Evaluation of Agave lechuguilla by‐product crude extract as a feed additive for juvenile shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei

Agave lechuguilla is a succulent plant species, mainly distributed in the northeast of Mexico and south of the United States of America. The main use for this plant is the fibre´s extraction (known as Tampico fibres), resulting in 15% of fibres and 85% of a by‐product waste named guishe. The lechugu...

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Published in:	Aquaculture research Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 1336 - 1345
Main Authors:	Peña‐Rodríguez, Alberto, Pelletier‐Morreeuw, Zoé, García‐Luján, Jazmín, Rodríguez‐Jaramillo, María del Carmen, Guzmán‐Villanueva, Laura, Escobedo‐Fregoso, Cristina, Tovar‐Ramírez, Dariel, Reyes, Ana Gisela
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford Hindawi Limited 01-04-2020
Subjects:	Agave lechuguilla animal feed additive Chemical analysis Contamination Decapoda Diet Enzymatic activity Enzyme activity Epithelium Feed additives Feeds Fibers Flavonoids Food additives Haemolymph Hemolymph Hepatopancreas Hexose High-performance liquid chromatography HPLC Liquid chromatography Litopenaeus vannamei Nutritional status Performance evaluation Plant extracts Quercetin Saponins shrimp growth Shrimps Sugar
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Summary:	Agave lechuguilla is a succulent plant species, mainly distributed in the northeast of Mexico and south of the United States of America. The main use for this plant is the fibre´s extraction (known as Tampico fibres), resulting in 15% of fibres and 85% of a by‐product waste named guishe. The lechuguilla collectors, normally incinerate the guishe, thus causing environmental contamination. Interestingly, recent studies showed that guishe contains molecules with nutritional properties, such as saponins, flavonoids and sugars. Therefore, in this work, we evaluated the effect of the crude extract of guishe as a feed additive in whiteleg shrimp diets. According to that, MS‐HPLC analysis of the extract showed the presence of saponins such as diosgenin, smilagenin, hecogenin, manogenin, tigogenin hexose, yucagenin, chlorogenin, diosgenin diglucoside and the flavonol, quercetin. After chemical analysis, the crude extract was included into an experimental diet in four levels; 0% (L0%), 0.1% (L0.1%), 0.3% (L0.3%) and 0.6% (L0.6%). Dietary incorporation of the extract was evaluated by zootechnical performance, haemolymph biochemistry, histomorphology and digestive enzyme activity of shrimps. After 5‐week feeding, the L0.3% diet showed significantly higher growth and better feed utilization among treatments. A significant increase in tubule epithelium height and tubule coverage area from hepatopancreas in shrimp under L0.3% diet compared with the control diet suggest an improvement of the health and nutritional status of the shrimp. Inclusion of L0.3% and L0.6% of the crude extract resulted in a reduction in amylase activity, without effect in glucose levels in the haemolymph. Thus, we suggest that lechuguilla guishe crude extract contains nutritional molecules that may be used as a feed additive to promote shrimp productivity.
ISSN:	1355-557X 1365-2109
DOI:	10.1111/are.14497