Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] is the number one oil and protein crop in the United States, but the seed contains several anti-nutritional factors that are toxic to both humans and livestock. RNA interference technology has become an increasingly popular technique in gene silencing because it allows for both temporal and spatial targeting of specific genes. The objective of this research is t...

Graded levels of full-fat undecorticated Moringa oleifera seed meal (MOSM) were evaluated in diets 96-day old broilers at 2.5, 5.0 and 7.5% while a maize-soybean diet was used as reference diet. Nutrients utilization by the effects virgin dietary MOSMon serum chemistry, haematology some bio-data-protein efficiency ratio (PER) nitrogen metabolism (NM) response criteria for evaluation. The metabo...

From the last few years, the inclusion of microbial phytase in poultry diets has increased significantly, mainly in response to heightened concerns over phosphorus pollution of the environment and as cheaper means to make phosphorus available to birds from phytate. Phytate is the major form of phosphorus, abundantly found in cereal grains, beans and oilseed meals used in poultry diet but the mo...

BACKGROUND In plant-derived animal feedstuffs, nearly 80 % of the total phosphorus content is stored as phytate. However, phytate is poorly digested by monogastric animals such as poultry, swine and fish, as they lack the hydrolytic enzyme phytase; hence it is regarded as a nutritionally inactive compound from a phosphate bioavailability point of view. In addition, it also chelates important di...

Animal farming is a fast-growing sector which demands large supply of feed materials and the search for novel ingredients with smaller impact on global environment has been intensified. However, before inclusion these in animal feed, preliminary assessment quality performance needed. This evaluation usually done by vivo feeding trials, but vitro digestion methods have successfully used gatherin...

Canola meal (CM) produced after oil extraction has potential to be used as a nutrient-rich feeding ingredient for monogastric animals if its fiber and anti-nutritional factors can reduced while essential amino acids (AA) are increased. Fungal bioconversion provides way of improving value in CM animals. This study explored the effects three fungal strains namely, Rhizopus oryzae (R. oryzae), Muc...