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Enteric methane mitigation and fermentation kinetics of forage species from Southern Mexico: in vitro screening

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Enteric methane (CH4) emission from ruminant livestock is one of the main sources of greenhouse gases from the agricultural sector worldwide. In tropical regions there is a wide variety of forage species that have the capacity to improve cattle diets and reduce enteric CH4 emissions. A screening trial was conducted to investigate the nutrient and phytochemical composition, total gas and CH4 production of fifteen tropical multipurpose forage species from Southern Mexico. The content of crude protein (CP), neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and gross energy fluctuated among species, from 99.07 to 264.4, from 275.19 to 614.35 g kg−1 dry matter (DM) and from 15.65 to 20.92 MJ kg−1 DM. In vitro digestibility of DM (IVDDM) was lower for the species containing condensed tannins (CT) and fluctuated between 447.44 and 709.94 g kg−1 DM. Bursera simaruba showed the lowest CH4 production (9.077 mg g−1 degraded organic matter) with a CT content of 200 g kg−1 DM. Results suggest that several plant species widely available in Southern Mexico present high potential for mitigating enteric CH4 production and have a high nutritional quality. These species are suitable as additive or supplementary feed to improve diet quality and reduce CH4 emissions in cattle raised under grazing conditions in the tropical regions of the world.

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Acknowledgements

We thank all donors that globally support the work of the CRP programs through their contributions to the CGIAR system. A special thanks to the University of the Jungle, Ocosingo, for facilitating their spaces for the handling of the samples, to the anthropologist Lorenzo Hernandez for his collaboration in fieldwork and translations in Tzeltal and to the chemist Johana Mazabel from the Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Forage Quality of CIAT for making available the personnel and laboratory equipment for analysis.

Funding

This study is part of the LivestockPlus project funded by the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). In addition, this work was also done as part of the Livestock CRP. Thanks to National Science and Technology Council (CONACYT, Mexico) for the funding of the project “Quantification of enteric methane and nitrous oxide emissions in cattle grazing and the design of strategies for its mitigation in Southern Mexico” (SEP-CONACYT CB 2014 No. 242541).

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  1. Department of Agriculture, Society and Environment, College of the Southern Border (ECOSUR), San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico

    Sara S. Valencia-Salazar, Guillermo Jiménez-Ferrer & José Nahed-Toral

  2. Tropical Forages Program, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Valle del Cauca, Colombia

    Jacobo Arango & Ngonidzashe Chirinda

  3. Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Animal Science, Agrarian National University La Molina, Lima, Peru

    Isabel Molina-Botero

  4. Agricultural Innovation and Technology Transfer (AITTC), Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Benguerir, Morocco

    Ngonidzashe Chirinda

  5. I.T. Conkal, National Technological of Mexico, Conkal, Yucatan, Mexico

    Angel Piñeiro-Vázquez

  6. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Yucatan, Merida, Mexico

    Rafael Jiménez-Ocampo & Juan Kú-Vera

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Valencia-Salazar, S.S., Jiménez-Ferrer, G., Arango, J. et al. Enteric methane mitigation and fermentation kinetics of forage species from Southern Mexico: in vitro screening. Agroforest Syst 95, 293–305 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-020-00585-4

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