Biological Functions of Duckweed and Its Application in Livestock and Poultry Production
Chinese livestock and poultry breeding industry is facing huge challenges such as high protein feed costs and shortage of domestic protein feed resources,thus finding new unconventional protein feed resources is an important task for the current breeding industry.Duckweed is a floating plant with high yield,wide source and high protein content.Duckweed has many biological functions such as promoting growth,antioxidant,an-ti-inflammatory and antibacterial,which had broad application prospects in animal husbandry production.This paper summarized the general situation,biological functions of duckweed and its application effects in livestock and poultry production,which aimed to provide the reference for the in-depth research,application and promo-tion of duckweed in livestock and poultry production.[Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition,2024,36(4):2199-2207]
duckweedbiological functionlivestock and poultry production