Abstract Background The use of maize-legume mixed culture to produce renewable energy and fertilizers by anaerobic fermentation (AD), while respecting soil quality is a favourable approach in sustainable farming. This paper investigates how the substrate (silage) composition affects digestate thus its effect on selected parameters (respiration, content carbon nitrogen). high remaining nutrients...

I . A total of six diets based on maize silage were formulated to examine the effect of proteinand non-protein-nitrogen, and energy supplementation on the flow of amino acids to the small intestine and the synthesis of microbial amino acids in the rumen of growing cattle. All diets contained 24 g total nitrogen (N)/kg dry matter (DM), of which 550 g N/kg total N was supplied by either urea or f...

The brown-midrib mutants of maize have a reddish-brown pigmentation of the leaf midrib and stalk pith, associated with lignified tissues. These mutants progressively became models for lignification genetics and biochemical studies in maize and grasses. Comparisons at silage maturity of bm1, bm2, bm3, bm4 plants highlighted their reduced lignin, but also illustrated the biochemical specificities...

Maize is the highest yielding cereal crop grown worldwide for grain or silage. Here, we show that modulating the expression of the maize PLASTOCHRON1 (ZmPLA1) gene, encoding a cytochrome P450 (CYP78A1), results in increased organ growth, seedling vigour, stover biomass and seed yield. The engineered trait is robust as it improves yield in an inbred as well as in a panel of hybrids, at several l...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects fermentation parameters on addition clove oil oat straw, alfalfa hay, and maize silage at a 3% dry matter basis. In vitro gas production, methane production (CH4), metabolic energy (ME), net lactation (NEL), organic digestion (OMD) were all influenced by (P

Maize is an ideal forage crop for ensilage because of its high levels fermentable carbohydrates, although it low in protein. Sunn hemp a legume with crude protein content potential to be used combination maize provide silage higher content. Different percentages sunn hemp-maize mixtures 80-20, 60-40, 40-60 and 20-80 respectively were compared silages sole hemp. In the laboratory study, DLG clas...

Two experiments were conducted with golden Hubbard pullet chicks to investigate the replacement effects of locally prepared fish silage for imported meal in and layers' rations. Acidic neutral preparations concentrated either maize or cassava plus groundnut wheat offals, fed as a substitute meal. Results pullets showed good feed consumption all dietary treatments but efficiency was decreased (P...

Tropical legumes are used to prepare mixed silages enrich the crude protein (CP) content. In This context, objective of this study was evaluate dynamics fermentation and quality maize silage with different levels Pigeon pea. The experimental design entirely randomized, four repetitions. treatments comprised six added pea (0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100%), calculated based on natural matter. hybrid vari...