Animal Bioscience

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  • Pages.1672-1679
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  • 2025
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  • 2765-0189(pISSN)
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  • 2765-0235(eISSN)
아세아태평양축산학회 (Asian Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies)
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Effects of nitrate in combination with lactate on rumen fermentation and methane production in an in vitro batch culture

  • Beomseok Bae (Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University) ;
  • Logan Pope (Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University) ;
  • Kiyeon Park (Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University) ;
  • Chanhee Lee (Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University)
  • 투고 : 2025.01.10
  • 심사 : 2025.02.20
  • 발행 : 2025.08.01
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Objective: This in vitro study determined the combination effect of nitrate and lactate on nitrate reduction, rumen fermentation and methane production. We hypothesized that the combination decreases methane production and enhances nitrate reduction. Methods: An in vitro batch culture was conducted to determine the 2 main factors of nitrate and lactate in 2×2 factorial arrangement: a basal diet (CON), the basal diet supplemented with nitrate (2.2% in dietary dry matter [DM]; Nit), lactate (2.2%; Lact), or the combination of nitrate and lactate (Nit-Lact). Rumen fluids from lactating Holstein cows were obtained and mixed with McDougall's buffer for the in vitro batch culture. Total gas production, methane production, pH, volatile fatty acid (VFA), NH3-N, NO3-N and NO2-N concentration, and DM digestibility were determined. Results: A trend of interaction between nitrate and lactate was observed for DM digestibility (p = 0.06), which occurred because DM digestibility tended to decrease for Nit compared with CON (42.2 vs. 45.3%) but did not for Nit-Lact. Nitrate decreased (p<0.05) methane (25.6 vs. 31.0 mL at 24 h) and total gas production (296 vs. 313 mL at 24 h). Total VFA production was not affected by treatments. However, nitrate increased the proportion of acetate (p<0.01) and decreased (p<0.01) proportions of propionate, butyrate and valerate at 24 h of incubation. However, lactate increased valerate at 24 h of incubation (p<0.01). The concentration of NO3-N for Nit-Lact was lower than that of Nit (41.2 vs. 51.0 mg/L; p<0.01) at 3 h of incubation. Conclusion: Nitrate decreased methane production. The combination of nitrate and lactate had beneficial effects on DM digestibility and nitrate reduction, compared with nitrate alone although no interaction between nitrate and lactate was shown for VFA production and methane production. Changes in the major VFA by nitrate indicated that nitrate acted as an alternative electron acceptor to decrease methane production.

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Authors thank all staff at Krauss Dairy Research Center (The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH) for animal handling. Gratitude is also extended to Phyllis Dieter and Donna Wyatt (The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH) for assistance with laboratory analysis.

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