Effects of Plant Tannin on the Nutrition and Healthy Production of Ruminant：A Review

doi:10.11733/j.issn.1007-0435.2013.06.002

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Effects of Plant Tannin on the Nutrition and Healthy Production of Ruminant：A Review

LI Yuan-heng¹, JIN Long^2,3, HAN Guo-dong¹, WANG Zheng-wen⁴, ZHAO Meng-li¹, WANG Yu-xi³

1. College of Ecology and Environmental Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, 010019, China;
2. Department of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province 150030, China;
3. Lethbridge Research Center, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, Alberta, T1J 4B1, Canada;
4. State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, Liaoning Province 110016, China

Received:2013-10-03 Revised:2013-11-01 Online:2013-12-15 Published:2013-11-27

植物单宁在反刍动物营养和健康养殖作用中的研究进展

李元恒¹, 金龙^2,3, 韩国栋¹, 王正文⁴, 赵萌莉¹, 王玉玺³

1. 内蒙古农业大学生态环境学院, 内蒙古呼和浩特 010019;
2. 东北农业大学动物科学与技术学院, 黑龙江哈尔滨 150030;
3. 加拿大农业与农业食品部列桥研究中心, 列桥加拿大 T1J 4B1;
4. 中国科学院沈阳应用生态研究所, 辽宁沈阳 110016

通讯作者: 韩国栋
作者简介:李元恒（1982-），男，内蒙古乌兰察布人，博士研究生，主要从事牧草营养学和草地生态学研究，E-mail：nmglyh@hotmail.com
基金资助:
国家行业公益（农业）专项（201003019）；科技部科技支撑项目（2012BAD13B02）资助

Abstract

Abstract: Plant tannins, a group of phenolic compounds derived from secondary metabolism of plants, are widely distributed in plant kingdom through tropical and temperate zone. The contents of tannins differ greatly among different plant species with range from 0.5 to 349 g·kg^-1 DM. Due to the complex synthesis of tannin, all of biotic and abiotic factors involved in plant growth and development may influence the ultimate accumulation of tannin. Unique nutrient content and chemical structure of tannin play an important role in manipulating the nutrition metabolism and healthy production of ruminant. Positive or negative effects of condensed tannin in the rumen of ruminant are depended on the concentration and reactivity of tannin. The appreciable quantities of condensed tannins in plant combining with plant rubisco (protein) are associated with improving the efficiency of protein utilization, increasing rumen undegradable protein, resisting both bloating and parasite disease occurrence. Plant tannins also affect the wool growth rate and yield, ovulation rate, milk production as well as reproduction efficiency of ruminant animal. The interactions of plant tannins and the nutrition and healthy production of ruminant are elucidated in this review.

Key words: Tannin, Protein, Bloating disease, Animal metabolism, Animal husbandry

摘要： 植物单宁是植物以碳为基础的酚类次生代谢产物，普遍分布在热带和温带植物体中，不同植物其单宁含量存在较大变异，其浓度范围分布为0.5~349 g·kg^-1。单宁合成过程复杂多变，参与植物生长发育的生物和非生物因子都可能影响单宁最终的累积量。单宁类植物差异性的营养含量和化学结构在调控反刍动物营养代谢和健康养殖中起着重要作用，适量的缩合单宁在反刍动物瘤胃内通过结合植物蛋白质，提高植物蛋白利用效率。同时在反刍动物后消化道内，单宁和瘤胃结合蛋白解离过程起到增加过瘤胃蛋白保护作用，抑制膨胀病和寄生虫的发生。单宁在动物体内的代谢同样影响反刍动物毛生长率和产毛量，排卵率和产奶量等生产和繁殖性能。本文整合论述了植物单宁在动物营养和健康养殖中的作用，了解和掌握植物单宁的含量和性质能更好地为畜牧业发展服务，实现反刍动物最优的生产性状和表现。

关键词: 单宁, 蛋白质, 膨胀病, 动物代谢, 畜牧业

CLC Number:

S577

LI Yuan-heng, JIN Long, HAN Guo-dong, WANG Zheng-wen, ZHAO Meng-li, WANG Yu-xi. Effects of Plant Tannin on the Nutrition and Healthy Production of Ruminant：A Review[J]. , 2013, 21(6): 1043-1051.

李元恒, 金龙, 韩国栋, 王正文, 赵萌莉, 王玉玺. 植物单宁在反刍动物营养和健康养殖作用中的研究进展[J]. , 2013, 21(6): 1043-1051.

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