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... Algal bloom of eutrophic freshwaters is important from different aspects of sustainable developmental perspectives. Apart from the identification of the algal species which multiply fast in response to eutrophication, phytoplankton studies concerning water quality parameters of eutrophic waters help environment inventory of such fast-growing algal species. The knowledge of specific environment req ...
... Using classical breeding, plant breeders envision a plant type whose yield they aim to enhance by selecting for individual traits to create model/ideal plants or ideotypes. To achieve this, those factors restricting yield need to be identified and controlled through the use of new technologies to achieve the desired ideotype. This study aimed to determine the ideotype of seven genetically modified ...
... Bran, a byproduct still mainly used for animal feed, is receiving increased attention as potential ingredient for a healthier diet. The aim of this study was to characterize and evaluate the nutritional and antioxidant properties of wheat and oat bran in order to promote their use as nutraceutical ingredients in flour and/or other products. The effects of grain (wheat vs. oat) and milling fraction ...
... Our objective was to determine whether the use of 30-h in vitro NDF digestibility (NDFD30) of fibrous ingredients included in rations fed to lactating dairy cattle improves the accuracy of milk and CH₄ production predictions from the Cornell Net Carbohydrate and Protein System (CNCPS, v. 6.5).Animal performance from 8 energy-balance studies were compiled into a database along with the treatments f ...
alkaloids; correlation; feeds; monitoring; solid phase extraction; sorbents; tandem mass spectrometry; ultra-performance liquid chromatography
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... To detect and quantify synephrine in feed, an effective analytical method based on quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe solid‐phase extraction coupled to ultra high performance liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry was developed with isotopic internal standards. Pretreatment was performed using quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe solid‐phase extraction with pri ...
... Corn is one of the staple food and feed ingredients in China, therefore its storage is of particular importance. Corn is typically stored for 2 or more years in national barns before it is sold as a food or feed ingredient. However, the effects of stored corn in national barns on the animal performance and nutrient utilization have not been investigated thus far. This study attempted to determine ...
abdominal fat; body length; body weight; correlation; crude protein; dietary protein; digestible energy; equations; feed conversion; feeds; hen feeding; laying hens; metabolizable energy; prediction; protein intake; sternum; tarsus (bone)
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... The objective was to use noninvasive measurements to formulate equations for predicting the abdominal fat weight of laying hens in a noninvasive manner. Hens were fed with different diets; the external body measurements of birds were used as regressors. We used 288 Hy-Line Brown laying hens, distributed in a completely randomized design in a factorial arrangement, submitted for 16 wk to 2 metaboli ...
... To investigate the bioavailability of thallium (Tl) in soil and rice in a Tl-contaminated area in Guangdong, China, the topsoil and rice samples were collected from 24 sampling sites and analyzed. Moreover, a modified sequential extraction procedure was applied to determine the different Tl fractions in the soil. The mean pH value of the soil samples was 4.50. The total Tl concentration in the pad ...
... In-feed antibiotics have been commonly used to promote the growth performance of piglets. The antibiotics can increase protein utilization, but the underlying mechanism is largely unknown. The present study investigated the effects of in-feed antibiotics on intestinal AA transporters and receptors to test the hypothesis that the alteration of circulating AA profiles may be concomitant with the cha ...
United States Environmental Protection Agency; animal organs; cage culture; cages; carnivores; coal; coasts; combustion; correlation; diet; farmed fish; farms; feces; feeds; fish culture; fish industry; human health; humans; ingestion; isotopes; mercury; methylmercury compounds; pellets; screening; sediments; statistical models; China
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... Coasts of South China have experienced an unprecedented growth in its marine-caged fish industry. We analyzed mercury concentrations and stable mercury isotope ratios in fourteen fish species from two cage-cultured farms in Southern China. Total mercury concentrations of all species were lower than the human health screening values, but the human exposures through consumption of several carnivorou ...
adverse effects; animal feeding; biofuels; blood serum; correlation; cortisol; dietary supplements; energy intake; energy metabolism; feed intake; feeds; fuel production; gestation period; glycerol; insulin; lactation; leptin; nutritive value; pregnancy; sows; value added; weight loss
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... The continued growth in biofuel production has led to a search for alternative value-added applications of its main by-product, crude glycerin. The surplus glycerin production and a higher cost of feedstuffs have increased the emphasis on evaluating its nutritive value for animal feeding. The aim of this research was to evaluate the effect of the dietary addition of crude glycerin on sow and litte ...
... Thailand is predominantly an agriculture-based country. Organic farming is enlisted as an important national agenda to promote food safety and international export. The present study aimed to determine the concentrations of trace elements in commercial organic fertilizers (fermented and nonfermented) composed of pig and cattle manures available in Thailand. Pig and cattle manures as well as animal ...
... Interaction between indigenous fungal strains in preventing ochratoxin A (OTA) production by Penicillium verrucosum and Penicillium nordicum was studied in 100 mL of Czapek yeast autolysate (CYA) medium in a 250-mL “U” shaped culture vessel in one end for 3 days. At the end of incubation period, test fungi inoculated and incubated at 27 ± 2 °C for another 14 days to study the inhibition of OTA pro ...
... Use of forage brassicas (Brassica napus) and lucerne (alfalfa; Medicago sativa) as ruminant feeds has been linked to unacceptable flavors in sheepmeat. Lambs from low and high intramuscular fat sires were allocated to one of four finishing feeds' perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne), lucerne, and two brassica forages for a 6 week period. Grilled loins (Longissimus thoracis et lumborum) were subject ...
agrochemicals; attributional life cycle assessment; case studies; correlation; cows; dairy farming; environmental impact; environmental indicators; farming systems; farms; feed conversion; feeds; manufacturing; milk; milk yield; nitrogen fertilizers; pasture management; pastures; production technology; stocking rate; system boundary; transportation; New Zealand
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... Intensification of pasture-based dairy farming systems is usually associated with increased use of off-farm inputs to increase milk production per hectare, and additional environmental impacts may be associated with upstream production and delivery of these off-farm inputs. The objective of this study was to compare two levels of dairy farming intensification (i.e. high versus low) in pasture-base ...
... A rapid, sensitive and validated method for the determination of fusaric acid (FA) in several Fusarium strains and different commercial food and feed products is reported based on ultra-performance liquid chromatography. This method requires only crude sample by a simple extraction with methanol, and requires a very short time of 8 min for completion. Separation of FA was performed at injection vo ...
... This experiment was conducted to investigate the relationship between fibre degradation kinetics and chemical composition of forages and by-products using nylon bag technology. Four rumen fistulated goats fed a medium concentrate diet were used to measure degradation kinetics of dry matter (DM), neutral detergent fibre (NDF) and acid detergent fibre (ADF). Fourteen feed samples included 6 forage s ...
... An immunochromatographic (ICG) strip was developed for the simultaneous quantitative determination of five quinoxaline-1,4-dioxides in animal feed. For this purpose, polyclonal antibodies (PcAb) with group-specific quinoxaline-1,4-dioxides were conjugated to colloidal gold particles as the detection reagent for ICG strips to test for quinoxaline-1,4-dioxides. This method achieved semi-quantitative ...
... Two experiments were conducted to study the nutritional value of four or seven cultivars of Lupinus luteus L. seeds. Experiments I and II were conducted on 150 and 240 16-day-old Ross 308 male chicks, respectively. The birds were allocated to five or eight dietary treatment groups (10 replications in each, three birds per replication). Feeds in four treatments from Experiment I and seven treatment ...
carbohydrates; correlation; cows; data collection; diet; digestion; energy; equations; farms; feeds; fractionation; lactation; metabolizable energy; milk; milk protein yield; model validation; models; prediction; protein content; proteins; rumen
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... New laboratory and animal sampling methods and data have been generated over the last 10 yr that had the potential to improve the predictions for energy, protein, and AA supply and requirements in the Cornell Net Carbohydrate and Protein System (CNCPS). The objectives of this study were to describe updates to the CNCPS and evaluate model performance against both literature and on-farm data. The ch ...