Dietary Phytochemicals and Microbes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. An Overview of Antimicrobial Properties of Different Classes of Phytochemicals

   • Amlan Kumar Patra

   Pages 1-32

3. Antimicrobial Properties of Flavonoids

   • Luisa Pistelli, Irene Giorgi

   Pages 33-91

4. Antiviral Properties of Phytochemicals

   • Ai-Lin Liu, Guan-Hua Du

   Pages 93-126

5. Antimicrobial Properties of Organosulfur Compounds

   • Osman Sagdic, Fatih Tornuk

   Pages 127-156

6. Antimicrobial Activities of Essential Oils

   • Danuta Kalemba, Martyna Matla, Anna Smętek

   Pages 157-183

7. Phytochemicals Against Drug-Resistant Microbes

   • Manuel Simões, Madalena Lemos, Lúcia C. Simões

   Pages 185-205

8. Phytochemicals as Anti-microbial Food Preservatives

   • Mehrdad Tajkarimi, Salam A. Ibrahim

   Pages 207-235

9. Dietary Tannins on Microbial Ecology of the Gastrointestinal Tract in Ruminants

   • Amlan Kumar Patra, Byeng-Ryel Min, Jyotisna Saxena

   Pages 237-262

10. Manipulating Ruminal Biohydrogenation by the Use of Plants Bioactive Compounds

    • Valentina Vasta, Rui J. B. Bessa

    Pages 263-284

11. Essentials Oils and Rumen Microbial Populations

    • Malgorzata Szumacher-Strabel, Adam Cieślak

    Pages 285-309

12. Saponins: Effects on Rumen Microbial Ecosystem and Metabolism in the Rumen

    • Elizabeth Wina

    Pages 311-350

13. Effect of Plant Secondary Metabolites on Rumen Methanogens and Methane Emissions by Ruminants

    • Devki Nandan Kamra, Mahesh Pawar, Beddyuti Singh

    Pages 351-370

14. Phytochemicals and Gut Microbial Populations in Non-ruminants

    • Artabandhu Sahoo, Nira Manik Soren

    Pages 371-389

15. Back Matter

    Pages 391-400

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Humans have utilized the bioactive principles of different plants for various beneficial physiological properties including antimicrobial properties for many centuries. However, interests of using medicinal plants declined in the 20th century with the availability of effective synthetic antimicrobial drugs. The development of microbial resistance to various drugs has accelerated research interests towards the use of phytochemicals as alternatives to synthetic drugs in the recent years. This book presents an comprehensive reviews on the antimicrobial and antiviral properties of numerous recently reported phytochemicals, and their mechanisms of antimicrobial actions. Some of the chapters have critically discussed the beneficial and adverse effects of antibacterial, and stimulatory activities of dietary phytochemicals on rumen microbial populations, and gut microbial populations of humans and animals. Microbial adaptation and resistance of microbes to phytochemicals has also been highlighted. On the applied apects, the use of phytochemicals against drug resistance microbes, to treat microbial diseases, for food preservation, to inhibit methanogenic archaea in the rumen, and to modulate lipid biohydrogenating microbial populations to increase conjugated linoleic acids in animal-derived foods have been presented in different chapters.

• Antiviral agents
• Food preservatives
• Gastrointestinal microbiota
• Microbes
• Phytochemicals

• of Animal and Fishery Sciences, Department of Animal Nutrition, West Bengal University, Belgachia, Kolkata, India

  Amlan K. Patra