Table 7.
Amino acid profile of Longissimus dorsi of beef cattle offered alternative corn silage-based diets
| Items | Treatment | p-value | |||
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| WPCS | WPCSW | CS | SCS | ||
| Asparagine | 3.70±1.56 | 4.22±2.70 | 4.83±3.83 | 3.11±1.05 | 0.739 |
| Glutamine | 7.86±1.87 | 7.32±2.07 | 6.48±5.02 | 6.23±2.05 | 0.822 |
| Serine | 1.92±0.45 | 1.84±0.52 | 1.58±1.16 | 1.57±0.59 | 0.829 |
| Glycine | 3.22±0.91 | 3.93±0.97 | 2.69±1.54 | 2.96±1.20 | 0.794 |
| Histidine | 2.58±0.72 | 2.68±0.95 | 2.14±1.52 | 2.21±0.95 | 0.820 |
| Arginine | 4.18±0.96 | 4.08±1.08 | 3.40±2.26 | 3.42±1.05 | 0.743 |
| Threonine | 2.40±0.53 | 2.31±0.58 | 1.93±1.38 | 2.13±0.91 | 0.857 |
| Alanine | 3.95±0.99 | 4.06±1.08 | 3.16±1.73 | 3.36±0.94 | 0.596 |
| proline | 4.04±1.30 | 4.19±1.23 | 3.22±1.40 | 4.00±1.93 | 0.736 |
| Tyrosine | 4.94±2.05 | 3.85±0.80 | 3.05±1.35 | 4.66±1.34 | 0.205 |
| Valine | 1.14±0.31 | 1.08±0.20 | 0.83±0.49 | 1.04±0.42 | 0.713 |
| Methionine | 3.66±0.96 | 3.67±0.98 | 2.98±1.77 | 3.24±0.91 | 0.766 |
| Cysteine | 1.02±0.36 | 0.95±0.28 | 0.80±0.48 | 0.86±0.22 | 0.748 |
| Isoleucine | 2.69±0.71 | 2.75±0.68 | 2.24±1.29 | 2.61±0.84 | 0.817 |
| Leucine | 5.59±1.79 | 5.59±1.56 | 4.54±2.38 | 5.21±1.67 | 0.794 |
| Phenylalanine | 2.17±0.62 | 2.18±0.56 | 1.74±0.92 | 2.18±0.83 | 0.729 |
| Lysine | 3.79±1.32 | 3.44±0.92 | 2.73±1.84 | 3.65±1.14 | 0.621 |
| Essential amino acid | 21.44±5.89 | 21.03±5.32 | 17.01±10.01 | 20.07±6.76 | 0.766 |
| Total amino acid | 58.85±14.09 | 57.60±15.58 | 48.36±29.75 | 52.45±15.45 | 0.825 |
WPCS, whole plant corn silage-based diet; WPCSW, mixed forages-based diet was formulated by substituting a portion of whole plant corn silage with wheat straw; CS, corn stalklage-based diet; SCS, sweet corn stalklage-based diet.