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Background 1 Dec 2004 last update:7 Nov 2006

Bacterial endoxylanase: the all round feed enzyme

Pigs and poultry have difficulties digesting the non-starch-polsaccharides found in cereals. Enzymes can chop these long chain structures into smaller bits. Xylanases seem to be the right enzymes to do this job.

This article can also be found at Feed Tech, volume 8, no. 10

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