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Chemical treatments for increasing the digestibility of cotton straw: 2. Effect of ozone and sodium hydroxide treatments on the digestibility of cell-wall monosaccharides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

D. Ben-Ghedalia  and
G. Shefet
D. Ben-Ghedalia
Affiliation:
Institute of Animal Science, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel
G. Shefet
Affiliation:
Institute of Animal Science, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel
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Summary

The digestibility of cell wall (CW) monosaccharides of diets containing as 50 % of their OM, untreated, sodium hydroxide and ozone-treated cotton straw (CS), was studied in sheep cannulated in the rumen and at the duodenum with simple cannulae.

CS contributed the major part of the dietary cell-wall glucose, xylose and uronic acid in the three diets. The digestibility of the diets' CW glucose was 38·2, 66·6 and 50·2 % for the untreated, ozone and NaOH-treated CS-diets, respectively. Ozone and NaOH treatments significantly increased the digestibility of cotton straw CW glucose by 108 and 42%, respectively. The highest digestibility of CW xylose in the whole diet was obtained in the NaOH treatment: 43·4% as compared with 19·1 and 31·2% in the untreated and ozone-treated diets. The calculated values of CW xylose digestibility in CS were lower than those of CW glucose. Ozone remarkably increased the degradation of CW uronic acids. The calculated value for ozonated CS was 68·7%, 4·09 and 1·47 times higher than in the untreated and NaOH-treated CS.

Irrespective of diet, the digestibilities of the minor CW sugars, i.e. arabinose, galactose and mannose, were high, and their degradation was largely completed in the rumen. The contribution of the hindgut flora was expressed mainly in degrading the residues of the potentially digestible CW glucose and CW xylose.

The digestibility values of ADF-cellulose and those of CW glucose were compatible, whereas those of hemicellulose (determined as NDF-ADF) and CW non-glucose polysaccharides (NGP) were clearly different. The digestibility of NGP was 16·8, 36·6 and 43·2% for the untreated, ozone and NaOH-treated CS, respectively. It is suggested that those values more closely represent the digestibility of the ‘true hemicellulose’ fraction.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 100 , Issue 2 , April 1983 , pp. 401 - 406
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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