Phytase enzyme in diets containing defatted rice bran for growing swine

Scientia Agricola

José Aparecido Moreira²  Dorinha Miriam Silber Schmidt Vitti²  Messias Alves Da Trindade Neto¹  João Batista Lopes¹ 

[1] ,Universidade de São Paulo Centro de Energia Nuclear da Agricultura Laboratório de Nutrição AnimalPiracicaba SP ,Brasil

关键词: environmental pollution;    nutrition;    performance;    phosphorus;    phytate;    poluição ambiental;    nutrição;    desempenho;    fósforo;    fitato;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0103-90162003000400004

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Organic phosphorus is poorly utilized by monogastric animals because they lack phytase, the enzyme that cleaves the ortho-phosphate groups from the phytate molecule. Diets fed to pigs are supplemented with inorganic P, and this can increase environmental pollution and diet costs. Sixty mixed sex, half-breed pigs, were used to evaluate the effect of increasing dietary levels of phytase (253, 759, 1265 and 1748 PU kg-1 feed) on animal performance as compared to a control without phytase but supplemented with dicalcium phosphate. Enzyme levels did not affect daily feed intake, food conversion, average daily weight gain, plasma P and Ca, calcium and phosphorus in bone ash, and the calcium/phosphorus ratio in the plasma and bones. A quadratic relationship between phytase levels and the percentages of P and Ca in bone ash was observed, reaching a maximum at the 880 and 879 PU levels, respectively. Animals fed diets containing phytase presented low plasma P values when compared to the control, but no effects were observed for the regression analysis. Using 759 PU phytase in rations containing corn, soybean bran and defatted rice bran for growing pigs can eliminate the use of traditional sources of P.

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