Effects of Bacillus coagulans and Lactobacillus plantarum on the fermentation quality, aerobic stability and microbial community of triticale silage

Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture

Table 4 Analysis of triticale silage's alpha diversity after ensiling

Items	No LP²		LP		SEM⁴	Effect (p-value)
Items	No BC¹	BC	No BC	BC	SEM⁴	LP	BC	LP × BC³
Shannon	1.90^a	1.35^c	0.89^d	1.79^b	0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01
Ace	127^c	400^a	306^b	105^c	12.97	0.20	0.06	< 0.01
Chao 1	113^c	315^a	205^b	93.6^c	3.38	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01
Coverage	0.99	0.99	0.99	0.99	0.00	0.24	0.12	< 0.01

¹BC Bacillus coagulans 21,735 (China center of industrial culture collection, CICC 21735)
²LP commercial Lactobacillus plantarum
³LP × BC, an interaction effect of inoculated LP and BC
⁴SEM standard error of the means
^a⁻^dMeans of inoculation treatments within a row with different superscripts differ (P < 0.05)