Chemical and Nutritional Variability of Cactus Pear Cladodes, Genera Opuntia and Nopalea

Alves, Francisco Abel Lemos; Andrade, Alberício Pereira de; Bruno, Riselane de Lucena Alcântara; Santos, Djalma Cordeiro dos; Magalhães, André Luíz Rodrigues; Silva, Divan Soares da

doi:10.3923/ajft.2017.25.34

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“…The high efficiency in water use helps to solve shortage issues, reduce conflicts between users, increase stability and guarantee the production, especially in regions where there is occurrence of droughts or rainfall distribution is irregular. Thus, the high efficiency in the use of water by forage cactus compared to other plants makes it a widely cultivated species in arid and semiarid regions for various productive purposes (FAGGION et al, 2009;ALVES et al, 2017). CO 2int.…”

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Photosynthesis and gas exchanges of forage cactus varieties (Opuntia and Nopalea) grown under screen and irrigation

Alves

Santos

Silva

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Pesqui. Agropecu. Pernamb.

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“…Most soils are shallow, with low water storage capacity, low pH (acidic) values, insufficient drainage, and salinized in some places, besides low availability of some essential nutrients for plant growth and development. All of these characteristics limit the cultivation of some plant species (ALVES et al, 2017).…”

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Photosynthesis and gas exchanges of forage cactus varieties (Opuntia and Nopalea) grown under screen and irrigation

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“…The final dry matter was the only variable of forage quality that showed a significant difference between clones. There are many factors that affect the chemical composition of the forage cactus, including climate conditions, time of cultivation, age, variety, species and order of cladodes (Alves et al 2017;Hernández-Urbiola et al 2011). The values found for final dry matter in the MIU (9.51%), OEM (8.65%) and IPA (7.65% DM) clones are considered low when compared to those reported in other studies, but conducted under rainfed conditions (Piños-Rodrigues et al 2010).…”

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“…Araújo Júnior et al the crop. These species are usually grown under rain-fed conditions, as they are well-adapted to water deficit (Alves et al 2017;Barbosa et al 2018). However, critical water regimes can cause changes in the growth and development of the cactus, which affects the production and nutritional value of the forage, but depend on the type of clone (Silva et al 2015a;Lima et al 2018).…”

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Productivity, bromatological composition and economic benefits of using irrigation in the forage cactus under regulated deficit irrigation in a semiarid environment

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The use of irrigation can improve the productivity and nutritional quality of the forage cactus in environments with a water deficit, resulting in profit to the producer. The productive performance, bromatological composition and economic benefits of using irrigation were investigated in this study with forage cactus clones regulated deficit irrigation (RDI). The study was conducted in an experimental design of randomised blocks, in a factorial scheme with subdivided plots. The plots consisted of water regimes based on the crop evapotranspiration (ETc) (rainfed, 40, 80 and 120% ETc). The cactus clones ['Miúda' (MIU), 'Orelha de Elefante Mexicana' (OEM) and 'IPA Sertânia' (IPA)] comprised the subplots. The total number of cladodes per plant, the fresh and dry matter yields and the bromatological composition were evaluated. Economic viability was assessed using the net revenue and benefit to cost ratio (BCR). The irrigation depths did not increase the yield of the clones. The OEM clone showed 276 and 343% greater fresh and dry matter production, respectively, when compared to the IPA clone; however, when compared with the MIU clone, it was 63%, both on a fresh and dry matter production. The water regimes had no effect on the nutritional quality of the cactus. Only IPA showed no profit during the first cycle (BCR < 1). It can be concluded that planting one irrigated hectare with the OEM and MIU clones offer economic returns starting from the first production cycle (18 months).

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“…The determination of the minerals, fractions of carbohydrates and proteins and the kinetic parameters of ruminal degradation is of utmost importance for nutritionists (Kalegowda et al, 2015;Alves et al, 2017). This information can be used in modern feed formulations for ruminants to maximize the synchronization of degradation of carbohydrates and nitrogen compounds, minimizing energy and nitrogen losses due to ruminal fermentation and promoting a greater efficiency of microbial synthesis (Boufennara et al, 2016;Santos et al, 2019).…”

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Chemical and Mineral Composition, Kinetics of Degradation and in vitro Gas Production of Native Cactus

Magalhães

Teodoro

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This study aimed to evaluate the chemical and minerals composition, fractions of carbohydrate and nitrogen compounds, kinetics of degradation and in vitro gas production of native cactus species of the brazilian Semiarid. The experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design, with five native cactus species and 4 replications per species were randomly selected. The native cactus species evaluated were: Cereus jamacaru DC., Melocactus bahiensis Br. Et Rose Werderm, Opuntia inamoene K. Schum, Pilosocereus gounellei (A. Weber ex K. Schum) Bly ex Rowl and Pilosocereus pachycladus Ritter, all in natura. The native cactus species showed differences for chemical and mineral compositions (P <0.05). The nitrogenous components, C. jamacaru cactaceae presented higher contents of fractions A (228.1 g/kg CP) and B3 (241.7 g/kg CP) and smaller fraction C (174.0 g/kg CP). For carbohydrate fraction C. jamacaru presented lower fractions A + B1 (412.2 g/kg TC) and C (38.2 g/kg TC) and high fraction B2 (549.7 g/kg TC) and low fraction C. The cactus C. jamacaru and M. bahiensis presented a high PD (856.6 and 837.9 g/kg DM, respectively). The parameters a and b and the effective degradability present diferences (P<0.05) in function of 2% and 5% passage rate. The in vitro true digestibility of dry matter was above 700 g/kg of DM for all species. Cactus have high levels of potentially digestible fractions of total carbohydrates, indicating their importance as food for ruminants in created in the semiarid, where Caatinga vegetation is a basal resource.

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Chemical and Nutritional Variability of Cactus Pear Cladodes, Genera Opuntia and Nopalea

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Photosynthesis and gas exchanges of forage cactus varieties (Opuntia and Nopalea) grown under screen and irrigation

Photosynthesis and gas exchanges of forage cactus varieties (Opuntia and Nopalea) grown under screen and irrigation

Productivity, bromatological composition and economic benefits of using irrigation in the forage cactus under regulated deficit irrigation in a semiarid environment

Chemical and Mineral Composition, Kinetics of Degradation and in vitro Gas Production of Native Cactus

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