Maria Francesch

Author details:1 IRTA, Animal Nutrition, Mas Bové, 43120 Constantí, Catalonia, Spain; 2 IRTA, Animal Health, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Campus de la Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain; 3 IRTA, Animal Welfare, Finca Camps i Armet, 17121 Monells, Catalonia, Spain; 4 IRTA, Animal Breeding and Genetics, Torre Marimon, 0814 ...

I. IntroductionIn all vegetable-based diets such as wheat, corn and soybean meal, up to 83% of dietary phosphorus (P) is bound to phytate (Li et al., 2016; Aureli et al., 2017). Phytate is known to contain bound P that is unavailable to the broilers, resulting in the use of inorganic-P sources such as monocalcium phosphate and dicalcium phosphate (NRC, 1994) in order to fulfill the broiler P requi ...