Abstract
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of bacterial inoculants on fermentation rate and quality of corn silage. There are five lactic acid bacteria (LAB) isolated from corn silage; Lactobacillus buchneri, L. hilgardii, L. kefiri, L. oris and L. rhamnosus which were applied at ~107-108 cfu/g of fresh corn forage. The inoculated chopped corn forage was stored in approximately 12 kg-capacity polyester containers for 14, 21 and 28 days. The temperature, pH, nutrient composition and aerobic stability was determined. Inoculation LAB improved the fermentation characteristics, increased nutrient digestibility and improved aerobic stability of corn silages. The bacterial inoculants did not significantly (P>0.05) decreased pH values of the corn silages. Addition of bacterial inoculants to corn silages increased its crude protein content significantly (P<0.05) with time. However, adding bacterial inoculants also significantly (P<0.05) decreased the neutral detergent fiber content with time. After 21 days, the process of fermentation appeared to be complete for all treatments. Among the five lactic acid bacteria used, L. buchneri was identified as the best inoculants for ensiling of corn forage.
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Claim · model-written summary
Lactic acid bacteria inoculation improved the fermentation characteristics of corn silage.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse0 - Treatment
- Inoculation LABe1
- Interactor
- LABe1symbiont
- Outcome
- fermentation characteristicse1
- Direction
- improvede1
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e0“The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of bacterial inoculants on fermentation rate and quality of corn silage”
e1“Inoculation LAB improved the fermentation characteristics, increased nutrient digestibility and improved aerobic stability of corn silages”
Claim · model-written summary
Lactic acid bacteria inoculation increased nutrient digestibility of corn silage.
- Taxon
- cornZea mays subsp. mayse0
- Treatment
- Inoculation LABe1
- Interactor
- LABe1symbiont
- Outcome
- nutrient digestibilitye1
- Direction
- increasede1
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e0“The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of bacterial inoculants on fermentation rate and quality of corn silage”
e1“Inoculation LAB improved the fermentation characteristics, increased nutrient digestibility and improved aerobic stability of corn silages”
Claim · model-written summary
Lactic acid bacteria inoculation improved aerobic stability of corn silage.
- Taxon
- cornZea mays subsp. mayse0
- Treatment
- Inoculation LABe1
- Interactor
- LABe1symbiont
- Outcome
- aerobic stabilitye1
- Direction
- improvede1
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e0“The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of bacterial inoculants on fermentation rate and quality of corn silage”
e1“Inoculation LAB improved the fermentation characteristics, increased nutrient digestibility and improved aerobic stability of corn silages”
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Addition of bacterial inoculants increased crude protein content of corn silage with time.
- Taxon
- cornZea mays subsp. mayse2
- Treatment
- Addition of bacterial inoculantse2
- Outcome
- crude protein contente2
- Direction
- increasede2
- Qualifier
- with timee2
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e0“The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of bacterial inoculants on fermentation rate and quality of corn silage”
e2“Addition of bacterial inoculants to corn silages increased its crude protein content significantly (P<0.05) with time”
Claim · model-written summary
Bacterial inoculants decreased neutral detergent fiber content of corn silage with time.
- Taxon
- cornZea mays subsp. mayse0
- Treatment
- adding bacterial inoculantse3
- Outcome
- neutral detergent fiber contente3
- Direction
- decreasede3
- Qualifier
- with timee3
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e0“The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of bacterial inoculants on fermentation rate and quality of corn silage”
e3“adding bacterial inoculants also significantly (P<0.05) decreased the neutral detergent fiber content with time”
Claim · model-written summary
Bacterial inoculants did not significantly change the pH values of corn silage (decreased only without significance).
- Taxon
- cornZea mays subsp. mayse0
- Treatment
- bacterial inoculantse4
- Outcome
- pH valuese4
- Direction
- decreasede4
- Qualifier
- did not significantly (P>0.05)e4
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e0“The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of bacterial inoculants on fermentation rate and quality of corn silage”
e4“The bacterial inoculants did not significantly (P>0.05) decreased pH values of the corn silages”
Claim · model-written summary
Fermentation of corn silage appeared complete after 21 days for all treatments.
- Taxon
- cornZea mays subsp. mayse0
- Outcome
- process of fermentatione5
- Qualifier
- After 21 dayse5
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e0“The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of bacterial inoculants on fermentation rate and quality of corn silage”
e5“After 21 days, the process of fermentation appeared to be complete for all treatments”
Claim · model-written summary
L. buchneri is the best of five lactic acid bacteria inoculants for ensiling corn forage.
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e6“Among the five lactic acid bacteria used, L. buchneri was identified as the best inoculants for ensiling of corn forage”
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