Nutritive value of several tropical legume shrubs in Hainan province of China

Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances

Volumn 10, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1640-1648

  Zhou, Hanlin ^a   Li, Mao ^a   Zi, Xuejuan ^b   Xu, Tieshan ^a   Hou, Guanyu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HAINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chemical composition; In vitro dry matter degradability; In vitro gas production; Metabolizable energy; Organic matter digestibility; Relative feed value

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052248667     PISSN: 16805593     EISSN: 1993601X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/javaa.2011.1640.1648     Document Type: Article

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