Lime treatment of agricultural residues to improve rumen digestibility

Animal Feed Science and Technology

Volumn 68, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 195-211

  Gandi, Jagruti ^a   Holtzapple, Mark T ^a   Ferrer, Alexis ^b   Byers, F Michael ^c   Turner, Nancy D ^c   Nagwani, Murlidhar ^a   Chang, Sushien ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL ZULIA   (Venezuela)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bagasse; Biomass; Digestibility; Lime; Millet; Rumen; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

NICOTIANA TABACUM; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM;

EID: 0000903420     PISSN: 03778401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8401(97)00050-3     Document Type: Article

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