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Table 4.

Alpha-diversity of bacterial community in alfalfa silage inoculated with lactobacillus.

Item	Treatment¹					SEM²	Significances
Item	C	LCO	LCA	LPL	LPE	SEM²	Significances
Shannon	5.47^a	5.55^a	4.96^ab	4.99^ab	4.80^b	0.09	***
Chao 1	819^a	759^b	809^a	799^ab	746^b	8.6	*
ACE	829^a	752^b	808^a	787^ab	750^b	8.7	*
Goods_coverage	0.997	0.997	0.997	0.997	0.998	0.001	ns

C, control; LCO, Lactobacillus coryniformis; LCA, Lactobacillus casei; LPL, Lactobacillus plantarum; LPE, Lactobacillus pentosus.

SEM, standard error of means.

*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001. Means with different letters in the same row indicated a significant difference ns, not significant.