tailieunhanh - Use of diploid and tetraploid hulled wheat genotypes for animal feeding

Einkorn and emmer wheat are still cultivated in the mountainous areas of Turkey. They are resistant to biotic and abiotic stress conditions and are routinely used as food stuffs due to reasonable dietary fiber rate and vitamin and micronutrient content. | Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry Research Article Turk J Agric For (2014) 38: 838-846 © TÜBİTAK doi: Use of diploid and tetraploid hulled wheat genotypes for animal feeding 1, 2 3 1 Mahmut KAPLAN *, Taner AKAR , Adem KAMALAK , Sancar BULUT Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey 2 Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey 3 Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Sütçü İmam University, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey 1 Received: Accepted: Published Online: Printed: Abstract: Einkorn and emmer wheat are still cultivated in the mountainous areas of Turkey. They are resistant to biotic and abiotic stress conditions and are routinely used as food stuffs due to reasonable dietary fiber rate and vitamin and micronutrient content. Therefore, the present study was conducted to determine the feed potential of einkorn and emmer wheat populations. A total of 17 hulled wheat populations collected from different provinces of Turkey were studied during the years 2012 and 2013. Experiments were carried out in randomized complete block design with 3 replications to investigate grain yield, harvest index, chemical composition, and gas and methane production of the grain. Grain yield varied between and t ha–1, harvest index between and , crude protein (CP) between and , neutral detergent fiber (NDF) between and , acid detergent fiber (ADF) between and , crude oil (CO) between and , crude ash (CA) between and , metabolizable energy (ME) between and Mcal kg–1 DM, organic matter digestibility (OMD) between and , and gas production (GP) between and mL. While einkorn populations had higher ME, OMD, CP, and CO content values, emmer wheat populations