Arnoldo González-Reyna

Autonomous University of Tamaulipas

Arnoldo Gonzalez Reyna has a bachelor’s degree in Agronomy from the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas (UAT), Mexico, an MSc from Utah State University, USA, and a Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, where he also completed a postdoctoral fellowship. He is an Emeritus Professor at UAT, with a research and academic career spanning for more than 50 years. Dr. González Reyna worked with Criollo cattle and hair sheep for the Mexican Association of Animal Production for 13 years and, subsequently, initiated work with UAT. He has authored numerous publications, including indexed and refereed articles, book chapters, and books. His areas of expertise are ruminant physiology and endocrinology of reproduction, animal production systems, and biotechnology of reproduction. He continues teaching and counseling graduate students at UAT and working with private producers in Northeast México.

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of landraces. It is organized into two sections on animal landraces and plant landraces. Section 1 includes two chapters that discuss the use of ruminants in tropical regions. Section 2 includes four chapters that examine the benefits of indigenous plants and discuss strategies for improving wheat production. The information provided can be applied to various regions to solve local problems and needs, such as low-income production systems, and to preserve animal and plant resources.

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Importance of Minerals in the Diet of Cattle in the Tropical Climate of Mexico

By Marco Antonio Esteves Luna, M.C. Samuel Tabe Roldan, Leonel Avendaño Reyes, Fredy Minor Perez, Arnoldo González-Reyna, Francisco Javier Trejo Meza and Julio Cesar Camacho Ronquillo

The chapter addresses the importance of minerals in the diet of cattle in a tropical climate to maintain their body condition in relation to productive activity and especially reproductive activity, this importance falls on the physiological processes within the animal organism considering that fantastic world that explain the phenomena that occur within the organism that are important processes since they maintain cellular homeostasis, this allows the generation of cells of the body structure as well as male and female gametes that influence the conservation and maintenance of biochemical phenomena with the emphasis on conserving the organic status that, when unbalanced, generates fertility problems, affecting above all milk and meat productivity, generating economic losses in cattle ranches in southern Mexico. It is convenient to indicate that Mexican soils in a great proportion present deficiencies of minerals such as zinc, selenium, boron, chromium, a few to comment that along with forage production, this is accompanied to produce infertility phenomena in cattle. in grazing that influence the presentation of heats, corresponding to artificial insemination as well as problems in ovarian pathologies that inhibit ovarian cycling and become unprofitable, for this reason this the minerals in the diet is important so that the profitability of milk and meat benefits the producers of the countryside in southern Mexico

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