Nutritive value of wheat straw treated with Pleurotus fungi

• Main Authors: Fazaeli, Hassan, Mahmoudzadeh, Homayoun, Azizi, Aslan, Mohd Jelan, Zainal Aznam, Liang, Juan Boo, Rouzbehan, Yousef, Osman, A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies 2004
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50076/1/Nutritive%20value%20of%20wheat%20straw%20treated%20with%20Pleurotus%20fungi.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50076/; http://www.ajas.info/journal/view.php?number=20899
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Soaked and pasteurised wheat straw was inoculated with five species of Pleurotus fungi (coded P-21, P-30, P-41, P-60 and P-90), packed in polyethylene bags and incubated in a fermentation chamber for 21 days. The chemical composition, in vitro digestibility and in sacco degradability of the treated...