Tropical beef cattle growth performance and meat quality in response to backgrounding on Desmanthus spp. pastures
Mwangi, Felista Waithira (2022) Tropical beef cattle growth performance and meat quality in response to backgrounding on Desmanthus spp. pastures. PhD thesis, James Cook University.
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Abstract
Felista Mwangi investigated the effect of supplementing tropical beef cattle with desmanthus on performance and meat quality. She found that desmanthus can maintain animal weight gain and plasma metabolite profile without negatively affecting carcass traits and meat quality. Additionally, she identified genetic markers in lipogenic genes for carcass and meat quality improvement. Beef cattle producers are using the results of her study.
| Item ID: | 81407 |
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| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
| Keywords: | tropical beef cattle, desmanthus, animal weight gain, plasma metabolite profile, meat quality, carcass traits, genetic markers in lipogenic genes |
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| Copyright Information: | Copyright © 2022 Felista Waithira Mwangi |
| Additional Information: | Seven publications arising from this thesis are stored in ResearchOnline@JCU, at the time of processing. Please see the Related URLs. The publications are: Mwangi, Felista W., Suybeng, Benedicte, Gardiner, Christopher P., Kinobe, Robert, Charmley, Edward, Malau-Aduli, Bunmi S., and Malau-Aduli, Aduli E.O. (2022) Effect of incremental proportions of Desmanthus spp. in isonitrogenous forage diets on growth performance, rumen fermentation and plasma metabolites of pen-fed growing Brahman, Charbray and Droughtmaster crossbred beef steers. PLoS ONE, 17 (1). e0260918 Mwangi, Felista W., Charmley, Edward, Adegboye, Oyelola A., Gardiner, Christopher P., Malau-Aduli, Bunmi S., Kinobe, Robert T., and Malau-Aduli, Aduli E.O. (2022) Chemical composition and in situ degradability of Desmanthus spp. forage harvested at different maturity stages. Fermentation, 8 (8). 377 Mwangi, Felista W., Pewan, Shedrach B., Otto, John R., Adegboye, Oyelola A., Charmley, Edward, Gardiner, Christopher P., Malau-Aduli, Bunmi S., Kinobe, Robert T., and Malau-Aduli, Aduli E.O. (2022) Towards sustainable sources of omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in Northern Australian tropical crossbred beef steers through single nucleotide polymorphisms in lipogenic genes for meat eating quality. Sustainability, 14 (14). 8409 Mwangi, Felista W., Pewan, Shedrach B., Otto, John R., Adegboye, Oyelola A., Charmley, Edward, Gardiner, Christopher P., Malau-Aduli, Bunmi S., Kinobe, Robert T., and Malau-Aduli, Aduli E.O. (2022) Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the fatty acid binding protein 4, fatty acid synthase and stearoyl-CoA desaturase genes influence carcass characteristics of tropical crossbred beef steers. Agriculture, 12 (8). 1171 Mwangi, Felista W., Blignaut, David J.C., Charmley, Edward, Gardiner, Christopher P., Malau-Aduli, Bunmi S., Kinobe, Robert T., and Malau-Aduli, Aduli E.O. (2021) Lipid metabolism, carcass characteristics and Longissimus dorsi muscle fatty acid composition of tropical crossbred beef cattle in response to Desmanthus spp. forage backgrounding. Metabolites, 11 (12). 804 Mwangi, Felista W., Gardiner, Christopher P., Walker, Glen, Hall, Trevor J., Malau-Aduli, Bunmi S., Kinobe, Robert T., and Malau-Aduli, Aduli E.O. (2021) Growth performance and plasma metabolites of grazing beef cattle backgrounded on Buffel or Buffel-Desmanthus mixed pastures. Animals, 11 (8). 2355 Mwangi, Felista W., Charmley, Edward, Gardiner, Christopher P., Malau-Aduli, Bunmi S., Kinobe, Robert T., and Malau-Aduli, Aduli E.O. (2019) Diet and genetics influence beef cattle performance and meat quality characteristics. Foods, 8 (12). 648 |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jan 2024 02:54 |
| FoR Codes: | 30 AGRICULTURAL, VETERINARY AND FOOD SCIENCES > 3003 Animal production > 300303 Animal nutrition @ 50% 30 AGRICULTURAL, VETERINARY AND FOOD SCIENCES > 3003 Animal production > 300301 Animal growth and development @ 50% |
| SEO Codes: | 10 ANIMAL PRODUCTION AND ANIMAL PRIMARY PRODUCTS > 1004 Livestock raising > 100401 Beef cattle @ 100% |
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