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. 2023 Jul 14;13(14):2305. doi: 10.3390/ani13142305

Table 2.

Nutritional quality of CG, CWP, and LL grown in monocultures or in mixtures 1.

Item CG CWP LL CG+CWP CG+LL CG+CP+LL SEM p-Value
DM, % 31.8 ab 26.5 c 31.3 ab 28.8 bc 32.7 ab 30.3 ab 1.36 0.03
Ash, % DM 13.6 c 16.6 a 15.4 ab 14.6 bc 16.0 a 14.0 bc 0.70 0.01
CP, % DM 15.7 d 20.1 a 18.7 ab 18.4 b 16.6 cd 17.4 bc 0.49 <0.01
aNDFom, % DM 55.2 a 36.2 d 40.0 cd 45.0 bc 47.4 b 46.1 b 1.92 <0.01
ADFom, % DM 32.0 a 24.0 c 25.7 c 28.4 bc 29.6 ab 28.7 b 1.07 <0.01
ADL, % DM 5.00 5.41 5.35 5.99 5.61 5.15 0.59 0.73
ADL, % aNDFom 9.3 14.8 13.6 13.5 11.6 10.9 1.56 0.21
WSC, % DM 7.4 8.6 7.9 7.2 7.2 7.6 0.38 0.11

1 CG = crabgrass; CWP = cowpea; LL = lablab; CG+CWP = crabgrass + cowpea; CG+LL = crabgrass + lablab; CG+CWP+LL = crabgrass + cowpea + lablab. Means with different superscripts in the same row differ (p < 0.05).