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The Use of Probiotic Strains as Silage Inoculants

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Acosta, Yunior·2012·Probiotic in Animals
DOI 10.5772/50431
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The Use of Probiotic Strains as Silage Inoculants 3 Picture 1. Compacting of corn whole plant for silage in a South African farm (Y.Acosta Aragón) 3. Stable phase: Fermentation ceases due to a lack of carbohydrate substrates, and the pH remains constant, depending on the anaerobic conditions created.4. Feed out phase: Once the silo is opened and during feeding, portions of the silage are exposed to oxygen (Picture 2).Aerobic micro-organisms, primarily yeasts and molds, will grow, consume dry matter (sugar, lactic acid and other chemical substances), and cause heating and high losses (CO2 and H2O).This phase is decisive because the nutrient losses could be considerably high.Aliphatic short chain acids (acetic, propionic and butyric acid) [10] inhibit the growth of yeasts and molds and that is why biological inoculants containing heterofermentative bacteria are used.The response to additives depends not only on the forage to be treated, but also the dry matter (DM) content [11], sugar content, and buffering capacity of the original material [12].The characteristics of inoculants include a rapid growth rate (to compete with other micro-organisms), tolerance of low pH, ability to reduce pH quickly, non-reactivity towards organic acids, tolerance towards a wide temperature range, ability to grow in high DM materials, absence of proteolytic activity and an ability to hydrolyze starch.In recent years, producers have begun to pay more attention to silage additives, [13] which have been the focus of a tremendous amount of research over the last 20 years.Some of this research has focused on increasing the nutritional value of silage by improving fermentation

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Acosta, Y.
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Acosta, Yunior
Venue
Probiotic in Animals
Publisher
InTech
Published
2012-10-03
DOI
10.5772/50431
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W1486691445
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7
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56
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Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agronomy and Crop Science › Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Probiotics and Fermented Foods
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Animal Science and Zoology › Animal Nutrition and Physiology
Keywords
probiotic strains, silage inoculants, silage additives, silage fermentation, heterofermentative bacteria, short-chain fatty acids, silage nutritive value

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