Chemical and biological evaluation of fifteen triticale cultivars

Fifteen triticale cultivars were chemically analyzed and tested in a feeding trial with weanling rats. Chemical and performance data were statistically analyzed by regressions methods. It was observed that 21 day performance of rats was not correlated to any of several chemical parameters such as dietary lysine, chemical score or essential amino acid index. However, dietary lysine was highly correlated to average daily lysine consumed (r = 0.81) and the latter was correlated to average daily gain (r = 0.63).