Threonine as the second limiting amino acid in barley for rowing-finishing pigs and growing rats

Supplementation with graded levels of threonine to an all barley-lysine diet (0.75% total lysine) improved the daily gain, feed efficiency and carcass quality of growing-finishing pigs. An addition of 0.10% threonine produced the optimum growth response in the experimental animals. No additional im...

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Main Author: Aw-yong, Lai Mon
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/18670