In vitro gas measuring techniques for assessment of nutritional quality of feeds: a review

G Getachew, M Blümmel, HPS Makkar… - Animal Feed Science and …, 1998 - Elsevier
The close association between rumen fermentation and gas production has been
recognised for over a century, but it is only since the 1940s that quantification techniques for …

Rice straw, the role of silica and treatments to improve quality

PJ Van Soest - Animal Feed Science and Technology, 2006 - Elsevier
Rice straw is unique relative to other cereal straws in being low in lignin and high in silica.
Unlike other cereal straws taller varieties of rice straws tend to be leafy while the leaves are …

Estimating the extent of degradation of ruminant feeds from a description of their gas production profiles observed in vitro: derivation of models and other mathematical …

J France, J Dijkstra, MS Dhanoa, S Lopez… - British Journal of …, 2000 - cambridge.org
Equations to describe gas production profiles, obtained using manual or automated systems
for in vitro fermentation of ruminant feeds, were derived from first principles by considering a …

An automated system for measuring gas production from forages inoculated with rumen fluid and its use in determining the effect of enzymes on grass silage

ZS Davies, D Mason, AE Brooks, GW Griffith… - Animal Feed Science …, 2000 - Elsevier
This paper describes an automated system that has been developed to measure the
production of fermentation gas from ruminant livestock feeds inoculated with rumen fluid …

In sacco degradability, chemical and morphological composition of 15 varieties of European rice straw

A Agbagla-Dohnani, P Nozière, G Clément… - Animal feed science and …, 2001 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to evaluate the variability in chemical and morphological variables
of European rice straw varieties and to relate these variations to changes in in sacco …

Estimating the extent of degradation of ruminant feeds from a description of their gas production profiles observed in vitro: comparison of models

MS Dhanoa, S Lopez, J Dijkstra, DR Davies… - British Journal of …, 2000 - cambridge.org
An evaluation of general models that describe gas production profiles is presented. The
models are derived from first principles by considering a simple three-pool scheme and …

A general compartmental model for interpreting gas production profiles

J France, S Lopez, E Kebreab, A Bannink… - Animal Feed Science …, 2005 - Elsevier
Equations to describe gas production profiles, obtained using manual or automated systems
for in vitro fermentation of ruminant feeds, are derived from first principles using a general …

In vitro fermentation patterns and methane production as influenced by cultivar and season of harvest of Lolium perenne L.

DK Lovett, D McGilloway, A Bortolozzo… - Grass and Forage …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
In some European countries, the majority of annual enteric methane (CH4) emissions by
ruminants occur at pasture–a direct result of the predominance of grazing within ruminant …

[PDF][PDF] Gas production: a proposed in vitro method to estimate the extent of digestion of a feedstuff in the rumen

S Pashaei, V Razmazar, R Mirshekar - J. Biol. Sci, 2010 - academia.edu
This study highlights the potential of a novel approach using an in vitro rumen fermentation
technique for evaluation of nutritional quality of feed resources. In vitro techniques have …

Effect of potassium fertilization on soil potassium pools and rice response in an intensive cropping system in China

Q Zhang, G Wang, Y Feng, P Qian… - Journal of Plant …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In order to assess the changes in soil K pools as affected by K‐fertilizer application and the
impact of the changes on K balance, grain yield, and K uptake, an experiment was …