Claim · model-written summary
The maximum rate of gas production of alfalfa was greater than that of cicer milkvetch.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativae4 - Outcome
- maximum rate (R Max ) of gas productione4
- Direction
- greatere4
- Comparator
- cicer milkvetche4
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Verbatim
e4“The maximum rate (R Max ) of gas production was greater for the legumes alfalfa (ALF; Medicago sativa L.) and birdsfoot trefoil (BFT; Lotus corniculatus L.) than for the legume cicer milkvetch (CMV; Astragalus cicer L.)”
Title
Yunhua Zhang; Jennifer W MacAdam; Juan J Villalba; et al. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 2020. doi:10.1002/jsfa.10648
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Association The maximum rate of gas production of birdsfoot trefoil was greater than that of cicer milkvetch.
- Association The maximum rate of isolated NDF digestion was greatest for birdsfoot trefoil.
- Association The maximum rate of isolated NDF digestion was greatest for cicer milkvetch.
- Association The maximum rate of isolated NDF digestion was least for meadow brome.
- Association The maximum rate of isolated NDF digestion was intermediate for alfalfa.
- Association The maximum rate of isolated NDF digestion was intermediate for sainfoin.
- Association The maximum rate of isolated NDF digestion was intermediate for small burnet.
- Association Across forages, the extent of whole-plant digestion increased with NFC and crude protein concentrations.
- Association Across forages, the extent of whole-plant digestion decreased with NDF concentrations.
- Association Across forages, the extent of whole-plant digestion was modulated by secondary compounds.
- Association The extent of digestion of isolated NDF decreased with lignin and residual tannin concentrations.
- Observation More than 900 g of organic matter per kg dry matter of legumes was digested after 96 h.