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1Ding, Shuai

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1Barley grain
1DMD
1Diastatic power
1FTIR
1Friability
1In situ

1Malting characteristic
1Principle component analysis
1Rumen digestion
1Seed hardness

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1Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science

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1Oba, Masahito (Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science)
1Yang, Wenzhu (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge)

Evaluation of seed hardness and malting characteristics of barley grain for use in ruminant diets
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Spring 2015

Ding, Shuai

In Western Canada, over 70% of the barley grain grown for malt is sold as livestock feed. The main objective of this thesis was to investigate the relationship between ruminal dry matter digestibility (DMD) and seed hardness (SH) and malting characteristics (MC) of barley grain by measuring in...

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Evaluation of seed hardness and malting characteristics of barley grain for use in ruminant diets