TABLE 2.

Significant analysis of wilting, ensiling time, inoculants, and their interactions on fermentation characteristics and the relative abundances of main genera of M. oleifera leaf silage

Characteristic or abundance	P valuea
	W	E	I	W × E	W × I	E × I	W × E × I
Characteristic
Dry matter loss	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01
pH	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01
Lactic acid bacterial content	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01
Coliform bacterial content	NS	<0.01	<0.01	NS	NS	<0.01	NS
Yeast content	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	NS	NS	<0.01
Lactic acid content	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	NS	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01
Acetic acid content	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01
Lactic/acetic acid content	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01
Abundance by genus
Lactobacillus	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01
Lactococcus	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01
Pediococcus	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01
Enterococcus	NS	<0.05	<0.01	<0.01	NS	<0.01	<0.01
Leuconostoc	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01
Enterobacter	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01
Pseudomonas	<0.01	<0.01	NS	<0.01	NS	<0.01	NS
Streptococcus	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Acinetobacter	NS	<0.01	NS	NS	<0.05	NS	<0.01
Xanthomonas	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01

^aW, wilting; E, ensiling time; I, inoculants; NS, not significant.