Table 2 Chemical composition after physical treatment of wheat straw – interaction of wetting and autoclaving.

From: In vitro ruminal degradability of wheat straw cultivated with white-rot fungi adapted to mushroom farming conditions

Wetting

Dry

Remoistened

Remoistened

Drained

Drained

SEM

p-value

Autoclaving

W*A

Autoclaving

No

No

Yes

No

Yes

n

6

3

4

6

5

Wetting

ADFom [g/kg DM]

408

443c

449c

469b

494a

2.291

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

0.015

Ratios

 Cellulose/ADL

6.99

8.52a

6.57b

6.44b

6.35b

0.142

0.001

0.002

0.005

 ADL/ADFom

0.126

0.105b

0.132a

0.135a

0.137a

0.0024

0.005

0.017

0.038

  1. ADFom acid detergent fibre exclusive of residual ash, ADL acid detergent lignin. SEM: standard error of the mean. Variance analysis excluding the untreated control. Treatments with different letters are significantly different (t-test, p < 0.05).
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