Table 1.

Effect of selected fungi on the reduction of gossypol levels during solid substrate fermentation of CSM

Treatment	FG (mg/(kg DM))	Detoxification efficiency (%)	CP (%DM)	CP increase percentage (%)
Substrate (control)	549.06±9.87a	−	23.79±0.11c	−
C. capsuligena ZD-1	145.51±10.02c	73.50	25.92±0.23b	8.95
C. tropicalis ZD-3	29.80±5.28f	94.57	26.35±0.34b	10.76
S. cerevisae ZD-5	63.07±7.38e	88.51	26.43±0.09b	11.10
A. terricola ZD-6	93.87±9.93d	82.91	26.21±0.17b	10.17
A. oryzae ZD-7	178.39±8.86b	67.51	26.04±0.14b	9.46
A. niger ZD-8	81.50±4.77d	85.16	29.08±0.21a	22.24

Means in a column without common superscript differ significantly (P<0.05)