As alternative to antibiotics, fish nutritionists are exploring potential candidates to boost immune system of test animals and better prepare them to withstand opportunistic pathogens. Phytobiotics are increasingly being tested and the results are a mixed grill of success stories and not so successful ones.
In the tropics where many plants seem to have been recommended, which ones seem promising, which, when added in the diet, culture water for fish or administered to fish any other way, would be expected to produced effects?
Maybe the following papers will help you:
1. V. Cristea, Alina Antache , Iulia Grecu , Angela Docan ,THE USE OF PHYTOBIOTICS IN AQUACULTURE
2. Lucrări Ştiinţifice - Seria Zootehnie, vol. 57;2012
3. Muhammed A.ArowoloJianhuaHe.Use of probiotics and botanical extracts to improve ruminant production in the tropics. Animal Nutrition. 23 May 2018
4. Chengbo Yang, M.A. Kabir Chowdhury, Yongqing Hou and Joshua Gong .Phytogenic Compounds as Alternatives to In-Feed Antibiotics: Potentials and Challenges in Application. Pathogens 2015, 4, 137-156; doi:10.3390/pathogens4010137
Phytobiotics are commonly defined as plant-derived compounds incorporated into diets to improve the animal productivity through enhancement of feed.as they possess antioxidant, antistressor, immunoenhancer etc.
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Dr. Kamath Madhusudhana
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