Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2021, Vol. 52 ›› Issue (5): 1171-1185.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2021.05.004

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Advances in Research on Poisonous Plants and Grazing Livestock Poisoning Diseases of Natural Grassland in China

GUO Rong, GUO Yazhou, WANG Shuai, YANG Chen, SU Yongxia, WU Chenchen, LU Hao, ZHAO Baoyu*   

  1. College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Institute of Poisonous Plants in West China, Yangling 712100, China
  • Received:2020-10-06 Online:2021-05-23 Published:2021-05-22

Abstract: China has the world’s largest grassland resources. As the largest terrestrial ecosystem and the important green ecological barrier, natural grassland has lots of ecological functions. At the same time, it is also an important base for the development of animal husbandry and the most basic means of production and living for herdsmen. For a long time, people only paid attention to the productive function of grassland, while ignoring the protection of its ecosystem. As a result, it leads to degeneration of grassland production, decline of ecological service functions, and has further caused frequent occurrences of poisonous plants and other biological disasters, the decrease of forage species and yield, the imbalance of biodiversity and the deterioration of ecological environment. In this paper, the species and distribution of poisonous plants in natural grassland were briefly summarized, and then the economic losses and harms to natural grassland and animal husbandry caused by poisonous plants were introduced. This article gives an important overview of the research progress in toxicology and poisoning diseases of six main poisonous plants including locoweed, Aconitum, Ligularia, Stellera chamaejasme, Achnatherum inebrians and Ageratina adenophora and their prevention and control techniques, also gives several suggestions, aiming to provide theoretical guidance for the comprehensive prevention and control of toxic plants poisoning diseases and healthy breeding of grazing livestock in grassland pastoral areas.

Key words: poisonous plants, grazing livestock, poisoning disease, prevention and treatment techniques, natural grassland, China

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