Table 7. Digestibility of non-essential amino acids according to dietary crude protein and additional Phytase levels

Treatments ALA (%) ASP (%) CYS (%) GLU (%) GLY (%) PRO (%) SER (%) TYR (%)
CP (%) Phytase (FTU/kg)
20 1,000 70.3a 81.9a 68.4 88.4a 62.9ab 80.6ab 83.5ab 80.9
800 60.5b 74.7bc 66.1 83.4cd 49.7c 73.2c 76.9bcd 76.2
500 71.7a 81.4a 73.4 87.2abc 62.6ab 80.8ab 81.2abc 81.0
19 1,000 65.7ab 78.5abc 73.0 87.7ab 63.3ab 81.6ab 82.1abc 81.0
800 72.6a 80.7ab 72.6 87.5ab 66.8a 83.2a 82.6ab 81.9
500 70.0a 81.1a 71.7 87.6ab 63.0ab 79.7abc 82.4ab 81.3
18 1,000 59.0b 73.1c 71.3 83.8bcd 52.3bc 75.1bc 75.8cd 76.3
800 70.0a 81.1a 71.7 87.6ab 63.0ab 79.7abc 82.4ab 81.3
500 70.7a 81.2a 74.0 87.9ab 66.8a 81.9ab 83.8a 82.4
SEM1 5.66 3.98 4.45 2.57 7.54 4.55 4.09 3.87
Crude protein
20 67.5 79.3 69.3 86.3 58.4 78.2 80.5 79.3
19 69.4 80.1 72.4 87.6 64.3 81.5 82.3 81.4
18 63.7 75.6 70.7 84.8 57.4 76.7 78.1 77.9
SEM3 6.89 4.81 4.79 2.99 8.79 5.23 4.73 4.23
Phytase
1,000 65.0 77.8ab 70.9 86.6ab 59.5 79.1 80.4 79.4
800 64.8 76.0b 68.5 84.5b 56.6 76.5 78.1 77.7
500 70.8 81.2a 73.0 87.6a 64.1 80.8 82.5 81.5
SEM2 6.72 4.71 4.58 2.93 8.78 5.32 4.71 4.17
P-Value
Crude protein 0.13 0.06 0.29 0.08 0.13 0.09 0.11 0.14
Phytase 0.06 <0.05 0.07 <0.05 0.12 0.16 0.09 0.09
Phytase × CP <0.01 <0.01 0.13 <0.05 <0.05 <0.05 <0.05 0.06
SEM, standard error of means (n = 36).
SEM, standard error of means (n = 12).
SEM, standard error of means (n = 12).
Means in same rows with different superscripts are significantly different (P<0.01, P<0.05).