Design, development and evaluation of a fully automated system for gas production measurement and microbial fermentative kinetic of feeds

Document Type : Research Paper

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Associated Professor, Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran


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