Lecture 7 - Anti nutritional factors in feeds Flashcards
Example of global climate change
2012 North American drought
Drought, flooding and temp changes can
increase chance of mycotoxin contamination of feed grains
Increase chances of mycotoxin combinations in feed
global trading of feed grains
Most common found mycotoxins
aflatoxin
fusarium toxins
Fusarium toxins more difficult to analyze
- large number of compounds
- widely varying chemical structures
What is necessary to analyze fusarium toxins
DON as a marker compound
Found in naturally contaminated corn and wheat from slovakia?
biologically active
non detectable
glucose conjugates of DON
- fraction of total DON represented by glucose conjugate is up to 30%
Chemical hydrolysis of feed samples before DON measurements resulted in
up to 88% increase in detectable DON in barely
- north dakota
Glucose conjugates of what compound have been reported?>
zearalenone fumonisin nivalenol fusarenon-X T-2 toxin HT-2 toxin
Use what in lab to optimize hydrolysis conditions for corn and wheat
TFMSA
-trifluoromethanesulfonic acid
Avg increase in Canadian wheat with acid hydrolysis treatment
36.8%
7%-64%
Avg DON increase in corn with acid hydrolysis treatment
35.5%
17%-70%
2012 US corn crop (alfatoxin)
some alfatoxin but within legal limit
Fumomosin incidence
Significant amounts reported in 2012 in U.S corn
- formed from strain of fusaium fungi
- same strain forms fusaric acid
- crops not typically analyzed for this
Most sensitive species to fusarium toxins
swine and horses
- poultry more resistant but have altered metabolism and specific legions
- ruminant animals most resistant, but effect reproduction and milk production
Fumonisins effects
inhibit synthesis of membrane lipids
- result “equine leucoencephalomalacia”
- ataxia and sudden death
- massive atrophy of the brain
Fumonisins required to produce syndrome
3ppm
Major source of fumonisins
corn and corn screening
Trichothecenes
family of 100+ structurally related toxins
- feed refusal toxins
- most common deoxynivalenol (DON)