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Effects of latitude and harvest time on FA composition and phytoestrogen concentrations on four organically managed forage species

In an ongoing collaboration, the seasonal dynamics of herbage tocopherols, carotenoids, ligning and ash content and herbage carbohydrate and crude protein fractions and digestibility in timothy, meadow fescue, red clover and birdsfoot trefoil are investigated together with plant development and plant morphology investigations on three sites (SLU-Umeå, Sweden), (SLU, Skara, Sweden) and (DIAS-Foulum, Denmark). From this experiment, already collected samples can be used in the proposed study to investigate site and harvest time effects on FA composition and concentration of phyto-oestrogenes. From each site we have freeze dried plant material from two years harvested at 9 different harvest times (3 in first cut and 2*3 in regrowth) that are separated in pure species.

 

Progress of work

 

The freeze dried samples are planned to be analysed for fatty acids and phyto-oestrogenes in spring 2009.

Here we are planning when the samples can be analysed.

Sören is responible for the analysis.
Coordination of European Transnational Research in Organic Food and Farming