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The contribution of chemical constituents of fodder tree and shrub leaves to gas produced during in vitro fermentation in nitrogen-free and nitrogen-rich media

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2018

M. Rosales ,
M. Gill ,
C. D. Wood ,
D. Romney ,
A. W. Speedy  and
J. Stewart
M. Rosales
Affiliation:
Centro para la Investigatión en Sistemas Sostenibles de Producción Agropecuaria, CIPAV, AA 20591, Cali, Colombia
M. Gill
Affiliation:
Natural Resources Institute, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TB
C. D. Wood
Affiliation:
Natural Resources Institute, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TB
D. Romney
Affiliation:
Natural Resources Institute, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TB
A. W. Speedy
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford 0X1 3RB
J. Stewart
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford 0X1 3RB
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In the tropics, fodder trees and shrubs are a very important source of nutrients, especially nitrogen. In vitro gas production methods used for food evaluation were originally developed for investigation of temperate forages and used a nitrogen-rich medium. Evaluation of fodder tree leaves in this medium may mask the effect of their nitrogen which it is important to understand. This trial studied the fermentation of a range of tropical fodder trees and shrubs in both nitrogen-rich and nitrogen-free media, in order to identify the main chemical entities contributing to gas production and the time within which such contributions were most important.

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BSAP Occasional Publication , Volume 22: In vitro techniques for measuring nutrient supply to ruminants , 1998 , pp. 178 - 181
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1998

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