An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of cereal carbohydrate form (isolated v. cereal matrix) and level, especially mixed-linked β-glucan (hereafter referred to as β-glucan) and starch amylase/amylopectin ratio on nutrient digestibility and fermentation parameters in the intestines of weaned pigs. Four hulless barley cultivars containing varying β-glucan levels (41 to 84 g/kg) wer...

Aim: This experiment was conducted to determine the effects of incorporation these two cereals on zootechnical performances, biochemical profile, characteristics carcass and consumable offal chickens. Methods: 318 broiler chicks (day-old) were divided into 3 lots. In group "barley", maize partially replaced by crushed barley during three conventional rearing phases, they are 31%, 32% 35% respec...

Barley-based cropping systems (BCS) alter barley production by influencing weed infestation rates and soil nutrient dynamics. This two-year field study evaluated the interactive effects of five BCS control strategies (WCS) on properties growth yield barley. Barley was planted in different systems, i.e., fallow-barley (FB), maize-barley (MaB), cotton-barley (CB), mungbean-barley (MuB) sorghum-ba...

OBJECTIVE Two experiments were conducted to determine the content of digestible energy (DE) and metabolizable energy (ME) as well as the apparent ileal digestibility (AID) and standardized ileal digestibility (SID) of crude protein (CP) and amino acids (AA) in barley grains obtained from Australia, France or Canada. METHODS In Exp. 1, 18 growing barrows (Duroc×Landrace×Yorkshire; 31.5±3.2 kg)...

The effects of jasmonic acid (JA) and abscisic aid (ABA) on secondary metabolism in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) were investigated. Treatment with JA at 100 microM for 48 h induced accumulation of four compounds in barley primary leaves. The accumulation of these compounds was also observed after treatment with ABA at 100 microM. The induced compounds were identified as p-coumaroylputrescine, p-...

ABSTRACT Eight different 3-year cropping systems, consisting of soybean-canola, soybean-barley, sweet corn-canola, sweet corn-soybean, green bean-sweet corn, canola-sweet corn, barley-clover, and continuous potato (non-rotation control) followed by potato as the third crop in all systems, were established in replicated field plots with two rotation entry points in Presque Isle, ME, in 1998. Cro...

The aim of this study was to determine the quality potato pulp silage (PPS) prepared with wheat bran and barley straw effects substituting corn at differing levels in dairy cows on milk yield, composition rumen volatile fatty acid (VFA). consisted two experiments. Nutrient con-tents, fermentation parameters, situ organic matter (OM) starch degradabilities, vitro digestibility (IVD) metabolic en...

the recent decades emphasis on reducing pesticide use especially herbicide has led to increased interest in alternative weed control methods. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the hilling time and simultaneous interseeding of two cover crops as living mulch to control weeds in potato and to determine the impact of these actions on potato yield. a randomized complete block design as spli...

A simple, sensitive, precise, and specific reverse HPLC method was developed and validated for the determination of plant hormones in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). The method includes extraction in aqueous organic solvent followed by solid-phase extraction, sample evaporation, and reversed-phase HPLC analysis in a general purpose UV-visible (abscisic acid (ABA)) and fluorescence detection (indol...

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