Effect of growing regions on morphological characteristics, protein subfractions, rumen degradation and molecular structures of various whole-plant silage corn cultivars

• Xinyue Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xinyue Zhang, Nazir Ahmad Khan

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China, State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Beijing Engineering Technology Research Center of Raw Milk Quality and Safety Control, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0602-2636

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• Nazir Ahmad Khan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xinyue Zhang, Nazir Ahmad Khan

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Nutrition, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5969-8616

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• Enyue Yao,

  Roles Investigation, Software

  Current address: Gushi Biological Group, Harbin, China

  Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China

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• Fanlin Kong,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Beijing Engineering Technology Research Center of Raw Milk Quality and Safety Control, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4324-6188

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• Ming Chen,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, National Maize Improvement Center of China, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Rifat Ullah Khan,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Animal Nutrition, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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• Xin Liu,

  Roles Visualization

  Current address: Wellhope Shenyang Ruminant Feed Company Limited, Shenyang, China

  Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China

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• Yonggen Zhang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China

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• Hangshu Xin

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

  * E-mail: hangshuxin@neau.edu.cn

  Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China

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