Assessment of Nutritional Value of Animal Feed Resources
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Farm Animal Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 76
Special Issue Editors
Interests: animal nutrition; proteomics; digestion kinetics of nutrients; silage production; applied microbiology
Interests: animal nutrition; feeds; ruminants nutrition; monogastric animals nutrition
Interests: feed evaluation; physical-chemical properties of feeds; bioactive compounds; antinutritional factors; in vitro and in vivo digestibility
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Feeds are the most important input in animal production and account for up to 70% of total costs. The exponential growth of the world population (predicted to reach 8.5 billion people by 2030) has made it necessary to optimize the cost of animal production and increase the production yield. To maximize the potential use of feeds to meet the needs of animals, it is necessary to know their properties. We believe that the manuscripts published in this Special Issue will contribute to our overall knowledge regarding feeds and the advantages and disadvantages of their use in animal nutrition.
This Special Issue will address the evaluation of different types of feed resources, from primary plant products to crop residues or agro-industrial by-products. The manuscripts included in this Special Issue should present various aspects of the nutritional evaluation of animal resources, from the classical system of proximate analysis to more sophisticated methods involving the identification of different nutrients, degradability and digestibility trials, and microbiological and food safety trials. This Special Issue particularly welcomes the submission of manuscripts combining the evaluation of feed resources and microbiota in the digestive tract. In addition, the evaluation of new protein sources in animal nutrition is also of interest due to the increase in competition regarding the use of proteins in human and animal nutrition. Therefore, we invite our colleagues to present their recent scientific studies in the form of original articles, communications or reviews.
Dr. Marija Duvnjak
Prof. Dr. Darko Grbeša
Dr. Kristina Kljak
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Agriculture is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- animal feed evaluation
- degradability of nutrients
- digestibility of nutrients
- digestion kinetics of nutrients
- bioactive compounds
- antinutritional factors
- microbiota of the digestive tract
- food safety
- new protein resources
