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Use of Detergents in the Analysis of Fibrous Feeds. II. A Rapid Method for the Determination of Fiber and Lignin
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The acid-detergent fiber method (ADF) as mentioned in this paper is a fiber method based on cetyl trimethylammonium bromide to dissolve proteins in acid solution.Abstract:
The capacity of cetyl trimethylammonium bromide to dissolve proteins in acid solution has been utilized in development of a method, called acid-detergent fiber method (ADF), which is not only a fiber determination in itself bnt also the major preparatory step in the determination of lignin. The entire procedure for determining fiber and lignin is considerably more rapid than presently published methods. Compositional studies show ADF to consist chiefly of lignin and polysaccharides. Correlations with the new fiber method and digestibility of 18 forages (r = —0.79) showed it to be somewhat superior to crude fiber (r = —0.73) in estimating nutritive valué. The correla-read more
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Litter N-content influences soil millipede abundance, species richness and feeding preferences in a semi-evergreen dry forest of Guadeloupe (Lesser Antilles)
Gladys Loranger-Merciris,Gladys Loranger-Merciris,Daniel Imbert,Patrick Lavelle,Jean-François Ponge +4 more
TL;DR: It is confirmed that there was a close correlation between the preferred food, its chemical composition and the local distribution of millipede populations in a natural secondary dry forest of Guadeloupe.
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Ruminant Utilization of Silage in Relation to Hay, Pellets, and Hay Plus Grain. I. Composition, Digestion, Nitrogen Balance, Intake, and Growth
TL;DR: The amount of nitrogen retained per unit weight gain indicated that the lower utilization of nitrogen on the silage ration was first caused by the lower energy relative to nitrogen.
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Evaluation of fermentability of acid-treated maize husk by rat caecal bacteria in vivo and in vitro.
TL;DR: Results indicate that a short-term incubation of caecal contents is a useful method for evaluation of the fermentability of DF sources, and that acid treatment can increase the fermentable energy of an insoluble DF source.
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Fermentative hydrogen production with peanut shell as supplementary substrate: effects of initial substrate, pH and inoculation proportion.
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of initial substrate concentration, pH and inoculum proportion were investigated with a novel hydrogen producer of Clostridium guangxiense ZGM211T.
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Microbial numbers, rumen fermentation, and nitrogen utilization of steers fed wet or dried brewers' grains.
TL;DR: Altering in microbial numbers, fermentation measurements, and nitrogen utilization were associated with more soluble nitrogen with wet (13.4%) versus dried (3.3%) brewers' grains and nitrogen retention was increased in steers fed the higher crude protein diet.
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