Phytate and phytase

Enzymes in Farm Animal Nutrition

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 160-205

  Selle, Peter H ^a   Ravindran, Velmurugu ^b   Cowieson, Aaron J ^c   Bedford, Michael R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c AB VISTA   (United Kingdom)

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