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Modified wood waste and straw as potential components of animal feeds
Author(s) -
Hartley Roy D.,
Jones Edwin C.,
King Norman J.,
Smith Gordon A.
Publication year - 1974
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.2740250412
Subject(s) - sawdust , beech , straw , rumen , lignin , organic matter , chemistry , fomes , rice straw , earthworm , by product , zoology , agronomy , botany , food science , biology , fermentation , biochemistry , organic chemistry
Beech, oak and poplar sawdusts and barley straw were modified by physical, chemical and fungal treatments and then evaluated for their possible usefulness as components of animal feeds by measuring their digestibility using a rumen liquor‐acid pepsin in vitro method. The most successful modification of sawdust was achieved by fungal treatment with Fomes lividus followed by NaOH treatment. The apparent organic matter digestibility (o.m.d.) of beech was increased from 5 to 59, and of oak sapwood from 14 to 56. By the same treatments, the o.m.d. of straw was increased from 46 to 70.