. 2022 Aug 25;13:950587. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.950587

Table 10.

Effects of dietary peNDF_>1.18 level on the prediction of rumen fungal functional guilds.

Items		Dietary peNDF _>1.18¹					SEM	p -value
		32.97%	29.93%	28.14%	26.48%	24.75%
Trophic mode	Fun guild	Guild OTU richness (%)
Symbiotroph	Fungal parasite	12.67^b	11.31^b	8.25^c	15.75^a	10.94^b	0.68	< 0.001
	Arbuscular mycorrhizal	1.73^a	0.69^c	1.21^b	1.54^a	0.56^c	0.12	< 0.001
	Ectomycorrhizal	3.16^a	0.74^c	2.01^b	1.17^a	2.11^c	0.23	< 0.001
	Animal endosymbiont	11.95^b	21.32^a	10.01^b	10.89^b	7.36^c	1.29	< 0.001
Saprotroph	Wood saprotroph	14.73^b	12.76^b	14.30^b	20.64^a	9.99^b	1.01	< 0.001
	Soil saprotroph	6.17^b	6.08^b	5.75^b	9.33^a	4.92^b	0.46	0.002
	Undefined saprotroph	3.04^a	2.35^b	1.49^c	2.86^a	2.15^b	0.15	< 0.001
Pathotroph	Animal pathogen	47.40^ab	38.34^bc	28.62^c	53.06^a	37.36^bc	2.42	< 0.001
	Plant pathogen	4.42^ab	4.34^b	3.48^b	5.95^a	3.58^b	0.27	< 0.001

Different dietary peNDF_>1.18 (particle size >1.18 mm) contents of 32.97, 29.93, 28.14, 26.48, and 24.75% were obtained by chopping or crusher crushing the forage into the following lengths: long (7 cm), medium (4 cm), short (1 cm), fine (5 mm sieve), very fine (1 mm sieve).

Different letters^a−c denote p < 0.05.