Min Wang, a scientist at the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, is developing a mathematic description methane emission model which can separate basal methane emissions largely resulting from the slowly degraded fraction of diet and feeding methane emissions mainly resulting from the fast degradable fraction. This model also can describe daily change of methane emissions. He used their data obtained from lactating dairy cows and found that 70% of total methane emissions were from the basal emissions. I am thinking to apply this model to our data to see if the ratio of two parts of emissions from sheep fed chicory or brassicas changes in comparison with pasture. 

If it is allowed, I would like to get your permission to provide him some original data from published work (Sun et al., 2011; Sun et al., 2012a; Sun et al., 2012b) for analysis with involvement of David Pacheco, Peter Janssen and Xuezhao Sun.  

Sun, X.Z., Hoskin, S.O., Muetzel, S., Molano, G., Clark, H., 2011. Effects of forage chicory (Cichorium intybus) and perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) on methane emissions in vitro and from sheep. Animal Feed Science and Technology 166-167, 391-397.
Sun, X.Z., Hoskin, S.O., Zhang, G.G., Molano, G., Muetzel, S., Pinares-PatiÃ�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â±o, C.S., Clark, H., Pacheco, D., 2012a. Sheep fed forage chicory (Cichorium intybus) or perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) have similar methane emissions. Animal Feed Science and Technology 172, 217-225.
Sun, X.Z., Waghorn, G.C., Hoskin, S.O., Harrison, S.J., Muetzel, S., Pacheco, D., 2012b. Methane emissions from sheep fed fresh brassicas (Brassica spp.) compared to perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne). Animal Feed Science and Technology 176, 107-116.

If analysis of our data with his model is published, PGgRc and MPI will be acknowledged. The analysis could be linked with the methane modelling work funded NZAGRC.

This ROI is copied from ROI80 in which the funding sources were not correctly ticked for some reason.