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Studies on the digestibility of the cellulose fraction of grassland products. Part I. The relation between the digestibility of silage cellulose as determined in vitro and silage crude fibre digestibility determined by feeding trial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

A. John G. Barnett
Affiliation:
Division of Agricultural Biochemistry, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Aberdeen

Extract

1. An in vitro method is described whereby it is possible to obtain the digestibility coefficient of silage cellulose. The apparatus and techniques used are described in detail and the reproducibility of the results obtainable is stressed.

2. The results so obtained on twenty-seven samples of silage of diverse nature, with regard to composition and method of production, show a reasonable degree of correlation with the corresponding figures for the digestibility coefficients of crude fibre obtained by feeding trial.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1957

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