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The role of plant secondary metabolites in mammalian herbivory: ecological perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2007

Glenn Iason
Glenn Iason
Affiliation:
Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, UK
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Plant secondary metabolites (PSM) have many ecological functions, but have long been considered as defences against pathogens or herbivores (vertebrate or invertebrate), reducing the likelihood and extent of attack. However, mammalian herbivores ingest many foods containing PSM and use both behavioural methods and physiological strategies to limit their negative effects. Most physiological counter-adaptations are inducible in response to ingested PSM, providing efficient protection against toxic effects. Possible positive effects of PSM include antioxidant and anthelminthic properties and complex formation between protein and condensed tannins that protects dietary protein from degradation by the symbiotic microflora of foregut fermenters, increasing its utilisation by the animal. This protein effect is probably only beneficial to animals under a narrow range of nutrient-rich conditions found mainly in agricultural systems. There are many examples of PSM causing food avoidance or reducing food intake, but there is as yet relatively little evidence for positive selection of them by herbivores. Although the feedback mechanisms relating the post-ingestive consequences of PSM to subsequent foraging behaviour are beginning to be understood, knowledge of the integration of behavioural and physiological strategies for regulating the effects of PSM is relatively poor. The opportunities for learned avoidance of PSM may be restricted in animals with complex diets that cannot associate a particular feedback signal with a given food type. A greater emphasis on the study of subclinical effects of PSM rather than acute effects, on pharmaco-kinetic studies in relation to behavioural studies and on the use of realistic experimental models is advocated.

Keywords

Plant secondary metabolitesToxic effectsCounter-adaptationForaging behaviour
Type
Symposium on ‘Plants as animal foods: a case of catch 22?’
Information
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 64 , Issue 1 , February 2005 , pp. 123 - 131
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 2005

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