{"id":4641,"date":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/export.maxmaziy.php.nixsolutions.com\/?p=4641"},"modified":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","slug":"a-microbe-that-will-dramatically-reduce-the-effect-of-don-mycotoxin-on-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/a-microbe-that-will-dramatically-reduce-the-effect-of-don-mycotoxin-on-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"A Microbe that will dramatically reduce the effect of DON Mycotoxin on pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deoxynivalenol (DON) is a mycotoxin which can<br \/>\noccur when grains, such as corn, wheat and barley,<br \/>\nare infected with a fungus called fusarium. For swine, its<br \/>\npresence can result in feed refusals and the reduction of<br \/>\nweight gains. An animal trial conducted last year by researchers with<br \/>\nAgriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and the University<br \/>\nof Guelph proved that a microbe normally found in a chicken\u2019s<br \/>\ngut will dramatically reduce the effect of DON on pigs.<br \/>\nThe microbe is capable of transforming DON to a much less<br \/>\ntoxic product.This year\u2019s work will involve isolating the enzyme within<br \/>\nthe microbe that is responsible for the transforming effect and researchers are in the final stages of<br \/>\ndoing just that. Ting Zhou, an AAFC research scientist involved in the<br \/>\nproject explains that an enzyme is a more stable element than a living microbe. Production and delivery of it<br \/>\nto the animals is also easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deoxynivalenol (DON) is a mycotoxin which can occur when grains, such as corn, wheat and barley, are infected with a fungus called fusarium. For swine, its presence can result in feed refusals and the reduction of weight gains. An animal trial conducted last year by researchers with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and the University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[8882,640,10033,5215,60,4663,1443,6904,46,5203,4362,20007,269,26380,13370,4662,2891,14,33,16262,473,17743,27282,13636,14980,35,20911,9717,24994,1301,934,2481],"class_list":["post-4641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production","tag-al","tag-animal","tag-arc","tag-deoxynivalenol","tag-disease","tag-don","tag-enzyme","tag-fee","tag-feed","tag-fusarium","tag-gene","tag-gh","tag-heat","tag-infec","tag-ken","tag-microbe","tag-mycotoxin","tag-pig","tag-pigs","tag-pl","tag-prevention","tag-prod","tag-production","tag-project","tag-search","tag-swine","tag-t","tag-ting-zhou-aafc","tag-usa","tag-weight","tag-wheat","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}