This study was performed with growing chickens (14 to 56 days of age) to evaluate the effects of feeding a barley-based diet. The treatments were maize diet (1) as a control, barley diet with (4) or without (2) the commercial enzyme β-glucanase, barley treated with rumen fluid without protozoa (3) and hulless barley (5). The effects of treatments were investigated in a 42-day trial using 360 se...

Isolated non-starch polysaccharides (NSP), especially isolated β-glucan, are reported to have prebiotic effects in pigs. However, little information is available on their possible functional properties when they are still present in the fibrous matrix of whole cereals. Hulless barleys (hB) are rich but variable sources of β-glucan. In order to evaluate their potential as functional feeds, an in...

Barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.) has a storied history as food crop, and it long been dietary staple of peoples in temperate climates. Contemporary research studies have focused mostly on hulled barley for malt animal feed. As such, nitrogen (N) seeding rate agronomic data naked are lacking. In this study, we evaluated the effects N ß-glucan protein content, phenotypic characteristics barley, inclu...

The Neolithic way of life was first established in Northwest Anatolia before the middle 7th millennium BC. recently excavated sites Barcın Hoyuk and Bahcelievler have yielded archaeological evidence for earliest levels region provide new archaeobotanical datasets. To compare different adaptations to changes brought on by Neolithization processes, we studied 348 samples from Phases VIe VId1 at 6...

Grain β-glucan content is the most important attribute for barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) varieties destined for the human food market. This trait is important because of the blood glucose and cholesterol-reducing properties of β-glucans. High levels of grain protein content, test weight, and seed size and endosperm color may also add value. Seed yield potential, in part, determines the economic f...

Energy is an important component of poultry feed and is derived principally from cereal grains. Unfortunately, all of the chemical energy is not available to the bird, and biological assays must be used to determine the digestible energy value of a cereal grain. The bioassay described uses four pens of six male broiler chicks, complete diets containing 80% of a test cereal grain (with or withou...