A review of starch digestion in the lactating dairy cow and proposals for a mechanistic model: 1. Dietary starch characterisation and ruminal starch digestion

Journal of Animal and Feed Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 291-340

  Mills, J A N ^a   France, J ^a   Dijkstra, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dairy cow; Digestion; Model; Rumen; Starch

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; BOVIDAE; PROTOZOA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0000005282     PISSN: 12301388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22358/jafs/68938/1999     Document Type: Review

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