Improvement of raw potato starch digestion in chickens by feeding oat hulls and other fibrous feedstuffs

1987 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 629 ◽  
Author(s):  
AM Rogel ◽  
D Balnave ◽  
WL Bryden ◽  
EF Annison
Keyword(s):  
Wheat Bran ◽  
Broiler Chickens ◽  
Potato Starch ◽  
Muscular Hypertrophy ◽  
Starch Granules ◽  
Starch Digestion ◽  
Oat Hulls ◽  
Rice Hulls

Ground oat hulls significantly improved the digestion of raw potato starch for male broiler chickens. The improvement was dependent upon the level of oat hulls in the diet and the size of the oat hull particles. Rice hulls and barley hulls were as effective as oat hulls in improving raw potato starch digestion when fibre particles were larger than 1 mm in length. Wheat bran and hemicelluloses isolated from oat hulls had no effect on starch digestion. The improvement in raw potato starch digestion was accompanied by an accumulation of fibre in the gizzard and muscular hypertrophy of this organ. Broken raw potato starch granules were also observed in the gizzard contents.

An Electron Diffraction Study on Litnerized Potato Starch

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 580-581
Author(s):  
Jean-Claude Jésior ◽  
Roger Vuong ◽  
Henri Chanzy
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Electron Diffraction ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Potato Starch ◽  
Image Intensifier ◽  
Electron Diffraction Study ◽  
Starch Granules ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Individual Grains ◽  
Diamond Knife

Starch is arranged in a crystalline manner within its storage granules and should thus give sharp X-ray diagrams. Unfortunately most of the common starch granules have sizes between 1 and 100μm, making them too small for an X-ray study on individual grains. There is only one instance where an oriented X-ray diagram could be obtained on one sector of an individual giant starch granule. Despite their small size, starch granules are still too thick to be studied by electron diffraction with a transmission electron microscope. The only reported study on starch ultrastructure using electron diffraction on frozen hydrated material was made on small fragments. The present study has been realized on thin sectioned granules previously litnerized to improve the signal to noise ratio.Potato starch was hydrolyzed for 10 days in 2.2N HCl at 35°C, dialyzed against water until neutrality and embedded in Nanoplast. Sectioning was achieved with a commercially available low-angle “35°” diamond knife (Diatome) after a very carefull trimming and a pre-sectioning with a classical “45°” diamond knife. Sections obtained at a final sectioning angle of 42.2° (compared with the usual 55-60°) and at a nominal thickness of 900Å were collected on a Formvar-carbon coated grid. The exact location of the starch granules in their sections was recorded by optical microscopy on a Zeiss Universal polarizing microscope (Fig. 1a). After rehydration at a relative humidity of 95% for 24 hours they were mounted on a Philips cryoholder and quench frozen in liquid nitrogen before being inserted under frozen conditions in a Philips EM 400T electron microscope equipped with a Gatan anticontaminator and a Lhesa image intensifier.

Cereal grain digestion by selected strains of ruminal fungi

1993 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. A. McAllister ◽  
Y. Dong ◽  
L. J. Yanke ◽  
H. D. Bae ◽  
K.-J. Cheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Corn Starch ◽  
Fungal Growth ◽  
Wheat Starch ◽  
Cereal Grains ◽  
Starch Granules ◽  
Starch Digestion ◽  
Protein Matrix ◽  
Cereal Grain ◽  
Neocallimastix Patriciarum ◽  
Grain Starch

The ruminal fungi Orpinomyces joyonii strain 19-2, Neocallimastix patriciarum strain 27, and Piromyces communis strain 22 were examined for their ability to digest cereal starch. All strains digested corn starch more readily than barley or wheat starch. Orpinomyces joyonii 19-2 exhibited the greatest propensity to digest starch in wheat and barley, whereas the digestion of these starches by N. patriciarum 27 and P. communis 22 was limited. Media ammonia concentrations were lower when fungal growth was evident, suggesting that all strains assimilate ammonia. Fungi formed extensive rhizoidal systems on the endosperm of corn, but O. joyonii 19-2 was the only strain to form such systems on the endosperm of wheat and barley. All strains penetrated the protein matrix of corn but did not penetrate starch granules. Starch granules from all three cereals were pitted, evidence of extensive digestion by extracellular amylases produced by O. joyonii 19-2. Similar pitting was observed on the surface of corn starch granules digested by N. patriciarum 27 and P. communis 22, but not on wheat and barley starch granules. The ability of ruminal fungi to digest cereal grains depends on both the strain of fungus and the type of grain. The extent to which fungi digest cereal grain in the rumen remains to be determined.Key words: ruminal fungi, cereal grain, starch digestion, ruminant.

scholarly journals USE OF FORMALDEHYDE TO REGULATE DIGESTION OF BARLEY STARCH

1990 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 581-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. A. McALLISTER ◽  
K.-J. CHENG ◽  
L. M. RODE ◽  
J. G. BUCHANAN-SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Volatile Fatty Acids ◽  
Rumen Bacteria ◽  
Starch Granules ◽  
Endosperm Cell ◽  
Starch Digestion ◽  
Protein Matrix ◽  
Fermentation Efficiency ◽  
Formaldehyde Treatment ◽  
Scanning Electron ◽  
Anaerobic Media

This study was conducted to determine the effect of formaldehyde treatment of barley on the rate of microbial starch digestion. Ground barley was left untreated (UB) or treated with 0.5% formaldehyde (TB) and incubated in vials with an inoculum consisting of a homogenate of rumen contents and Bryant's anaerobic media (1:1). Separate vials were analyzed for starch, ammonia, pH and volatile fatty acids (VFA) after 0, 4, 8, 12, 18, 24, 36 and 48 h. The digestion of starch was lower (P < 0.05) in TB than in UB between 4 and 24 h. Accumulation of NH3 was lower and pH was higher in TB vials (P < 0.05) than in UB vials. VFA production and fermentation efficiency were lower (P < 0.05) in TB than in UB. Formaldehyde treatment of barley reduced (P < 0.05) the production of propionate and enhanced (P < 0.05) the production of butyrate in comparison with UB. Examination by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) showed that the initial colonization of TB was inhibited in comparison with that of UB. The distinct shape of the endosperm cells of TB (12 h) were readily recognizable, but the endosperm cells of UB (12 h) were not readily distinguishable. SEM of TB (24 h) showed that the protein matrix of the endosperm cell is resistant to microbial digestion. The formaldehyde-induced reduction in starch digestion appears to result from the protein matrix inhibiting the access of bacteria to underlying starch granules. Key words: Starch, rumen bacteria, formaldehyde, barley

scholarly journals Arabinoxylooligosaccharides from Wheat Bran Inhibit Salmonella Colonization in Broiler Chickens

2008 ◽  
Vol 87 (11) ◽  
pp. 2329-2334 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Eeckhaut ◽  
F. Van Immerseel ◽  
J. Dewulf ◽  
F. Pasmans ◽  
F. Haesebrouck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wheat Bran ◽  
Broiler Chickens

Effect of bulky diets based on wheat bran or oat hulls on reproductive performance of sows during their first two parities1

1994 ◽  
Vol 72 (7) ◽  
pp. 1754-1760 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. J. Matte ◽  
S. Robert ◽  
C. L. Girard ◽  
C. Farmer ◽  
G.-P. Martineau
Keyword(s):  
Wheat Bran ◽  
Reproductive Performance ◽  
Oat Hulls

scholarly journals Miniaturized Analysis of Amylopectin Chain Length Distribution by Fluorescence-Assisted Capillary Electrophoresis (FACE) down to Single Starch Granules

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
amandine pruvost ◽  
stanislas helle ◽  
nicolas szydlowski ◽  
Christian ROLANDO
Keyword(s):  
Capillary Electrophoresis ◽  
Chain Length ◽  
Solid Phase ◽  
Potato Starch ◽  
Relative Proportion ◽  
Length Distribution ◽  
Fluorescence Analysis ◽  
Starch Granules ◽  
Chain Length Distribution ◽  
Single Granule

In the present work, we developed a miniaturized method for determining amylopectin chain length distribution (CLD) by fluorescence-assisted capillary electrophoresis (FACE). The method relies on single granule entrapping into capillaries followed by direct starch gelatinization and amylopectin debranching on carbograph-based solid phase extraction (SPE) cartridges. Sample desalting on HypersepTM tips following APTS-labelling and the use of nanovials allowed for the fluorescence analysis of weakly diluted samples. Consequently, method sensitivity was improved by 500-fold which is compatible with the analysis of single potato starch granules. The method was implemented to determine CLD profiles of single starch granules ranging from 50 to 100 µm in diameter. In these experiments, the relative proportion of starch glucans of up to 30 degrees of polymerization (DP) could be quantified.

scholarly journals Gelatinization Behavior of Potato Starch Granules through Coupling Two Kinds of Amino Acids

2008 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaoru Kinoshita ◽  
Azusa Ito ◽  
Makoto Hattori ◽  
Tadashi Yoshida ◽  
Koji Takahashi
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Potato Starch ◽  
Starch Granules

Effect of Acid Modification on the Properties of Potato Starch Pastes and Starch Film

2011 ◽  
Vol 287-290 ◽  
pp. 2648-2651
Author(s):  
Wen Yu Wang ◽  
Xin Jin ◽  
Shuan Qing Hou ◽  
Yu Feng Zhang ◽  
Xiao Xu Sha
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Thermal Properties ◽  
Treatment Time ◽  
Potato Starch ◽  
Amorphous Region ◽  
Starch Granules ◽  
Acid Modification ◽  
Crystallization Region ◽  
Starch Films

The effect of acid modification using 1mol/L HCl on viscosity, thermal properties and mechanical properties of potato starch pastes and starch film were investigated. After acid modification, the surface of starch granules did not show more roughness and viscosity of starch pastes become lower. The results of DSC indicated that acid should act on amorphous region of starch firstly and would act on the crystallization region with the longer treatment time. In the very close viscosity scope, the mechanical properties of starch films were increased obviously after acid modification.

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