Exploring the Applications of <i>Lemna minor</i> in Animal Feed: A Review Assisted by Artificial Intelligence

The work aims to apply cheap and widely accessible tools based on artificial intelligence to analyze, group, and categorize a large amount of available research literature (from a massive bibliographic search) on the use of Lemna minor for animal feed, not only comprehensively and objectively, but a...

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Main Authors: Helmut Bethancourt-Dalmasí, Manuel Viuda-Martos, Raquel Lucas-González, Fernando Borrás, Juana Fernández-López
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description The work aims to apply cheap and widely accessible tools based on artificial intelligence to analyze, group, and categorize a large amount of available research literature (from a massive bibliographic search) on the use of Lemna minor for animal feed, not only comprehensively and objectively, but also in a more effective and less time-consuming way. In addition, a comprehensive and critical summary was conducted to highlight recent applications of <i>L. minor</i> in animal feed. The Scopus database was used for the original bibliographic search. Then, a newly developed online and freely available tool called “Jupyter Notebook on Google Colab” was applied to cluster the large volume of bibliographic data (1432 papers) obtained in the basic search, which allowed their reduction until only 148 papers. These papers were reviewed in a traditional way obtaining relevant information about <i>L. minor</i> production, nutritional value, composition, and its application as animal feed. In this sense, the most successful applications were for fish and poultry feeding, reaching levels of inclusion of 15–20% in fish and 5–15% in poultry. It is of great interest because of the expected increase in prices of conventional sources of protein for animal feed.
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spelling doaj-art-a1c78ffd82ad498e93e9b03b916ae1502025-08-20T03:26:16ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172025-06-011512673210.3390/app15126732Exploring the Applications of <i>Lemna minor</i> in Animal Feed: A Review Assisted by Artificial IntelligenceHelmut Bethancourt-Dalmasí0Manuel Viuda-Martos1Raquel Lucas-González2Fernando Borrás3Juana Fernández-López4Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA), Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), Santo Domingo 10105, Dominican RepublicAgri-Food and Agri-Environmental Research and Innovation Institute, Miguel Hernández University (CIAGRO-UMH), 03312 Orihuela, SpainAgri-Food and Agri-Environmental Research and Innovation Institute, Miguel Hernández University (CIAGRO-UMH), 03312 Orihuela, SpainStatistics and Operative Research Department, Miguel Hernández University, 03202 Elche, SpainAgri-Food and Agri-Environmental Research and Innovation Institute, Miguel Hernández University (CIAGRO-UMH), 03312 Orihuela, SpainThe work aims to apply cheap and widely accessible tools based on artificial intelligence to analyze, group, and categorize a large amount of available research literature (from a massive bibliographic search) on the use of Lemna minor for animal feed, not only comprehensively and objectively, but also in a more effective and less time-consuming way. In addition, a comprehensive and critical summary was conducted to highlight recent applications of <i>L. minor</i> in animal feed. The Scopus database was used for the original bibliographic search. Then, a newly developed online and freely available tool called “Jupyter Notebook on Google Colab” was applied to cluster the large volume of bibliographic data (1432 papers) obtained in the basic search, which allowed their reduction until only 148 papers. These papers were reviewed in a traditional way obtaining relevant information about <i>L. minor</i> production, nutritional value, composition, and its application as animal feed. In this sense, the most successful applications were for fish and poultry feeding, reaching levels of inclusion of 15–20% in fish and 5–15% in poultry. It is of great interest because of the expected increase in prices of conventional sources of protein for animal feed.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/12/6732aquatic plantsfeeding<i>Lemna</i> spp.bibliographic researchartificial intelligence
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Applied Sciences
aquatic plants
feeding
<i>Lemna</i> spp.
bibliographic research
artificial intelligence
title Exploring the Applications of <i>Lemna minor</i> in Animal Feed: A Review Assisted by Artificial Intelligence
title_full Exploring the Applications of <i>Lemna minor</i> in Animal Feed: A Review Assisted by Artificial Intelligence
title_fullStr Exploring the Applications of <i>Lemna minor</i> in Animal Feed: A Review Assisted by Artificial Intelligence
title_full_unstemmed Exploring the Applications of <i>Lemna minor</i> in Animal Feed: A Review Assisted by Artificial Intelligence
title_short Exploring the Applications of <i>Lemna minor</i> in Animal Feed: A Review Assisted by Artificial Intelligence
title_sort exploring the applications of i lemna minor i in animal feed a review assisted by artificial intelligence
topic aquatic plants
feeding
<i>Lemna</i> spp.
bibliographic research
artificial intelligence
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