Consumo de nutrientes de cordeiros Santa Inês alimentados com níveis de feno de erva-sal (Atriplex nummularia L.) e concentrado.

Zootec 2011

Intake, apparent digestibility of nutrients and nitrogen and water balances of sheep fed with buffel grass cultivars silages

The objective of this present experiment was to determine intake and apparent digestibility of dry matter and nutrients, nitrogen (NB) and water balances (WB) of sheep fed with buffel grass silages. The buffel grass cultivars used were Tanzania, Buchuma and Biloela. 21 male, castrated, crossbred Santa Ines x Non defined genotype sheep, with initial body weight of 31.8±3.16kg were used, kept in metabolic cages. The experimental design was completely randomized with seven replicates. No differences were observed in dry matter intake in g/day (919.2) and % of body weight (2.9). In general, digestibility coefficients of dry matter varied from 37.7% to 60.0%. The NB and WB were positive, with higher NB values in sheep fed with Tanzania (5.1g/day) and Biloela (3.9g/day) and higher WB in animals fed with Buchuma (1.38kg/animal/day) and Biloela (1.42kg/animal/day). All cultivars of buffel grass evaluated (Tanzania, Buchuma and Biloela) presented adequate chemical composition, where the silage of buffel grass used corresponded to 60% of the total daily water intake by sheep

Production of yeast extract from whey using Kluyveromyces marxianus

A levedura Kluyveromyces marxianus CBS 6556 foi cultivada em soro de queijo para produzir extrato celular rico em nucleotídeos. O soro foi pré-tratado com AlcalaseTM. K marxianus foi inoculada e cultivada em batelada sob agitação e aeração de 7,0 L ar/min por 20 h em biorreator de 2 L de volume. A biomassa resultante foi submetida a diferentes tratamentos para obter os extratos enriquecidos. Tratamento térmico das células a 35 oC ou 50oC por 15-30h resultou em extratos contendo cerca de 20 g/L de proteína, mas apenas com o segundo tratamento apresentando pequenas quantidades de RNA, medido por eletroforese de gel e espectrofotometria. Em contraste, tratamento autolítico em solução tamponada foi o único a resultar na liberação de importantes quantidades de RNA intracelular, sendo portanto, o mais adequado para a produção de 5'-nucleotídeos a partir de extratos celulares de K. marxianus crescidos em soro de queijo.The yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus CBS 6556 was grown on whey to produce nucleotide-rich in yeast extracts. Thermal treatments of cells at 35 or 50o C for 15-30h resulted in yeast extracts containing about 20 g/L protein, with only the second treatment resulting in the presence of small amounts of RNA. In contrast, autolysis in buffered solution was the unique treatment that resulted in release of high amounts of intracellular RNA, being, therefore, the better procedure to produce 5’ -nucletide rich extract with K. marxianus