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Table 4.

In vitro rumen microbial populations of whole-plant corn silage

Items	Treatments¹				SEM²	P-value
Items	Control	MTD/1	ATCC14917	CICC24194	SEM²	P-value
Total bacteria, log₁₀ copies/mL	8.93^a	8.88^a	8.74^b	8.41^c	0.010	< 0.001
Fungi, log₁₀ copies/mL	6.16^a	5.77^b	5.29^c	4.99^d	0.026	< 0.001
Methanogens, log₁₀ copies/mL	8.12^a	7.98^a	7.98^a	7.43^b	0.041	0.001
Protozoa, log₁₀ copies/mL	6.22^a	5.73^b	5.35^bc	5.16^c	0.042	< 0.001

¹Control, distilled water; MTD/1, MTD/1 treatment; ATCC14917, ATCC14917 treatment; CICC24194, CICC24194 treatment

²SEM Standard error of the means

^a−dMeans within the same row with different superscript letters differ (P < 0.05)