The nutritive value of concentrate feedstuffs for ruminant animals Part II: In situ ruminal degradability of crude protein

Animal Feed Science and Technology

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 131-143

  Woods, V B ^a,b,c   Moloney, A P ^b   O'Mara, F P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b GRANGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

^c AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concentrates; Database generation; In situ ruminal degradability; Samples

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; FRIESIA; HELIANTHUS; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; MICROPUS; SINAPIS ARVENSIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0242713080     PISSN: 03778401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8401(03)00222-0     Document Type: Article

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