Welsh Plant Breeding Station

A convenient procedure for assessing the digestibility of forages is the cellulase digestibility technique. This was refined by Jones and Hayward (1973) at the Welsh Plant Breeding Station (WPBS) in Aberystwyth (since 1992, the Institute for Grassland and Environmental Research). It was later extended to a two-stage procedure with a pepsin pre-treatment (Jones and Hayward, 1975). 

Welsh Plant Breeding Station (now Institute for Grassland and Environmental Research) water soluble carbohydrate... 

The husk of a variant of oats, naked oats Avena nuda), is removed easily during threshing, leaving the kernel. Originally the yield and nutritional quality were low, but an improved variety, Rhiannon, was subsequently developed by the Welsh Plant Breeding Station (now the Institute for Biological and Environmental Rural Sciences). Naked oats have about 130-140 g crude protein, 6 g lysine and 100 g oil/kg DM. 

Biochemistry Department, Welsh Plant Breeding Station, Plas Gogerddan, Aberystwyth, Dyfed Sy 23 3Eb, Wales, UK... 

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