Bromatological chemical characteristics of the culture of the remaining plants babycorn

SUMMARY The objective of this study was evaluate the nutritional value, histological sections and in vitro digestibility of maize plants harvested at the stage 90 days after planting. The treatments comprised five maize plant types: a hybrid AG1051 and four open-pollinated cultivars, and two harvest approaches: whole maize plants and maize plants without cobs. The maize varieties used were: Alagoano, Branquinha, St. Louis and Viçosence. The treatments were fitted into a randomized block design with three replicates in a split plot scheme, with maize varieties as main plots and harvest approaches as subplots. Among the varieties selected, those that had higher values for CP in maize plants without cobs were the Alagoano and Viçosence cultivars. For NDT in maize plants without cobs the varieties that had best results (P