Mineral nutrition of livestock.

Chapter 19 (Page no: 516)

Predicting mineral responses.

This chapter bridges the gaps in knowledge that complicate assessments of mineral deprivation and the extent to which they limit livestock production. The uncertainties for most minerals both major and trace elements that were given emphasis are: effective supply (i.e. amount of mineral ingested, absorbed and utilizable); minimal demand (unavoidable mineral losses at zero balance); rates of mobilization of body stores after abrupt changes in supply and demand; rate-limiting metabolic pathways, when stores have been exhausted; and correlations of biochemical and genomic criteria with rate-limiting pathways.

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