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D. P. Poppi is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia, focusing their research primarily within the Agricultural and Biological Sciences field. Their work covers a significant number of publications, particularly in the subfields of Agronomy and Crop Science, Plant Science, Genetics, Food Science, and Animal Science and Zoology.

The scientist's research topics notably include:

  • Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
  • Cassava research and cyanide
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Food and Agricultural Sciences
  • Moringa oleifera research and applications
  • Animal Nutrition and Physiology
  • Reproductive Physiology in Livestock

Poppi has contributed to a variety of peer-reviewed articles published in several scientific journals. Some of the recent papers include:

  • "Greater farmer investment in well-formulated diets can increase liveweight gain and smallholder gross margins from cattle fattening," published in 2020 in Livestock Science
  • "Formulating rations with cassava meal to promote high live weight gain in crossbred Limousin bulls," published in 2020 in animal
  • "Formulating diets based on whole cassava tuber (Manihot esculenta) and gliricidia (Gliricidia sepium) increased feed intake, liveweight gain and income over feed cost of Ongole and Bali bulls fed low quality forage in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia," published in 2021 in Animal Production Science
  • "Effect of a high crude protein content diet during energy restriction and re-alimentation on animal performance, skeletal growth and metabolism of bone tissue in two genotypes of cattle," published in 2021 in PLoS ONE
  • "Differential voluntary feed intake and whole transcriptome profiling in the hypothalamus of young sheep offered CP and phosphorus-deficient diets," published in 2023 in animal

Frequent collaborators in Poppi's research include:

  • S. P. Quigley
  • Karen Harper
  • Cuk Tri Noviandi
  • Ali Agus
  • S. R. McLennan

The scientist has published multiple papers in notable venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Animal Production Science
  • animal
  • Advances in biological sciences research/Advances in Biological Sciences Research
  • PLoS ONE
  • Livestock Science

Best Publications

  • Protein and energy utilization by ruminants at pasture.

    Dennis P. Poppi;Stuart R. McLennan

  • The validity of the critical size theory for particles leaving the rumen

    D. P. Poppi;B. W. Norton;D. J. Minson;R. E. Hendricksen

  • Immediate and residual effects of heat stress and restricted intake on milk protein and casein composition and energy metabolism

    Fran Cowley;D G Barber;AV Houlihan;D P Poppi

  • The effect of post-ruminal infusion of protein or energy on the pathophysiology of Trichostrongylus colubriformis infection and body composition in lambs

    Brown;DP Poppi;AR Sykes

  • Studies of cattle and sheep eating leaf and stem fractions of grasses. 1. The voluntary intake, digestibility and retention time in the reticulo-rumen

    DP Poppi;DJ Minson;JH Ternouth

  • Studies of cattle and sheep eating leaf and stem fractions of grasses. 3. The retention time in the rumen of large feed particles

    DP Poppi;DJ Minson;JH Ternouth

  • Studies of cattle and sheep eating leaf and stem fractions of grasses. 2. Factors controlling the retention of feed in the reticulo-rumen

    DP Poppi;DJ Minson;JH Ternouth

  • The effect of the density and physical properties of grass stems on the foraging behaviour and instantaneous intake rate by cattle grazing an artificial reproductive tropical sward

    M. A. Benvenutti;M. A. Benvenutti;M. A. Benvenutti;I. J. Gordon;D. P. Poppi

  • Extent of digestion and rumen condition as factors affecting passage of liquid and digesta particles in sheep

    A. de Vega;D. P. Poppi

  • Effects of enzyme addition to canola meal in prawn diets

    J. Buchanan;H.Z. Sarac;D. Poppi;R.T. Cowan

  • Nutritional research to meet future challenges

    D. P. Poppi;S. R. McLennan

  • Nutritional Ecology of Grazing and Browsing Ruminants

    Alan J. Duncan;Dennis P. Poppi

  • The voluntary intake, digestibility and retention time by cattle and sheep of stem and leaf fractions of a tropical legume (Lablab purpureus)

    RE Hendricksen;DP Poppi;DJ Minson

  • The effect of endoparasitism on host nutrition - the implications for nutrient manipulation.

    D. P. Poppi;A. R. Sykes;R. A. Dynes

  • The horizontal barrier effect of stems on the foraging behaviour of cattle grazing five tropical grasses

    Marcelo A. Benvenutti;Marcelo A. Benvenutti;Marcelo A. Benvenutti;Iain J. Gordon;Dennis P. Poppi;Robert Crowther

  • The effects of stem density of tropical swards and age of grazing cattle on their foraging behaviour

    M. A. Benvenutti;M. A. Benvenutti;M. A. Benvenutti;I. J. Gordon;D. P. Poppi

  • The nutritive value for ruminants of tagasaste (Chamaecytisus palmensis), a leguminous tree

    F.M.P. Borens;D.P. Poppi

  • Nitrogen transactions along the digestive tract of lambs concurrently infected with Trichostrongylus colubriformis and Ostertagia circumcincta

    M. D. Bown;D. P. Poppi;Andrew R. Sykes

  • Challenges of beef cattle production from tropical pastures

    Dennis P. Poppi;Simon P. Quigley;Tiago Alves Corrêa Carvalho da Silva;Stuart R. McLennan

  • Supplementation of cattle fed tropical grasses with microalgae increases microbial protein production and average daily gain

    D. F. A. Costa;S. P. Quigley;P. Isherwood;S. R. McLennan

  • Marker concentration patterns of labelled leaf and stem particles in the rumen of cattle grazing bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon) analysed by reference to a raft model.

    DP Poppi;WC Ellis;JH Matis;Carlos E. Lascano

  • The intake, digestion and protein degradation of grazed herbage by early-weaned lambs

    G. J. Cruickshank;D. P. Poppi;Andrew R. Sykes

  • Defoliation patterns and their implications for the management of vegetative tropical pastures to control intake and diet quality by cattle

    M. A. Benvenutti;D. R. Pavetti;D. P. Poppi;I. J. Gordon

  • Predictions of food intake in ruminants from analyses of food composition

    DP Poppi

  • The effects of a concurrent infection of Trichostrongylus colubriformis and Ostertagia circumcincta on calcium, phosphorus and magnesium transactions along the digestive tract of lambs.

    M.D. Bown;D.P. Poppi;A.R. Sykes

  • Foraging mechanics and their outcomes for cattle grazing reproductive tropical swards

    Marcelo A. Benvenutti;Marcelo A. Benvenutti;Marcelo A. Benvenutti;Iain J. Gordon;Dennis P. Poppi;Robert Crowther

  • Dietary-digestive-metabolic interactions determining the nutritive potential of ruminant diets

    W. C. Ellis;D. P. Poppi;J. H. Matis;H. Lippke

Frequent Co-Authors

Iain J. Gordon
Iain J. Gordon James Hutton Institute
John P. Cant
John P. Cant University of Guelph
Geoffry Fordyce
Geoffry Fordyce University of Queensland
Michael McGowan
Michael McGowan University of Queensland
Lindsay W. Bell
Lindsay W. Bell Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Gordon E. Carstens
Gordon E. Carstens Texas A&M University
Luis O. Tedeschi
Luis O. Tedeschi Texas A&M University
Brian W. McBride
Brian W. McBride University of Guelph
James P. Muir
James P. Muir Texas A&M University
Danny G. Fox
Danny G. Fox Cornell University

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