Butterfly Pea (Clitoria ternatea) Plants Nutrient Content and In Vitro Digestibility at Different Harvest Ages at the Second Defoliation

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10.2991/absr.k.220401.002How to use a DOI?

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Butterfly pea; Harvest age; Nutrient content; In vitro digestibility

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the butterfly pea nutrient content and dry matter and organic matter in vitro digestibility with different harvest ages, fertilized with NPK at 80 kg/ha dosage. This study used butterfly pea, which was cut at different ages in the second defoliation. There were four treatments, namely the harvest age of 30 days (P1), 40 days (P2), 50 days (P3), and 60 days (P4), to determine the best age to cut the plants properly. Data were analyzed by one-way of variance analysis and were processed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23. The variables observed were the levels of dry matter, organic matter, crude protein, crude fiber, crude lipid, and the digestibility of the butterfly Pea plant’s dry matter and organic matter. The analysis showed that P4 (24.79%) performed the highest dry matter content and was significantly different (P <0.05) with P1 (19.65%), P2 (21.63%), and P3 (23.71%). Treatment P4 (22.2%) had the highest crude fiber content and significantly different (P> 0.05) with P1 (16.78%), P3 (17.68%), and P4 (18.36%). The highest dry matter digestibility of the Butterfly Pea plant was found in P1 (70.09%) and was not significantly different from P2 (69.61%), P3 (68.88%), and different from P4 (65.28%). The content of organic matter, crude protein, crude lipid, and organic matter digestibility in Butterfly Pea plants were not significantly different at P1, P2, and P3 but significantly different at P4. This study concluded that the best age for cutting the butterfly pea plant with 80 kg/ha fertilizer based on its digestibility was 30 to 50 days of harvest age.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nafiatul Umami
AU  - Wardi Wardi
AU  - Renata Lukman Nisa
AU  - Bambang Suhartanto
AU  - Nilo Suseno
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/11
TI  - Butterfly Pea (Clitoria ternatea) Plants Nutrient Content and In Vitro Digestibility at Different Harvest Ages at the Second Defoliation
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science (ISANFS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 6
EP  - 10
SN  - 2468-5747
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/absr.k.220401.002
DO  - 10.2991/absr.k.220401.002
ID  - Umami2022
ER  -