Toxic plants from the perspective of a “Quilombola” community in the Cerrado region of Brazil

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dc.contributor.authorde Castro Santos Paim, Ricardo
dc.contributor.authorFerreira de Paula, Luiza Gabriella
dc.contributor.authorSoares, Débora Moreira
dc.contributor.authorGonçalves Rocha, Tarik Fernandes
dc.contributor.authorRibeiro, Amanda Lopes
dc.contributor.authorBarros, Natália
dc.contributor.authorCarrião dos Santos, Fabrício
dc.contributor.authorFerreira, Heleno Dias
dc.contributor.authorGomes-Klein, Vera Lúcia
dc.contributor.authorSoto-Blanco, Benito
dc.contributor.authorPaes de Oliveira-Filho, José [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorJorge da Cunha, Paulo Henrique
dc.contributor.authorRiet-Correa, Franklin
dc.contributor.authorPfister, James
dc.contributor.authorCook, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorSoares Fioravanti, Maria Clorinda
dc.contributor.authorMachado Botelho, Ana Flávia
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)
dc.contributor.institutionInstituto Federal Goiano
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)
dc.contributor.institutionU.S. Department of Agriculture
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-29T13:38:18Z
dc.date.available2023-07-29T13:38:18Z
dc.date.issued2023-03-01
dc.description.abstractA 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.en
dc.description.affiliationDepartment of Veterinary Medicine Escola de Veterinária e Zootecnia Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Avenida Esperança, s/n, Campus Samambaia
dc.description.affiliationImage Processing and GIS Laboratory (LAPIG) Federal University of Goiás (UFG), GO
dc.description.affiliationDepartment of Animal Production Instituto Federal Goiano Campus Urutaí, Rod. Geraldo Silva Nascimento, Km-2,5 - Zona Rural, Urutaí
dc.description.affiliationDepartment of Botany Instituto de Ciências Biológicas Universidade Federal de Goiás Campus II, Goiás
dc.description.affiliationDepartment of Veterinary Clinics and Surgery Escola de Veterinária Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), MG
dc.description.affiliationVeterinary Clinic Department Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia Universidade Estadual de São Paulo, Campus de Botucatu
dc.description.affiliationPostgraduate Program on Animal Science in the Tropics Federal University of Bahia, Av. Adhemar de Barros 500, Ondina
dc.description.affiliationPoisonous Plant Research Laboratory Agricultural Research Service U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1150 E. 1400 N.
dc.description.affiliationUnespVeterinary Clinic Department Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia Universidade Estadual de São Paulo, Campus de Botucatu
dc.description.sponsorshipCoordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
dc.description.sponsorshipFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Goiás
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversidade Federal de Goiás
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2023.107028
dc.identifier.citationToxicon, v. 224.
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.toxicon.2023.107028
dc.identifier.issn1879-3150
dc.identifier.issn0041-0101
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85146607997
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/248234
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofToxicon
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectAutochthone cattle
dc.subjectKalunga
dc.subjectNative plants
dc.subjectPoisoning
dc.subjectQuilombo
dc.titleToxic plants from the perspective of a “Quilombola” community in the Cerrado region of Brazilen
dc.typeArtigo
unesp.author.orcid0000-0001-5204-0512[17]

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