Offered Papers Theme A: Efficient Production from Grassland

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Plant wax alkanes are now widely used as marker substances (Dove & Mayes 1991) for the estimation of forage intake and diet composition of grazing herbivores. The objective of this study was to evaluate this method with cattle grazing a M. sinensis grassland in Japan.

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Using the N-Alkane Technique to Estimate the Herbage Intake and Diet Composition of Cattle Grazing a Miscanthus sinensis Grassland

Plant wax alkanes are now widely used as marker substances (Dove & Mayes 1991) for the estimation of forage intake and diet composition of grazing herbivores. The objective of this study was to evaluate this method with cattle grazing a M. sinensis grassland in Japan.