Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture

Table 6 Alpha-diversity of bacterial diversity of amaranth silage

From: Evaluation of the fermentation performance and functional properties of bacterial communities of amaranth silage supplemented with Limosilactobacillus fermentum and Latilactobacillus graminis

Items	YLS	AhSCK	AhSLP	AhSLF	AhSLG	SEM	p-value
OTUs	55.8333c	94.8333b	109.5000ab	79.1667bc	129.6667a	12.63	0.0006
ACE	64.8553c	224.9584a	130.7388b	137.8942b	166.4252b	26.01	0.0002
Chao1	62.7195c	152.4080ab	130.4236ab	124.7025b	163.6675a	17.52	< 0.0001
Simpson	0.7747a	0.3876b	0.7666a	0.4012b	0.6499ab	0.09	0.0088
Shannon	2.5582ab	1.6501b	3.2548a	1.4932b	2.9462a	0.35	0.0173
Coverage	0.99915a	0.9961b	0.9972b	0.9970b	0.9961b	0.00	0.0023

Different lowercase letters indicate significant differences among different treatments (p < 0.05); same letter indicate not significant (p > 0.05)

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