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Nutritive value index of treated wheat straw with Pleurotus fungi fed to cow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2017

Hassan Fazaeli  and
Seyed Ahmad Mirhadi
Hassan Fazaeli*
Affiliation:
Animal Science Research Institute, Karaj, Tehran, Iran
Seyed Ahmad Mirhadi
Affiliation:
Animal Science Research Institute, Karaj, Tehran, Iran
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Email:[email protected]
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Biological de-lignification of straw by white-rot fungi seems a promising way of improving its nutritive value. The bio-conversion of lignocellulosic materials is circumscribed to the group of white-rot fungi, of which some species of Pleurotus are capable of producing upgraded spent-straws as ruminant feed (Fazaeli et al., 2004). Treating of cereal straw with white-rot fungi as animal feed was studied by several workers (Gupta et al., 1993; Zadrazil, 1997). However, most of the trials were conducted at in vitro stage and used cell wall degradation and in vitro digestibility as an index to evaluate the biological treatments. This experiment was conducted to study the effect of fungal treatment on the voluntary intake, in vivo digestibility and nutritive value index of wheat straw obtained from short-term and long-term solid state fermentation (SSF).

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2007 , April 2007 , pp. 197
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2007

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