Microbial Inoculation of Alfalfa for Ensiling on Apparent Digestibility in Wethers;Inoculação Microbiana da Alfafa para Ensilagem sobre a Digestibilidade Aparente em Carneiros

Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1925-1930

  Mazza Rodrigues, Paulo Henrique ^a   Tavares De Andrade, Stefano Juliano ^a   Simões De Almeida, Luis Fernando ^b   Marques Meyer, Paula ^a   Ribeiro De Lima, Felix ^a   De Sousa Lucci, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FAPESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Digestion; Ensiling; Lactic acid bacteria; Medicago sativa; Sheep

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347870370     PISSN: 01004859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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