A study was conducted to find out the Non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) in terms of cellulose, hemicellulose, Neutral Detergent Fibre (NDF), Acid Detergent Fibre (ADF) and phytate phosphorus content of locally available poultry feed ingredients in and around Namakkal area. The mean NDF (%) of feed ingredients varied from 9.55 in maize and 11.64 in soyabean meal (SBM) to 45.88 in sunflower meal (...

Edible oil extraction is a large and well-developed sector based on solvent assisted using volatile organic compounds such as hexane. The of from oilseeds generates volumes oilseed by-products rich in proteins, fibres, minerals secondary metabolites that can be valued. This work reviews the current status bio-macro-composition oilseeds, namely soybean, rapeseed, sunflower flaxseed, refining pro...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of dietary supplementation with raw or heat-treated sunflower oil seed with two levels of 7.5% or 15% on unsaturated fatty acids in milk fat and performances of high-yielding lactating cows. Twenty early lactating Holstein cows were used in a complete randomized design. Treatments included: 1) CON, control (without sunflower oil seed). ...

protein and energy are the two major components of feed that influence performance of the growing and fattening lambs. provision of the quality of protein in the lamb’s diet does not only improve the animal performance but also ensures profitable animal production. different vegetable protein sources are used to formulate the rations for growing and fattening lambs. these protein sources differ...

Proteins derived from plant resources such as oilseed meals, canola and sunflower, are considered a viable alternative to animal proteins for food consumption. This work presents rational methodology, using high throughput experimentation (HTE), the separation of cruciferin napin, two major meal, by chromatography. Eight different mixed mode ion exchange resins were evaluated at conditions with...

The article examines existing methods for assessing the homogeneity of feed mixes in industry and agriculture. As an alternative to approaches, authors offer a low-cost online technology assess feed. feedstuff under study includes cattle or compound consisting naturally-grown (green mass freshly cut grass, haylage, corn silage, etc.) concentrated components (grain milling, sunflower, soybean me...

We selected honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera L.) with a high tendency to collect sunflower pollen and estimated the heritability of this trait. The percentage of sunflower pollen collected by 74 colonies was evaluated. Five colonies that collected the highest percentages of sunflower pollen were selected. Nineteen colonies headed by daughters of these selected queens were evaluated for this c...

After a previous 84-d performance phase, a study was conducted using 16 West African Dwarf (WAD) ewes. Ewes (Initial BW 17.5 ± 0.19kg) were used in a completely randomized design to study the effects of increasing level of Mexican sunflower leaf meal (MSLM) on nitrogen balance. The experimental animals were assigned to 4 treatment groups A (O%MSLM), B(15%MSLM), C (30%MSLM) and D (45%MSLM) of 4 ...

Oligonucleotide-based microarrays with accurate gene coverage represent a key strategy for transcriptional studies in orphan species such as sunflower, H. annuus L., which lacks full genome sequences. The goal of this study was the development and functional annotation of a comprehensive sunflower unigene collection and the design and validation of a custom sunflower oligonucleotide-based micro...

Ruminal nitrogen degradation and intestinal digestibility (ID) of the undegraded nitrogen of three sunflower meals were determined on three wethers fitted with rumen cannulae and T-type duodenal cannulae using nylon bags. Meals were obtained from semi-dehulled seeds by conventional hexane extraction (samples SD1 and SD2) or from whole seeds by a discontinuous procedure of pressing and hexane ex...