Table 2.
Dry matter content (DM, g/kg) and chemical composition (g/kg DM) of the diets.
| Parameters (n = 1,360) |
NG | NGD | PG | PGD | RMSE | Significance1 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | L | G × L | ||||||
| DM | 156.6 | 196.1 | 238.5 | 241.4 | 37.4 | *** | *** | *** |
| CP | 124.5 | 153.1 | 157.9 | 169.1 | 11.7 | *** | *** | *** |
| OM | 861.7 | 862.4 | 882.3 | 872.8 | 12.3 | *** | *** | *** |
| NDF | 386.3 | 431.0 | 329.3 | 426.6 | 39.8 | *** | *** | *** |
| ADF | 372.6 | 300.0 | 323.8 | 300.7 | 32.6 | *** | *** | *** |
n = the number of observations; NG = Napier grass; NGD = Napier grass + Desmodium distortum; PG = Brachiaria brizantha cv. Piatá grass; PGD = B. brizantha + Desmodium distortum; RMSE = root mean standard error; CP = crude protein; OM = organic matter; NDF = neutral detergent fibre; ADF = acid detergent fibre.
***: P < 0.001.
1
Effects of grass (G), legume (L) and G × L.