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. 2021 Feb 15;5(2):txab029. doi: 10.1093/tas/txab029

Table 6.

Effects of dietary enzyme supplementation on improvement (%) of growth performance of pigs fed corn–soybean meal- or with corn distillers dried grains with solubles (cDDGS)-based diets from multivariable mixed modelsa

Enzyme typeb
Single Multi Phytased Pig BWe P valuef
Item, % Xyl Man Pro Car Cock SEc + SE Nursery G-F SE ENZ PHY BW
Corn–SBM-based diets
Studies 4 6 2 8 3 16 6 10 13
Observations 6 13 6 20 9 45 9 22 32
 ADG 2.48abc 1.50bc 7.29**a 0.97c 2.64*ab 1.53 3.31** 2.64 1.12 3.00** 2.96** 1.02 0.05 0.68 0.98
 ADFI –0.53 –0.50 0.51 –0.93 1.53 1.14 –0.44 0.47 0.84 –0.48 0.51 0.79 0.12 0.46 0.34
 G:F 3.10 1.83 6.84** 2.17 1.65 1.64 3.55** 2.64 1.30 3.67** 2.52* 1.20 0.10 0.66 0.47
cDDGS-based diets
Studies 3 1 2 3 5 9 4 8 6
Observations 7 2 3 7 11 21 9 21 9
 ADG 1.64 3.32** 2.33 2.54 3.20** 1.26 2.26** 2.95** 0.84 2.51 2.70** 1.01 0.70 0.36 0.91
 ADFI –0.48 –0.42 1.77 1.25 0.45 1.27 0.52 0.51 0.87 0.68 0.36 1.01 0.60 0.99 0.84
 G:F 3.01** 2.82** 1.35 0.97 2.82** 1.17 2.12** 2.26** 0.76 2.62* 1.77* 0.83 0.73 0.86 0.44

a– cLeast square means with a different superscript are significantly different (P < 0.05).

**Mean values differ from 0 (P < 0.01).

*Mean values differ from 0 (P < 0.05).

aImprovement = (enzyme – control)/control × 100%.

bDifferent combination of enzymes: single (Xyl = xylanase, Man = mannanase, or Pro = protease), and multi (Car = mixture of carbohydrases; Cock = cocktail mixture of protease plus single or multiple carbohydrases).

cStandard error.

dSupplementing carbohydrases/protease in the presence (+) or absence (–) of phytase in the diet.

ePig BW = nursery (nursery pigs, <25 kg BW) and G–F (growing–finishing pigs, >25 kg BW).

fProbability value of enzyme (ENZ), phytase (PHY), and pig BW (BW).