. 2020 Aug 5;98(8):skaa246. doi: 10.1093/jas/skaa246

Table 4.

RA (%) of bacterial families and fungal species in corn silages untreated or treated with an additive containing sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, and sodium nitrite subjected or not to air stress ensiled for 63 d, as analyzed by the sequencing of the V4-V5 region of the 16S rRNA, for bacteria, and ITS1, for fungi, using the Illumina MiSeq platform

	Bacterial families				Fungal species
Item¹	Lactobacillaceae	Enterobacteriaceae	Leuconostocaceae	Acetobacteraceae	C. tropicalis	C. humilis	P. kudriavzevii
Air stress × additive
NS
CTRL	62.03^c	7.30^a	10.26^a	0.02	77.01	0.08^b	1.02^b
SF2	79.76^ab	1.87^b	2.58^b	0.00	49.82	0.05^b	0.55^b
AS2
CTRL	84.28^a	4.02^ab	2.95^b	1.36	21.91	0.04^b	71.51^a
SF2	63.56^bc	4.69^ab	4.56^b	8.99	0.49	98.09^a	0.00^b
Additive means
CTRL	73.16	5.66	6.61	0.69	49.46^a	0.06	36.27
SF2	71.66	3.28	3.57	4.50	25.16^b	49.07	0.27
Air stress means
NS	70.90	4.58	6.42	0.01	63.42^a	0.07	0.78
AS	73.92	4.36	3.75	5.17	11.20^b	49.07	35.76
SEM	5.68	1.14	1.10	2.73	8.25	0.33	5.76
Significance	----------------------------------------------------------- P–value³ -----------------------------------------------------------------
Air stress	0.60	0.85	0.03	0.08	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01
Additive	0.80	0.06	0.02	0.19	0.01	<0.01	<0.01
Air stress × additive	<0.01	0.02	<0.01	0.19	0.73	<0.01	<0.01

¹NS, no air stress; CTRL, control; SF2, Safesil at 2 L/t of fresh forage weight.

²AS, 2 h/wk air stress.

³Means in columns within sections with unlike superscripts differ (P < 0.05).