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- Title
Nutritive value of Barley Varieties assessed with the Confused Flour Beetle.
- Authors
LOSCHIAVO, S. R.; MCGINNIS, A. J.; METCALFE, D. R.
- Abstract
PLANT breeders have no objective means of determining feeding quality of new cereal lines early in a breeding programme. A laboratory test that is simple, inexpensive, and requires only a few grams of sample is therefore highly desirable. Insects have been used to assay both food and fodder1-5, and so it seemed that the confused flour beetle, Tribolium confusum, which normally lives in dry ground cereal, might be a suitable organism for assessing feeding value of cereals. Rate of larval development was the major criterion.
- Publication
Nature, 1969, Vol 224, Issue 5216, p288
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/224288a0