Davis G R, Campbell S J, McGregor D I
Arch Int Physiol Biochim. 1983 Dec;91(5):443-50. doi: 10.3109/13813458309067992.
Larvae of the yellow mealworm, Tenebrio molitor L., Gembloux strain, race F, were reared on diets in which the protein component was supplied by defatted ground seed, defatted ground dehulled fraction, or defatted ground hulls of Brassica napus L. cv. Tower or Brassica campestris L. cv. Candle, obtained from autoclaved seed. They were also fed casein diets to which defatted ground hulls of Tower or Candle seed were added. Gain in weight was equally good for all diets containing Candle seed fractions and for diets containing Tower ground seed. However, it was lower for diets containing the ground dehulled fraction or the ground hulls of Tower. Addition of Candle hulls or of a mixture of equal proportions (w/w) of Candle and Tower hulls to diets containing dehulled Tower did not improve the gain in weight of larvae, compared with that of larvae fed diets containing the dehulled fraction, alone. Similar additions of Tower hulls or of the mixture to diets containing the dehulled fraction of Candle had no adverse effect on larval gain in weight, compared to that registered by larvae fed the dehulled fraction of Candle. Significant improvement in weight gain in comparison with that recorded for larvae fed the unsupplemented casein diet could not be demonstrated when ground hulls of Tower or Candle were added to this diet. Considered collectively, weight gains of larvae of T. molitor were consistently greater when Candle products were fed than when Tower products provided the protein fraction of the diet.
黄粉虫（黄粉虫属，黄粉虫种，根特菌株，F品系）幼虫以含有蛋白质成分的饲料饲养，这些蛋白质成分由脱脂磨碎的种子、脱脂磨碎的去皮部分或来自高压灭菌种子的甘蓝型油菜品种Tower或白菜型油菜品种Candle的脱脂磨碎的种皮提供。它们也被喂食添加了Tower或Candle种子脱脂磨碎种皮的酪蛋白饲料。对于所有含有Candle种子成分的饲料以及含有Tower磨碎种子的饲料，幼虫体重增加情况同样良好。然而，对于含有Tower去皮磨碎部分或Tower种皮的饲料，幼虫体重增加较低。与仅喂食含有Tower去皮部分饲料的幼虫相比，在含有Tower去皮部分的饲料中添加Candle种皮或等比例（重量/重量）的Candle和Tower种皮混合物，并没有提高幼虫的体重增加。与喂食Candle去皮部分饲料的幼虫相比，向含有Candle去皮部分的饲料中类似地添加Tower种皮或混合物，对幼虫体重增加没有不利影响。当向未添加其他成分的酪蛋白饲料中添加Tower或Candle的磨碎种皮时，与喂食未添加种皮酪蛋白饲料的幼虫相比，体重增加没有显著改善。总体而言，喂食Candle产品时，黄粉虫幼虫的体重增加始终大于喂食Tower产品作为饲料蛋白质部分时的体重增加。
