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Table 4 Effects of treatments on the degradability of DMD, and nitrate and nitrite concentrations in ruminal culture

From: Nitrate decreases methane production also by increasing methane oxidation through stimulating NC10 population in ruminal culture

 

Treatments

SEM

P value

Control

NaNO3

NH4Cl

NaNO3 + NH4Cl

DMD (%)

54.60

53.54

54.22

52.93

0.368

0.422

NDFD (%)

46.57

48.39

46.73

49.12

0.423

0.053

ADFD (%)

32.40

33.44

32.27

34.03

0.396

0.372

Nitrate (mM)

0.74Ba

1.94A

0.82Ba

0.92Ba

0.150

<0.001

Nitrite (mM)

0.16

0.18

0.16

0.13

0.007

0.183

  1. Values with different lowercase and capital superscripts in the same row differ significantly at P < 0.05 and P < 0.01, respectively