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The effect of wheat endosperm texture on nutritional value for weaned piglets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2017

G White ,
F Doucet ,
S Hill  and
J Wiseman
G White
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
F Doucet
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
S Hill
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
J Wiseman*
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
*
Email: julian.wiseman@nottingham.ac.uk
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Wheat is a major component of piglet diets, representing a significant source of energy. Nutritional value of wheat can be influenced by genetic and environmental factors (Wiseman and Inborr, 1990). Previous work examining the effect of wheat cultivar on pig performance has failed to show a clear relationship with digestibility (Lewis et al., 1999), although selection of which wheats to evaluate has invariably been unstructured. The aim of the current study was to investigate the effect of wheat endosperm texture, in wheats which were closely related, on nutritional value for the newly weaned piglet.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2006 , March 2006 , pp. 29
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Copyright © The American Society of International Law 2016

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Lewis, F. J., McCann, M. E. E., Schultze, H., McEvoy, J. and McCracken, K. J. (1999). The effects of wheat variety, dietary heat treatment and enzyme inclusion on digestibility parameters for growing pigs. Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science, pp 165 Google Scholar
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