Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition
Contents: Foreword. 1. Animal agriculture and carbon footprints/M. Wadhwa and M.P.S. Bakshi. 2. Mitigation of enteric methane production in relation to global warming/R.C. Jakhmola, M.K. Tripathi and P. Tripathi. 3. Promising plant secondary metabolites for enteric methane mitigation and rumen modulation/S.K. Sirohi, N. Singh and A.K. Puniya. 4. Methane production potential of feedstuffs and its implications/M.P.S. Bakshi, M. Wadhwa, J.S. Lamba and J.S. Hundal. 5. Rumen microbial diversity and fiber degradation/D.N. Kamra, N. Agarwal and L.C. Chaudhary. 6. Role of nutraceuticals in livestock production/C.S. Prasad, A.K. Samanta, A.P. Kolte and A. Dhali. 7. Feeding strategies for enhancing designer food production/H.K. Kanwal, A.K. Tyagi, A. Tyagi and A. Srivastava. 8. Endocrine basis of nutrition reproduction interactions/J.P. Ravindra. 9. Forage production and utilization/S.S. Kundu, G. Mondal, N. Tyagi and Chander Datt. 10. Hydroponics green fodder for dairy animals/P.K. Naik. 11. Pesticide residues in feedstuffs: impact on production, reproduction and animal products/J.P.S. Gill, S.P.S. Ghuman and J.S. Bedi. 12. Toxicants in feedstuffs: impact on health/V.M. Wadhawan. 13. Processing and utilization of poor quality crop residues as livestock feed/D. Nagalakshmi. 14. Nanotechnology: an emerging technology in animal production and reproduction/D. Rajendran, N.K.S. Gowda, S. Selvaraju and C.S. Prasad. 15. Nucleic acid based techniques for Rumen fibre degrading microbes/N. Agarwal, D.N. Kamra and L.C. Chaudhary. 16. Biomarkers for assessing the nutritional status of dairy animals/M. Wadhwa and M.P.S. Bakshi. 17. Alternative feed evaluation techniques-an overview/B. Singh.
The book presents latest comprehensive information on the various aspects of developing strategies in animal nutrition for environment friendly livestock production system. The book has covered the concepts like animal agriculture and carbon footprints, strategies to mitigate enteric methane production, Methane production potential of different feedstuffs, so as to formulate the rations with low enteric methane production, nutritional interventions like manipulating rumen microbial ecosystem, strategic supplementation of nutraceuticals, improving the bioavailability of nutrients at cellular level by using nanotechnology, Forage production throughout the year and production of hydroponics green fodders. The impact of pesticide residues and toxicants in feedstuffs on the productive and reproductive performance has been covered exhaustively. Biomarkers for assessing the nutritional status of dairy animals and alternate evaluation techniques are also discussed in details. The book covers the development of functional/designer animal products by manipulating the feeding practices to prove the saying of Hippocrate let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. This book will be useful and highly informative for PG students and faculty researchers/scientists and others working in a particular specialized field in Animal Nutrition.
