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Synthesize multidisciplinary evidence on how condensed tannin concentration, molecular structure, and overall diet composition influence ruminant performance, health, and environmental sustainability.

November 29, 2018Crop ScienceOpen Access

Benefits of Condensed Tannins in Forage Legumes Fed to Ruminants: Importance of Structure, Concentration, and Diet Composition

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IMI. Mueller‐HarveyUnited States Department of Agriculture GBG. BeeAgroscope FDF. Dohme‐MeierNutrition Sciences (Belgium)

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Review demonstrates that forage condensed tannins enhance production and suppress parasites in ruminants, highlighting the combined roles of molecular structure, concentration, and diet.

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Synthesize multidisciplinary evidence on how condensed tannin concentration, molecular structure, and overall diet composition influence ruminant performance, health, and environmental sustainability.
Reviewed interdisciplinary findings across agronomy, plant breeding, phytochemistry, animal nutrition, and veterinary parasitology.
Synthesized research focusing on sainfoin (Onobrychis spp.) alongside other tanniniferous forage legumes fed to ruminants.
Dietary condensed tannins improve livestock growth, milk yield, wool production, and fertility while reducing enteric methane emissions and nitrogen excretion via ammonia volatilization.
Condensed tannins provide vital anthelmintic activity against gastrointestinal parasitic nematodes, with bioactivity depending heavily on specific molecular structural traits alongside dietary concentration.

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Mueller‐Harvey et al. (2018) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69dbb8bd78a3e0e288685672 https://doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2017.06.0369

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Review demonstrates that forage condensed tannins enhance production and suppress parasites in ruminants, highlighting the combined roles of molecular structure, concentration, and diet.

Benefits of Condensed Tannins in Forage Legumes Fed to Ruminants: Importance of Structure, Concentration, and Diet Composition

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