin extracts or essential oil compounds (EOC) have been repeatedly reported as a promising feeding strategy to reduce the environmental impact of ruminant husbandry. A previous batch culture screening various identified selected mixtures with an enhanced potential mitigate ruminal methane and ammonia formation. Among these, Q-2 (named after quebracho extract EOC blend 2, composed carvacrol, thymol, eugenol) C-10 (chestnut 10, consisting...
The increasing salinization of agricultural soils urges us to find alternative and sustainable farming systems in order allow the exploitation areas that are otherwise becoming less suitable for conventional crops. Thanks their adaptation extreme saline conditions, halophytes promising plants resilient systems, such as intercropping with glycophytes, ameliorate productivity soils. This research aimed evaluate whether nutritional profile content some health-promoting compounds edible portion...
Abstract In spring 2021, 50 growing steers and heifers of the Maremmana breed (average age 321 d weight 287 kg) were rotationally stocked under two different treatments (silvopastoral pastoral). The aim was to evaluate influence grazing system on cattle growth welfare, pasture depletion. experiment carried out a real Mediterranean agrosilvopastoral farm, located in central Italy. To implement rotational grazing, 3.69 ha temporary grassland split into six paddocks, three for each treatment....
Tannins and essential oils (EOs) have been previously described for their properties to mitigate ruminal methane ammonia. Their combination might be even more efficient, as they different modes of action on rumen pathways. This study aimed screen in vitro the mitigating variously combining tannins with EO a total 48 treatments: 12 single additives, 10 mg or 20 tannins/g diet, establish basal efficiency; 36 combinations + 10–15 EO. Quebracho (Q) chestnut (C) defined C, Q C/Q groups mixtures...
The livestock sector constitutes 14.5% of global green-house gas (GHG) emissions and soil water pollution due to nitrogen excretion. Methane excretions in ruminants can be mitigated by specific feeding strategies, tannins reduce methanogenesis ammonia syntheses. In our study, two kinds condensed (Mimosa Gambier) hydrolysable (Chestnut Tara) were added (4 g/100 g DM) a basal feed (barley: 48 DM, wheat bran: 23 dehydrated alfalfa hay:15 soybean meal: 10 DM molasses: 2 DM), inoculated with...
Several edible agro-industrial co-products have been studied as unconventional ingredients in ruminant diets to reduce the environmental impact of food production chains. When chemical profile is characterised by presence bioactive molecules, they represent a promising tool modulate rumen microbiota activity. In Mediterranean area, olive oil chain generates pomace and tree leaves post-milling that are animal bio-waste. Two vitro trials were carried out investigate effect dietary on...
Exposure to air and light lowers the meat quality of chickens, which is mainly determined by color alteration accumulation detrimental products from lipid oxidation. This study tests effects 2 supplements rich in polyphenols, Oxilem (OX) OxiGem (OG), on broiler Ross 308 performance comparison a control group (C). A total 105 one-day-old male chicks were allocated 21 pens randomly assigned 1 3 treatments. The trial lasted 42 d. Individual live weight feed intake per pen recorded. Proximate...
This study aimed to characterise the fibre composition of Triceps brachii (TB) and Semimembranosus (SM) muscles from 20 Maremmana (MA) Aubrac (AU) steers, effect grazing activity in comparison with feedlot system. The histochemical method was performed m-ATPase an acid pre-incubation, thus allowing distinguish type I, IIA, IIB fibres. Additionally, on total RNA extracted SM muscle, expressions atp1a1, mt-atp6, capn1 genes were evaluated, order find potential associations muscle...
In cattle dairy systems, the enteric methane emission represents a relevant part of total emissions as CO <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</inf> -eq. next years, novel strategies are required to reduce environmental impacts livestock, due increase products consumption. So, further smart techniques necessary quantify effectiveness mitigation strategies. Several procedures available estimate such as: (i) respiration chamber, and...