Toxic plants from the perspective of a "Quilombola" community in the Cerrado region of Brazil.

Autor: de Castro Santos Paim R; Department of Veterinary Medicine, Escola de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Avenida Esperança, s/n, Campus Samambaia, Goiânia, Goiás, 74690-900, Brazil., Ferreira de Paula LG; Department of Veterinary Medicine, Escola de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Avenida Esperança, s/n, Campus Samambaia, Goiânia, Goiás, 74690-900, Brazil., Soares DM; Department of Veterinary Medicine, Escola de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Avenida Esperança, s/n, Campus Samambaia, Goiânia, Goiás, 74690-900, Brazil., Gonçalves Rocha TF; Department of Veterinary Medicine, Escola de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Avenida Esperança, s/n, Campus Samambaia, Goiânia, Goiás, 74690-900, Brazil., Ribeiro AL; Department of Veterinary Medicine, Escola de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Avenida Esperança, s/n, Campus Samambaia, Goiânia, Goiás, 74690-900, Brazil., Barros N; Image Processing and GIS Laboratory (LAPIG), Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Goiânia, 74001-970, GO, Brazil., Carrião Dos Santos F; Department of Animal Production, Instituto Federal Goiano, Campus Urutaí, Rod. Geraldo Silva Nascimento, Km-2,5 - Zona Rural, Urutaí, Goiás, 75790-000, Brazil., Ferreira HD; Department of Botany, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Campus II, Goiânia, Goiás, 74001-970, Brazil., Gomes-Klein VL; Department of Botany, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Campus II, Goiânia, Goiás, 74001-970, Brazil., Soto-Blanco B; Department of Veterinary Clinics and Surgery, Escola de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil., Paes de Oliveira-Filho J; Veterinary Clinic Department, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Campus de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual de São Paulo, Botucatu, SP, Brazil., Jorge da Cunha PH; Department of Veterinary Medicine, Escola de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Avenida Esperança, s/n, Campus Samambaia, Goiânia, Goiás, 74690-900, Brazil., Riet-Correa F; Postgraduate Program on Animal Science in the Tropics, Federal University of Bahia, Av. Adhemar de Barros 500, Ondina, Salvador, BA, 40170-110, Brazil., Pfister J; Poisonous Plant Research Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1150 E. 1400 N., Logan, UT, 84341, United States., Cook D; Poisonous Plant Research Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1150 E. 1400 N., Logan, UT, 84341, United States., Soares Fioravanti MC; Department of Veterinary Medicine, Escola de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Avenida Esperança, s/n, Campus Samambaia, Goiânia, Goiás, 74690-900, Brazil., Machado Botelho AF; Department of Veterinary Medicine, Escola de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Avenida Esperança, s/n, Campus Samambaia, Goiânia, Goiás, 74690-900, Brazil. Electronic address: anafmb@ufg.br.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology [Toxicon] 2023 Mar 01; Vol. 224, pp. 107028. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jan 18.
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2023.107028
Abstrakt: A multi-disciplinary team surveyed ranchers at the Kalunga Historical and Cultural Heritage Site, in the Cerrado region of west central Brazil, to determine impacts promoted by toxic plants on cattle. The expedition to the Kalunga region was carried out by Brazilian and American researchers. Previously selected cattle ranch properties from "Vão das Almas", "Engenho II" and "Vão do Moleque" were visited. Twenty-four interviews were carried out with cattle ranchers and a questionnaire was applied to obtain information about outbreaks of native plant poisoning and their effects on livestock, and the use of local plants in phytotherapy. We classified problematic plants into three distinct categories. First, the toxic plants most cited by residents causing cattle losses were the flowers of Caryocar brasiliense Cambess ("pequi"), the fruits of Terminalia corrugata (Ducke) Gere & Boatwr. (Buchenavia tomentosa Eichler - "mirindiba" or "pau-pilão"), Eugenia dysenterica (Mart.) DC ("cagaita"), and Palicourea marcgravii A. St. Hil ("erva-café" or "cafezinho"). Secondly, other plants considered toxic, but causing less severe losses were Emmotum nitens (Benth.) Miers ("casco d'anta"), Indigofera lespedezioides (Kunth) ("timbozinho"), Ricinus communis L. ("mamona"), Pteridium esculentum (G. Forst.) Cockayne ("samambaia"), Stryphnodendron adstringens (Mart.) Coville ("barbatimão"), and Actinocladum verticillatum (Nees) McClure ex Soderstr. ("cambaúba"). The most important finding was the identification of the C. brasiliense flower as potentially toxic to cattle, which must be subject for future research. Further, we confirmed the toxicity and importance of P. marcgravii, E. dysenterica, and Terminalia corrugata. The survey highlighted phytotherapy plants used by the community, and greatly increased awareness by local livestock producers of poisonous plants for management purposes. We conclude that ethnobotanical knowledge, especially from the traditional community, is essential to understand livestock losses to toxic plants, and should be valued not only for reducing livestock losses, but also for cultural importance to the Kalunga communities in the Cerrado.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: Prof Franklin Riet-Correa, co-author of our manuscript is a member of the Editorial Council of Toxicon. The project was approved by the Research Ethics Committee (CEP) of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG), under registration number 3,438,019 and the permission to access genetic heritage (CTA) was registered in the Heritage SisGen under access code A8E13C7.
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