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Buffering capacity of sweet sorghum: The effects of nitrogen content, growth stage and ensilage
Author(s) -
Playne M. J.
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
journal of the science of food and agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1097-0010
pISSN - 0022-5142
DOI - 10.1002/jsfa.2740140709
Subject(s) - forage , sorghum , nitrogen , agronomy , sweet sorghum , chemistry , plant growth , biology , organic chemistry
The buffering capacities of sweet sorghum plant material at three stages of growth and at two plant nitrogen levels were compared before and after 5 days of ensilage. Buffering capacity decreased with plant age, but showed no significant relation to total nitrogen content or non‐protein nitrogen content of the plant. The buffering capacity of the fermented forage was, overall, about twice that of the unfermented forage, but this increase was not apparently related to the increase in the products of protein breakdown which occurred during ensilage.