Direct estimation of the extent of contamination of food residues by microbial matter after incubation within synthetic fibre bags in the rumen
- 1 June 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Agricultural Science
- Vol. 96 (3), 691-693
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021859600034675
Abstract
The artificial fibre bag technique has been widely used in studies of forage dry-matter digestibility (Van Keuren & Heinemann, 1962) and of the release of a range of plant constituents during fermentation in the rumen (Playne, McLeod & Dekker, 1972). More recently, the technique has been promoted as a simple means of estimating the rate and extent of food protein degradability in the rumen (θrskov & Mehrez, 1977; Mathers, Horton & Miller, 1977).Keywords
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