Microbial dynamics during aerobic exposure of corn silage stored under oxygen barrier or polyethylene films

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 7499-7507

  Dolci, Paola ^a   Tabacco, Ernesto ^a   Cocolin, Luca ^a   Borreani, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETOBACTER PASTEURIANUS; AEROBIC STABILITY; AIR EXPOSURE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CONVENTIONAL POLYETHYLENES; CORN SILAGE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; LACTOBACILLUS BUCHNERI; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; MICROBIAL DYNAMICS; MICROBIAL ENUMERATION; OXYGEN BARRIERS; OXYGEN PERMEABILITY; PCR-DGGE; PLASTIC BAGS; POLYETHYLENE FILM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SHELF LIFE;

ASPERGILLUS; BACILLI; ELECTROPHORESIS; OXYGEN; PLASTIC CONTAINERS; POLYETHYLENES; RNA; THERMOPLASTICS;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIAL DNA; FUNGAL DNA; OXYGEN;

BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROKINESIS; ETHYLENE; FERMENTATION; FUNGUS; MAIZE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OXIC CONDITIONS; OXYGEN; PERMEABILITY; POLYMER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; SILAGE; YEAST;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FUNGUS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; SILAGE;

AEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGI; MOLECULAR TYPING; OXYGEN; SILAGE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 83155163759     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.05050-11     Document Type: Article

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