Fiber Composition and in Vitro Digestibility of Corn Stover Fractions in Response to Ammonia Treatment

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3136-3142

  Sewalt, Vincent J H ^a,b   Fontenot, Joseph P ^a   Allen, Vivien G ^a,c   Glasser, Wolfgang G ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammoniation; Digestibility; Hemicellulose; Hydroxycinnamic acids; Lignin; NPN immobilization; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0004051703     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf960176d     Document Type: Article

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