Maria Francesch

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 ...