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Short Summary: Guajillo

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Senegalia berlandieri (Acacia berlandieri) commonly known as Guajillo, is a legume small tree or shrub growing in northern Mexico and southern Texas. It belongs to the Leguminosae or Fabaceae family. It has seeds born in pods, compound leaves with numerous leaflets, and the roots are associated to bacteria that symbiotically fix nitrogen. This plant produce foliage and that are usually abundant in nitrogen compounds with a good indispensable amino acid composition. In addition. The plant provides food and good habitat protection for wildlife, and is browsed by both wildlife (white-tailed deer) and domestic (goats, sheep and cattle) ruminants, especially in periods of prolonged dry climate.

Senegalia berlandieri

However, guajillo contains …show more content…

Senegalia berlandieri comprises a great number of several alkaloids, the most abundant of those are tyramine, phenethylamine and N-methylphenethylamine. The same type of alkaloids were also reported in Vachellia rigidula.

Table 16.2. Total alkaloids found in dried leaves

Beta-methyl-phenethylamine It is a drug stimulant . It is found in many Acacia species, notably in Senegalia berlandieri.

Catechin
It is a antioxidant natural phenol. The catechin term is frequently used to refer to the related of flavonoid compounds.
Fisetin
It is a flavonol and in many plants is used as coloring …show more content…

It also motivates the discharge of norepinephrine in mammals.

Phenethylamine Some studies have found that functions as a neurotransmitter in the central nervous system of mammals

Quercetin
It is a flavonol used as a component in drinks or feedstuffs.

Tyramine
It functions as catecholamine liberating agent. Particularly, however, it is not able to cross the blood-brain-barrier, occasioning in just simply non- psychoactive peripheral sympathomimetic effects.

Data obtained from Beverly et al. (1997)

Nutritional value

Chemical analyses may recommend that S. berlandieri has high levels of crude protein (CP). However, could be confusing due to a significant quantity of N in the plant is in nonprotein nitrogen (NPN) form. Moreover, N in S. berlandieri is poorly digested due to the binding that happens between condensed tannins and protein and between and NDF components during ruminal

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