Quality of grass silage depending on epiphytic lactic acid bacteria
1991
Mueller, T. (Institute of Forage Production, Paulinenaue (Germany)) | Fehrmann, E. | Seyfarth, W. | Knabe, O.
The success of the silage conservation process depends not only on the number, but also on the composition and metabolic activity at the epiphytic LAB-population on the material ensiled. A population of only heterofermentative LAB is hardly able to produce enough lactic acid to achieve a well preserved silage, because the heterolactic pathway is ineffective to ferment the sugar available in grass. Adverse conditions of the epiphytic LAB-population in numbers or/and composition are possible to overcome by adding an active inoculant consisting of only one strain of Lactobacillus plantarum.
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