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Dioxane treatment to improve microbial digestibility of cellulosic fibers
Applied Microbiology
|May 1, 1975
Abstract:
The hemicelluloses of grass seed straws can be extracted rather completely by acid detergent, but the treated residue (acid-detergent fiber) is normally not digested by rumen microorganisms. This residue can be made digestible if it is treated with acidic dioxane.

