Research Article
The Effect of Saturated Fatty Acids on Methanogenesis and Cell Viability of Methanobrevibacter ruminantium
Table 2
Methane inhibition rate, K+ efflux, and cell viability in cell suspensions treated with different saturated fatty acids at 10 μg/mL in Experiment (; means ± standard error).
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Treatment means with unequal superscripts are different at P < 0.05. 1Calculated from methane production rate (μmol/mg cell DM/min) in percent of the value of the control group after 3 and 24 h, respectively. 2Percentage of live cells (green) of total cells (green, yellow, and red) as determined with the LIVE/DEAD BacLight Kit. |