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Opaque-2 and Normal Corn Supplemented with Soybean-Meal and/or Amino Acids for Growing Rats^{1, 2,}

University of Missouri, Columbia^,4

Abstract

TWO experiments were conducted with growing rats to evaluate diets containing normal or opaque-2 corn supplemented with soybean meal and/or lysine, methionine tryptophan and aspartic acid. The average daily gain and gain/feed of rats fed the opaque-2 corn diets were slightly, although not significantly, superior to those of rats fed the normal corn diets. Performance of the rats was not significantly (P<.05) influenced by level of dietary protein (14 vs. 17%). Normal and opaque-2 corn diets supplemented with lysine, methionine and tryptophan apparently were deficient in isoleucine, valine, threonine and possibly phenylalanine.

¹ Contribution from the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station, Journal Series Number 6209. This research was supported in part by a grant from Farmland Industries, Kansas City, Mo.

² We are indebted to Pioneer Seed Corn Co. and Northrup King and Co. for supplying the opaque-2 corns used in experiments 1 and 2, respectively. Thanks are extended to Merck Sharp and Dohme for supplying the L-lysine and to Hoffman-Taft for supplying the D-L methionine.

³ Present address: Farm and Home Administration, Eldon, Mo.

⁴ Department of Animal Husbandry.