Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2022, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (10): 2160-2171.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2022.10.10

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Effects of soybean meal addition and fermentation time on nutritional quality and bacterial diversity of Pennisetum purpureum silage

HE Xiu1,2(), XU Meiyu1,2, XIN Weigang1,2, ZHANG Qilin1,2, WANG Feng1,2, LIN Lianbing1,2,*()   

  1. 1. Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
    2. Engineering Research Center for Replacement Technology of Feed Antibiotics of Yunnan College, Kunming 650500, China
  • Received:2022-02-11 Online:2022-10-25 Published:2022-10-26
  • Contact: LIN Lianbing

Abstract:

To study the effect of adding soybean meal silage and different fermentation time on quality and bacterial diversity of Pennisetum purpureum, P. purpureum was used as the research object, control design was adopted in the experiment, with no soybean meal added P. purpureum silage (LSL feed) and 20% soybean meal added P. purpureum silage (HSL feed). Fermented in silage bag for 10 d, 30 d and 60 d, the sensory evaluation, pH value, water content, nutrient content and flora structure were measured. The results showed that the sensory evaluation of both groups of feed during fermentation was high quality. After 30 days fermentation, the sensory evaluation had reached the excellent grade, and the contents of crude protein, ammonia nitrogen/total nitrogen, lactic acid and acetic acid increased significantly (P<0.05). The contents of nutrients decreased at 60 days; the crude protein content in HSL was significantly higher (P<0.05) than that in LSL during silage. After 30 days fermentation, the abundance values of Firmicutes and Lactobacillus in both groups were the highest, but decreased at 60 days, their abundance in HSL feed were higher than those in LSL feed, while the abundance values of Proteobacteria and Enterobacter in HSL feed were lower than those in LSL feed. In conclusion, the addition of 20% soybean meal could effectively improve the silage quality of P. purpureum, promote the growth of Lactobacillus and inhibit the proliferation of harmful bacteria. The suitable silage time of P. purpureum was 30 days.

Key words: soybean meal, Pennisetum purpureum, fermentation time, feed quality, bacterial diversity

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