Introduction Sunflower (Helianthus annus) seeds and byproduct meals are of importance in some parts of the world because they provide a source of high-oil protein material for livestock diets. The major sunflower producing areas of the world today are Argentina, China, Eastern Europe, and the United States. Although Australia produces only relatively small amounts of sunflower meal (Table 1), i...

This study aimed to analyze the economic feasibility of replacing soybean meal by sunflower cake in the diet of lambs. Twenty-eight non-castrated crossbred Suffolk lambs aged four months, with 21 kg average body weight ± 9 kg were used. These animals were distributed by weight category into 3 treatments (10, 20 and 30% dry matter (DM) addition of sunflower cake in replacing soybean meal) and co...

A simple process was developed for making low poly phenol and phytate sunflower meal. This meal contains 58% proteins, 0.2% phytates and 0.3% poly phenols. This meal may be used directly for food fortification to enrich the nutritional profile of traditional diets and also a feeding stock for protein isolation.

Two different strains of Rhizopus sp. i.e. R. oligosporus -M30 and R. arrhizus -M26 were employed for the production of acid protease using different agro-residues such as rice husk, rice bran, wheat bran, defatted soybean meal and sunflower meal as a sole carbon source. R. oligosporus -M30 gave maximum enzyme level with soybean meal (15.6 U/gds) while R. arrhizus -M26 with sunflower meal (13.6...

the method of quantitative competitive polymerase chain reaction (qc-pcr) was conducted to compare the number of rumen anaerobic fungi in pure culture of fungi containing high fat sunflower meal (165 g fat/kg dm) processed with formaldehyde and naoh. twenty one multiparous early lactating holstein cows (30±5 days of lactation) selected and fed experimental diets for 7 weaks. the diets were incl...

this research was performed to compare electron beam (eb) and gamma ray (gr) treatments at doses of 25, 50 and 75 kilo gray (kgy) on ruminal degradation kinetics and in vitro digestibility of sunflower meal (sfm). ionizing radiations of eb and gr had significant effects )p

This study was conducted to determine in vitro crude protein degradation (IVDP) parameters and effective crude protein degradability (EPD) of various feeds using the modified in vitro gas production (GP) technique. Feed samples were alfalfa hay, soybean meal, soybean, rapeseed meal, sunflower meal and fish meal. Rumen fluid was collected before the morning feeding from four rumen fistulated lam...

1. The availability of lysine in seven vegetable protein concentrates was determined using the slope-ratio assay with growing pigs and rats and with two chemical techniques. 2. With pigs, estimates of availability were lower using carcass compared to live-weight values, but there was no consistent effect of including food intake in the criterion of response. Availability estimates, using food c...

the objectives of this study were to determine the effects of feeding rapeseed (27%, dm basis) and sunflower biodiesel by-products as protein supplements on fatty acid composition (fa), profile (ratios and indices),enzyme activitiesfrom thecarcassin lambs fed cereal-based diets. simultaneously, itwas examined the relationship between ingested fa and carcass fa. samples were obtaine dfrommal efa...