ReviewFrontiers in veterinary science2016
Impacts of Cereal Ergot in Food Animal Production.
Review in Frontiers in veterinary science, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.
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- Effect of processing method of hybrid rye grain on growth performance, dietary net energy utilization, and carcass characteristics of yearling beef steers fed a finishing diet.Translational animal science · 2025Article
- Hybrid rye grain inclusion strategies as a replacement for corn grain in finishing cattle diets: effects on growth performance and carcass characteristics.Translational animal science · 2025Article
- High deoxynivalenol and ergot alkaloid levels in wheat grain: effects on growth performance, carcass traits, rumen fermentation, and blood parameters of feedlot cattle.Mycotoxin research · 2024Article
- Climate Effects on Ergot and Ergot Alkaloids Occurrence in Italian Wheat.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The C-8-S-isomers of ergot alkaloids - a review of biological and analytical aspects.Mycotoxin research · 2024Review
- Effect of continuous or intermittent feeding of ergot contaminated grain in a mash or pelleted form on the performance and health of feedlot beef steers.Journal of animal science · 2024Article
- Lactation-related dynamics of bacterial and fungal microbiomes in feces of sows and gut colonization in suckling and newly weaned piglets.Journal of animal science · 2024Article
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- Production and use of dry-rolled hybrid rye grain as a replacement for barley grain on growth performance and carcass quality of feedlot steers.Translational animal science · 2024Article
- Nutritional guide to feeding wheat and wheat co-products to swine: a review.Translational animal science · 2024Article
- Occurrence of Ergot Alkaloids in Major and Minor Cereals from Northern Italy: A Three Harvesting Years Scenario.Journal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2023Article
- Investigation of Spectroscopic Peculiarities of Ergot-Infected Winter Wheat Grains.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Effect of increasing concentration of ergot alkaloids in the diet of feedlot cattle: performance, welfare, and health parameters.Journal of animal science · 2023Article
- Effect of ergot alkaloids and a mycotoxin deactivating product on in vitro ruminal fermentation using the Rumen simulation technique (RUSITEC).Journal of animal science · 2022Article
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The negative impacts of ergot contamination of grain on the health of humans and animals were first documented during the fifth century AD. Although ergotism is now rare in humans, cleaning contaminated grain concentrates ergot bodies in screenings which are used as livestock feed. Ergot is found worldwide, with even low concentrations of alkaloids in the diet (<100 ppb total), reducing the growth efficiency of livestock. Extended periods of increased moisture and cold during flowering promote the development of ergot in cereal crops. Furthermore, the unpredictability of climate change may have detrimental impacts to important cereal crops, such as wheat, barley, and rye, favoring ergot production. Allowable limits for ergot in livestock feed are confusing as they may be determined by proportions of ergot bodies or by total levels of alkaloids, measurements that may differ widely in their estimation of toxicity. The proportion of individual alkaloids, including ergotamine, ergocristine, ergosine, ergocornine, and ergocryptine is extremely variable within ergot bodies and the relative toxicity of these alkaloids has yet to be determined. This raises concerns that current recommendations on safe levels of ergot in feeds may be unreliable. Furthermore, the total ergot alkaloid content is greatly dependent on the geographic region, harvest year, cereal species, variety, and genotype. Considerable animal-to-animal variation in the ability of the liver to detoxify ergot alkaloids also exists and the impacts of factors, such as pelleting of feeds or use of binders to reduce bioavailability of alkaloids require study. Accordingly, unknowns greatly outnumber the knowns for cereal ergot and further study to help better define allowable limits for livestock would be welcome.
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