01787naa a2200241 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902400490006010000180010924501610012726000090028852009680029765000190126565000270128465000280131165000200133965000290135965000140138865000150140265000220141770000180143977300880145715228342023-05-24       1974    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d7 ahttps://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.27402508052DOI1 aMcLEOD, M. N.  aPredicting dry matter digestibility from acid detergent fibre levels in Grasses as affected by a pretreatment with neutral detergent.h[electronic resource]  c1974  aAbstract: Acid detergent fibre was determined on 50 grass samples of known in vivo dry matter digestibility with and without a preliminary extraction with neutral detergent. Pretreatment with neutral detergent reduced the mean yield of acid detergent fibre from 41.5 to 36.8%. This decrease in acid detergent fibre was mainly due to a reduction in the level of ash which accounted for 57% of the difference in fibre level. The error in predicting dry matter digestibility of all feeds from acid detergent fibre was ±3.5 digestibility units and was increased to ±3.8 units following neutral detergent pretreatment. When acid detergent fibre was expressed on an ash-free basis the corresponding residual standard deviations were ±4.4 and ±4.5 units, respectively. It was concluded that a pretreatment with neutral detergent or expressing results on an ash-free basis did not improve the accuracy in predicting dry matter digestibility from acid detergent fibre.  aForage grasses  aIn vitro digestibility  aNeutral detergent fiber  aPlant nutrition  aDigestibilidade In Vitro  aGramínea  aNutrição  aPlanta Forrageira1 aMINSON, O. J.  tJournal of the Science of Food and Agriculturegv. 25, n. 8, p. 913-917, Aug. 1974.