Livestock productivity plays a pivotal role in agricultural sustainability and food security. Enhancing this productivity, while minimizing negative environmental impacts and ensuring animal welfare, presents a complex challenge. Natural compounds derived from plants or other organic sources have garnered attention for their potential to enhance various aspects of livestock production. This collection delves into the influence of natural compounds on livestock productivity, with a specific focus on their roles in enhancing antioxidant levels, promoting gut health, mitigating greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), and controlling diseases. The utilization of natural compounds in livestock farming has sparked significant interest due to their potential to enhance productivity and address environmental and health concerns.
This Research Topic aims to collate cutting-edge information on a wide range of natural compounds and products suitable for use in livestock farming. These compounds may include microbial agents, herbal extracts, spices, organic materials, and other sources, each offering unique benefits such as improving productivity, antioxidant activity, gut health, managing gut microbiology, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and controlling diseases. One of the primary challenges tackled in this work is the development of effective strategies leveraging natural compounds and products to optimize livestock productivity while addressing key concerns. Recent research highlights that incorporating specific natural compounds into livestock feed can significantly enhance antioxidant levels, thereby improving animal health and resilience against oxidative stress. Furthermore, probiotics and prebiotics have emerged as valuable tools for enhancing gut health and nutrient absorption, contributing to the overall productivity and well-being of livestock. Moreover, innovative approaches utilizing natural compounds have shown promise in reducing methane emissions from livestock, thus playing a crucial role in mitigating their environmental impact.
Current trends in sustainable agriculture emphasize the diverse array of natural compounds and products available for livestock use. Despite variations in popularity, these compounds can prove highly effective, even on a localized scale. Disease control stands out as a critical aspect where natural compounds, such as plant-derived antimicrobials and immunomodulators, can offer sustainable alternatives to antibiotics, thus reducing the risk of antimicrobial resistance. This work encourages contributions from various types of studies, including original research, reviews, short communications, case studies, among others, to foster a comprehensive understanding of the potential of natural compounds in livestock farming.
The scope of this Research Topic encompasses various themes related to the utilization of natural compounds and products for enhancing livestock productivity while addressing critical concerns like antioxidant levels, gut health, greenhouse gas emissions, and disease control.
Contributors are urged to explore topics such as the identification and characterization of novel natural compounds with antioxidant properties and the mechanisms underlying their effects on gut health and immune function. Additionally, the impact of natural products on various livestock species, including poultry, swine, ruminants, rabbits, camels, and equines, on aspects such as antioxidant systems, disease control, gut physiology, gut microbiome, greenhouse gas mitigation, and nutraceutical properties, is of interest.
Manuscripts of interest include original research articles, reviews, meta-analyses, and perspectives that provide insights into the application, efficacy, and potential challenges associated with integrating natural compounds into livestock production systems to achieve desired outcomes in terms of productivity, sustainability, and animal welfare.
Keywords:
Natural Compounds, Natural Products, Greenhouse gas, Livestock, Antioxidant
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Livestock productivity plays a pivotal role in agricultural sustainability and food security. Enhancing this productivity, while minimizing negative environmental impacts and ensuring animal welfare, presents a complex challenge. Natural compounds derived from plants or other organic sources have garnered attention for their potential to enhance various aspects of livestock production. This collection delves into the influence of natural compounds on livestock productivity, with a specific focus on their roles in enhancing antioxidant levels, promoting gut health, mitigating greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), and controlling diseases. The utilization of natural compounds in livestock farming has sparked significant interest due to their potential to enhance productivity and address environmental and health concerns.
This Research Topic aims to collate cutting-edge information on a wide range of natural compounds and products suitable for use in livestock farming. These compounds may include microbial agents, herbal extracts, spices, organic materials, and other sources, each offering unique benefits such as improving productivity, antioxidant activity, gut health, managing gut microbiology, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and controlling diseases. One of the primary challenges tackled in this work is the development of effective strategies leveraging natural compounds and products to optimize livestock productivity while addressing key concerns. Recent research highlights that incorporating specific natural compounds into livestock feed can significantly enhance antioxidant levels, thereby improving animal health and resilience against oxidative stress. Furthermore, probiotics and prebiotics have emerged as valuable tools for enhancing gut health and nutrient absorption, contributing to the overall productivity and well-being of livestock. Moreover, innovative approaches utilizing natural compounds have shown promise in reducing methane emissions from livestock, thus playing a crucial role in mitigating their environmental impact.
Current trends in sustainable agriculture emphasize the diverse array of natural compounds and products available for livestock use. Despite variations in popularity, these compounds can prove highly effective, even on a localized scale. Disease control stands out as a critical aspect where natural compounds, such as plant-derived antimicrobials and immunomodulators, can offer sustainable alternatives to antibiotics, thus reducing the risk of antimicrobial resistance. This work encourages contributions from various types of studies, including original research, reviews, short communications, case studies, among others, to foster a comprehensive understanding of the potential of natural compounds in livestock farming.
The scope of this Research Topic encompasses various themes related to the utilization of natural compounds and products for enhancing livestock productivity while addressing critical concerns like antioxidant levels, gut health, greenhouse gas emissions, and disease control.
Contributors are urged to explore topics such as the identification and characterization of novel natural compounds with antioxidant properties and the mechanisms underlying their effects on gut health and immune function. Additionally, the impact of natural products on various livestock species, including poultry, swine, ruminants, rabbits, camels, and equines, on aspects such as antioxidant systems, disease control, gut physiology, gut microbiome, greenhouse gas mitigation, and nutraceutical properties, is of interest.
Manuscripts of interest include original research articles, reviews, meta-analyses, and perspectives that provide insights into the application, efficacy, and potential challenges associated with integrating natural compounds into livestock production systems to achieve desired outcomes in terms of productivity, sustainability, and animal welfare.
Keywords:
Natural Compounds, Natural Products, Greenhouse gas, Livestock, Antioxidant
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.