[{
  "type": "article-journal",
  "title": "STUDY ON EFFECT OF CHENOPODIUM QUINOA ON GROWTH PERFORMANCE, CARCASS COMPOSITION AND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS AND CYPRINUS CARPIO",
  "author": [
    {
      "family": "Hussain",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Noor",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Khurram",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Hussain",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Arsalan",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Ahmad",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Riaz",
      "given": ""
    }
  ],
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [[2024]]
  },
  "container-title": "Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences",
  "ISSN": "1018-7081",
  "volume": "34",
  "issue": "5",
  "page": "1240-1249",
  "DOI": "https://doi.org/10.36899/JAPS.2024.5.0806",
  "abstract": "<p>Plant-based protein sources are suitable and profitable for aquaculture.&nbsp;<em>Chenopodium quinoa</em>&nbsp;is one of the pseudo-cereal plants and promising source of protein. A 60-day feeding experiment was designed to check the impacts of&nbsp;<em>C. quinoa</em>&nbsp;seed meal (CQSM) on growth indices, carcass composition and antioxidant activity of&nbsp;<em>Oreochromis niloticus&nbsp;</em>and&nbsp;<em>Cyprinus carpio</em>. Six test diets as I, II, III, IV, V and VI were formed by using CQSM as replacement of fishmeal (FM) at 0%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% and 50%, respectively. Triplicate tanks having 15 juveniles in each were used and juveniles were fed at a diet equivalent to 5% of their live wet weight. Digestibility was measured with the help of feces. In<em>&nbsp;O. niloticus&nbsp;</em>and<em>&nbsp;C. carpio</em>, maximum results for weight gain (13.65g), (14.12g), feed conversion ratio (FCR) (0.98), (0.92), weight gain% (168.80), (199.15), and specific growth rate (SGR) (1.63), (1.21), respectively, were seen at level-III (20%) replacement of FM with&nbsp;<em>C. quinoa</em>&nbsp;seed meal based diet. For nutrient digestibility, best results in&nbsp;<em>O. niloticus</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>C. carpio</em>&nbsp;were also noticed at 20% replacement of FM with CQSM as crude protein (CP) (68.59), (66.30), crude fat (CF) (65.82) (65.65) and gross energy (GE) (72.36), (65.60), respectively<em>.</em>&nbsp;The antioxidant activity was maximum: 6.56 for&nbsp;<em>O. niloticus&nbsp;</em>and 7.13 for&nbsp;<em>C. carpio</em> at 20% replacement of FM. The findings indicated that the substitution of FM with CQSM up to 20% has a positive effect on fish growth, carcass composition, antioxidant activity and nutrient digestibility.</p>",
  "publisher": "Pakistan Agricultural Scientists Forum",
  "URL": "https://thejaps.org.pk/AbstractView.aspx?mid=2023-JAPS-1193"
}]