Table 6.
Effect of bagasse and fermented sugarcane bagasse feeding on the alpha diversity of rumen bacteria.
| Items | CON | SB | FSB | SEM | p-value1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OUTs | 2457.75a | 2562.50a | 2140.00b | 63.67 | 0.003 |
| Shannon index | 8.43 | 8.59 | 8.04 | 0.10 | 0.069 |
| Simpson index | 0.99 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.00 | 0.402 |
| Chao1 index | 2528.12a | 2633.23a | 2206.40b | 63.77 | 0.002 |
| ACE index | 2622.79ab | 2734.71a | 2297.29b | 65.01 | 0.002 |
| Goods_coverge/% | 98.97 | 98.93 | 99.03 | 0.00 | 0.247 |
1Differences between means were considered significant when the p-value of the ANOVA F-test was less than 0.05. a-bMean values in the same row with different superscripts are significantly different (p < 0.05).