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. 2019 Nov 1;9(11):908. doi: 10.3390/ani9110908

Table 5.

Least square means of proportions of selected 1 individual milk FA in the two pasture management systems and the three GEs.

FA, g/100g FA System (S) Full-Time Grazing (FT) Part-Time Grazing (PT) SEM p-Values
FT PT GE1 GE2 GE3 GE1 GE2 GE3 S GE S × GE
C4:0 1.45 1.40 1.37 1.51 1.47 1.48 1.43 1.30 0.056 0.418 0.196 0.013
C6:0 1.45 1.30 1.46 1.52 1.36 1.35 1.33 1.23 0.053 0.037 0.005 0.561
C8:0 1.13 0.98 1.28 a 1.14 b 0.98 c 1.02 bc 1.00 bc 0.93 c 0.042 0.009 <0.001 0.004
C10:0 2.36 1.97 2.82 bc 2.43 bcd 1.83 d 2.11 a 2.00 b 1.78 cd 0.010 0.010 <0.001 <0.001
C10:1 c9 0.251 0.196 0.276 a 0.265 a 0.213 b 0.187 b 0.203 b 0.199 b 0.011 0.001 <0.001 <0.001
C12:0 3.00 2.33 3.73 a 2.97 b 2.30 c 2.39 c 2.42 c 2.19 c 0.101 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
C12:1 c9 0.065 0.050 0.054 0.058 0.055 0.042 0.050 0.052 0.002 0.005 0.002 0.067
C14:0 10.71 9.62 11.99 a 10.75 b 9.40 c 9.54 c 9.94 bc 9.37 c 0.268 0.006 <0.001 <0.001
C14:1 c9 1.26 1.11 1.35 a 1.23 b 1.21 b 0.98 c 1.16 ab 1.20 ab 0.058 0.001 0.002 <0.001
C15:0 1.50 1.30 1.53 a 1.50 ab 1.50 ab 1.09 c 1.34 b 1.47 a 0.040 0.008 0.002 <0.001
C15:1 c9 0.365 0.339 0.363 ab 0.340 b 0.392 a 0.286 c 0.350 ab 0.380 ab 0.011 0.017 <0.001 0.001
C16:0 26.2 26.5 27.3 a 27.1 a 24.1 b 27.2 a 26.4 ab 25.7 ab 0.535 0.630 <0.001 0.025
C16:1 c9 0.549 0.522 0.572 a 0.504 b 0.571 a 0.487 b 0.496 b 0.584 a 0.015 0.155 <0.001 <0.001
C17:0 0.851 0.848 0.838 0.810 0.904 0.781 0.818 0.944 0.020 0.867 <0.001 0.120
C17:1 c9 0.283 0.323 0.287 0.253 0.308 0.326 0.288 0.354 0.012 0.012 <0.001 0.818
C18:0 11.1 11.3 9.8 c 10.8 b 12.6 a 11.6 abc 11.5 abc 10.8 abc 0.450 0.678 <0.001 <0.001
C18:1 c9 21.3 24.0 19.4 b 20.5 b 24.0 a 24.1 a 23.4 a 24.5 a 0.620 0.002 0.002 0.004
C18:1 t11 3.07 3.67 2.83 b 3.12 ab 3.27 a 3.73 a 3.58 a 3.71 a 0.153 0.018 0.060 0.017
C18:2 c9, c12 (LA) 1.66 1.91 1.48 c 1.83 ab 1.66 bc 1.76 b 1.94 a 2.03 a 0.061 0.003 <0.001 0.004
C18:2 c9, t11 (CLA) 1.43 1.76 1.51 1.50 1.30 1.60 1.80 1.88 0.126 0.023 0.726 0.209
C18:3n-3 (ALA) 1.102 0.897 0.937 bc 1.237 a 1.133 a 0.784 c 0.849 c 1.054 ab 0.050 0.003 <0.001 <0.001

CLA: conjugated linoleic acid; S: system; SEM: standard error of the mean. 1 For further FA, see Supplementary Table S1. a–d Different superscripts within the same row indicate differences between grazing systems and GEs (p < 0.05).