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Du S, You S, Jiang X, Li Y, Wang R, Ge G, Jia Y. Evaluating the fermentation characteristics, bacterial community, and predicted functional profiles of native grass ensiled with different additives. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:1025536. [PMID: 36329844 PMCID: PMC9623271 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1025536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 09/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Bioaugmentation of native grass ensiling with Lactobacillus plantarum or Lactobacillus buchneri or Pediococcus pentosaceus on the ensiling performance and bacterial community was investigated after 30 days of the fermentation process. The native grass was inoculated with distilled water, Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus plantarum, and Lactobacillus buchneri, and Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus buchneri, and Pediococcus pentosaceus as the CON treatment, T1 treatment, T2 treatment, and T3 treatment, respectively. The addition of lactic acid bacteria was added at a total of 1 × 106 colony-forming unit/g of fresh weight. As expected, the markedly (p < 0.05) lower water-soluble carbohydrate content was tested in the T2 and T3 treatments compared to the CON and T1 treatments. Compared to the CON and T1 treatment, significantly (p < 0.05) higher crude protein content, and lower acid detergent fiber and neutral detergent fiber contents were found in the T2 and T3 treatments. Compared to the CON treatment, the pH significantly (p < 0.05) decreased in the lactic acid bacteria (LAB) inoculated silage, and the lowest pH was measured in the T3 treatment. Similarly, significantly higher lactic acid and acetic acid contents were also found in the T3 treatment compared to those in other treatments. After 30 days of ensiling, the Shannon and Chao1 indexes in silages decreased compared to that in the fresh materials (FMs). The principal coordinate analysis indicated that both FM and silage were distinctly separated in each treatment with no interactions on the confidence ellipse (R = 0.8933, p = 0.001). At the phylum level, the dominant phylum was shifted from Proteobacteria to Firmicutes after the fermentation process. Interestingly, Weissella dominated the fermentation in the CON treatment and Lactobacillus dominated the fermentation in all inoculated LAB silages at the genus level. Results of functional prediction analyses showed that the metabolism of amino acid, cofactors, and vitamins, and membrane transport was reduced, while the metabolism of nucleotide and majority carbohydrates was increased after ensiling. The complex LAB (Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus buchneri, and Pediococcus pentosaceus) exhibited the potential possibility to decrease pH and enhance the relative abundance of LAB in response to obtaining high-quality silage by the synergistic effects. These results suggested that the complex LAB could improve the ensiling performance of native grass silage, and lay a theoretical basis for inoculant application in native grass.
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- Shuai Du
- National Engineering Laboratory of Biological Feed Safety and Pollution Prevention and Control, Key Laboratory of Molecular Nutrition, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Feed, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science of Zhejiang Province, Institute of Feed Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Shuai Du
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- Key Laboratory of Forage Cultivation, Processing and High Efficient Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Resources and Environment, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China
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- Institute of Grassland Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hohhot, China
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- Institute of Grassland Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hohhot, China
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- Inner Mongolia Yihelvjin Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., Chifeng, China
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- Key Laboratory of Forage Cultivation, Processing and High Efficient Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Resources and Environment, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China
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- Key Laboratory of Forage Cultivation, Processing and High Efficient Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Resources and Environment, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China
- Yushan Jia
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Zhang Y, Tao X, Liu Q, Zhang YJ, Xu J, Zhang W, Wang J, Zhang D, Li B, Wang L, Cheng J, Zhang YQ. Succession changes of fermentation parameters, nutrient components and bacterial community of sorghum stalk silage. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:982489. [PMID: 35992672 PMCID: PMC9386229 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.982489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2022] [Accepted: 07/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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To better understand the ensiling characteristics of sorghum stalk, the dynamic changes of fermentation parameters, nutrient components and bacterial community of sorghum stalk silage were analyzed by intermittently sampling on day 0, 1, 3, 7, 14, 28, and 56 of ensiling duration. The results showed that high-moisture sorghum stalk was well preserved during ensiling fermentation, with the DM loss of 4.10% and the little difference between the nutrients of sorghum stalk before and after ensiling. The pH value of silage declined to its lowest value of 4.32 by Day 7 of ensiling, and other fermentation parameters kept steady since Day 28 of ensiling. The amplicon sequencing analysis revealed that the alpha diversity parameters of silage bacterial community including Shannon index, observed features, Pielou evenness and Faith PD gradually declined (P < 0.01) with ensiling duration. Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) revealed that bacterial profiles of raw material would experience a succession becoming a quite different community during ensiling fermentation. Taxonomic classification revealed a total of 10 and 173 bacterial taxa at the phylum and genus level, respectively, as being detected with relative abundances higher than 0.01% and in at least half samples. LEfSe analysis revealed that 26 bacterial taxa were affected by sampling timepoint (P < 0.05 and LDA score > 4). When focusing on the dynamic trend of silage bacterial taxa, lactic acid bacteria successfully dominated in the bacterial community on Day 1 of ensiling, and the bacterial community almost came to a plateau by Day 28 of ensiling, with Lactobacillus and Leuconostoc as the dominant genera. In a word, the succession of fermentation parameters, nutrient components and bacterial community indicate a successful dominance establishment of LAB and a fast advent of fermentation plateau, suggesting that high-moisture sorghum stalk can be ensiled directly, but the pH of mature silage is a little high.
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- Yawei Zhang
- College of Animal Science, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan, China
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- College of Animal Science, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan, China
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- Sorghum Research Institute, Shanxi Agricultural University, Jinzhong, China
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- College of Animal Science, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan, China
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- College of Animal Science, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan, China
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- College of Animal Science, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan, China
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- College of Animal Science, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan, China
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- College of Animal Science, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan, China
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- College of Animal Science, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan, China
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- College of Animal Science, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan, China
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- College of Animal Science, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan, China
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- College of Animal Science, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan, China
- *Correspondence: Yuan Qing Zhang,
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