Evaluation of fungal degradation of wheat straw cell wall using different analytical methods from ruminant nutrition perspective

• Main Authors: Md Nayan, Mohd Nazri, Erven, Gijs van, Kabel, Mirjam A., Sonnenberg, Anton S. M., Hendriks, Wouter H., Cone, John W.
• Format: Article
• Published: John Wiley & Sons 2019
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/79750/; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jsfa.9634

BACKGROUND White rot fungi have been used to improve the nutritive value of lignocellulose for ruminants. In feed analysis, the Van Soest method is widely used to determine the cell wall contents. To assess the reliability of this method (Method A) for determination of cell wall contents in fungal-...