Table 4. Formula that calculate lysine content of soybean meal and corn from crude protein content
Ingredient
Linear regression equation Lysine/% CP content1)
Standard error
Correlation coefficient
Dehulled soybean meal (N = 175)
Y = 0.264 + 0.60(X)
0.175
0.57
Corn (N = 95)
Y = 0.049 + 0.026(X)
0.018
0.66
Y = A + BX: where Y = % amino acid, A = intercept, B = slope, X = % CP content.