Table 2.
Apparent ileal digestibility coefficients of crude protein (CP) and essential amino acids (AA) in corn determined at 3 research stations, using station protocols1.
Item | Station 1 | Station 2 | Station 3 | SEM | P-value |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CP | 0.73 | 0.85 | 0.80 | 0.027 | 0.05 |
Arginine | 0.80 | 0.91 | 0.91 | 0.022 | 0.01 |
Histidine | 0.79 | 0.89 | 0.85 | 0.026 | 0.06 |
Isoleucine | 0.75 | 0.88 | 0.79 | 0.040 | 0.11 |
Leucine | 0.87 | 0.93 | 0.87 | 0.023 | 0.13 |
Lysine | 0.63 | 0.83 | 0.79 | 0.036 | 0.05 |
Methionine | 0.84 | 0.92 | 0.86 | 0.029 | 0.16 |
Phenylalanine | 0.79 | 0.90 | 0.83 | 0.031 | 0.08 |
Threonine | 0.62 | 0.77 | 0.73 | 0.023 | 0.05 |
Tryptophan | 0.61 | 0.80 | 0.80 | 0.049 | 0.06 |
Valine | 0.75 | 0.87 | 0.81 | 0.034 | 0.07 |
Average2 | 0.76 | 0.87 | 0.83 | 0.030 | 0.05 |
From Ravindran et al. (2017).
Average of 17 AA.