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  • Title: Production of N2 and N2 O from nitrate ingested by sheep.
    Author: de Raphélis-Soissan V, Nolan JV, Godwin IR, Newbold JR, Eyre BD, Erler DV, Hegarty RS.
    Journal: J Anim Physiol Anim Nutr (Berl); 2018 Feb; 102(1):e176-e182. PubMed ID: 28603910.
    Abstract:
    Supplementing ruminants with nitrate (NO3-) reduces their enteric methane (CH4 ) emissions; however, the greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation achieved can be partially offset by small emissions of nitrous oxide (N2 O), a more potent GHG. Sheep were dosed intraruminally with 15 NO3- to investigate whether dietary NO3- is a precursor of N2 O and/or di-nitrogen gas (N2 ), and to quantify the amounts of NO3- recovered as N2 O and N2 in gas emissions from sheep adapted or not adapted to dietary NO3-. Ruminally cannulated sheep were adapted to a hay diet supplemented with NO3- (n = 3; 10 g NO3-/kg DM) or urea (n = 3; 5.3 g urea/kg DM). On the day of the experiment all sheep were dosed intraruminally with 15 NO3- and quickly moved into gas-tight chambers to enable recovery of 15 N in N2 O and N2 to be measured. Measurements of gases accumulating in the chambers were made over 10 successive 50 min periods; this enabled the amount of N2 O produced, and the recovery of 15 NO3--N in N2 O and N2 to be determined over a total of 10 hr. Only 0.04% of labelled NO3--N was recovered as N2 O, and this was not dependent (p > .05) on whether or not the animals had been adapted to dietary NO3-. Approximatively 3% of 15 NO3--N was recovered as 15 N2 , which was also not dependent (p > .05) on whether sheep had been adapted to NO3-. Because the kinetics of rumen ammonia (NH3 ) were uncertain, the recovery of 15 N from NO3- in rumen NH3 could not accurately be quantified, but our results suggest that approximately 76% of dietary NO3- was converted to NH3 in the rumen. We conclude that the small amount of NO3- recovered in N2 was evidence of denitrification, previously thought not to occur in the rumen.
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