Cephalosporium stripe (fungus str ipe) is a vascular wi l ttype disease of wheat and barley, which also affects other cereals and grasses. l t is caused by the soifborne fungus Cephalosporium gramineum. ln autumn, the fungus produces millions of bacteria-sized spores (conidia), which are washed into the soil around the plant. These spores are the structures that will eventually infect the plant...

Cereals and grasses adapt their structural development to environmental conditions and the resources available. The primary adaptive response is a variable degree of branching, called tillering in cereals. Especially for heterogeneous plant configurations the degree of tillering varies per plant. Functional-structural plant modeling (FSPM) is a modeling approach allowing simulation of the archi...

I. Sheep, cows and calves fitted with rumen cannulas were given diets mostly containing 10-16 g nitrogen/kg dry matter and consisting of roughage and cereals. Mixed bacteria w-ere separated from samples of their lumen contents. 2. Bacteria taken 4-6 h after a feed from calves which were kept in an experimental calfhouse with no contact with adult animals (environment -4) contained more a-dextra...

From this point of view, the knowledge and control of the level and distribution of contaminants and undesirable substances in food and feed are become a worldwide topic of interest due to the high economic and sanitary impact on human/animal health. Since it is impossible to fully eliminate the presence of undesirable substances and contaminants, an adequate surveillance and frequent checks ar...

The digestibility of the starch component of raw cereals in newly weaned piglets is highly variable. Reasons for this must be elucidated if the most suitable cereals are to be used. A novel approach was employed, which consisted of assessing the physicochemical properties (rapid visco analysis, water absorption and solubility indices, particle size distribution and in vitro amylolytic digestion...