Microbial Diversity under Forage Silage Fermentation
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Microbial Diversity and Culture Collections".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2022) | Viewed by 2985
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Silage; Microbial community; Lactic acid bacteria; Fermentation; Endophytes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ensiling is a common way to preserve the moist forage crop, which could prolong the storage time and improve the feed palatability via lactic acid fermentation. During ensiling process, various kinds of microorgansims are involved in silage fermentaion, and their structure and diversity greatly influenced the end-product quality. The interactions and selection between microorganisms produce specific metabolic patterns during ensiling. Therefore, study on microbial community structure, function and succession process is vital to understanding silage fermentation.
Nowadays, the rapid development of metagenomics, microbial culturomics and transcriptomics techniques has allowed us to delve into microbial diversity, contributing to give a completeness view of culturable and nonculturable silage-associated bacteria. Therefore, a deeper insight into the microbial diversity during ensiling process remains a challenging subject for improving silage quality and develop new silage additives.
This Special Issue is seeking contributions including comprehensive reviews and experimental research about the microbial diversity of the fermentation process and interactions amongst microbial species/groups or microbial ecology of forage silages.
Dr. Kuikui Ni
Dr. Linna Guo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microbial community
- spoilage microorganisms
- microbial inoculant
- metabolome
- microbial interaction
- fermentation products
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