Fibrolytic enzymes and microbial inoculants have the potential to improve the value of sorghum feedstuff and feedstock. An experiment was conducted to determine nutritive value, ensiling characteristics, and in situ disappearance kinetics of 4 sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) silage varieties: Dairy Master BMR (DBMR; brown midrib; Richardson Seed, Vega, TX), PS 747 (PS; photoperiod sensitive; Pogue...

Yearling cattle (n = 25; 416.1 +/- 25.9 kg) were stratified by weight and gender across five groups. Group 1 (OAT) was offered oat/rape haylage (ORH) for ad libitum consumption during two daily feeding periods. Group 2 (SPURGE) was offered leafy spurge/grass haylage (LSGH) for ad libitum consumption during the same feeding periods. Group 3 was offered ORH in an amount equal to the average amoun...

Two experiments were conducted using laboratory mini-silos to study the effect of ensiling and silage additives on fatty acid (FA) composition, including minor or unusual FA, of ryegrass and corn silages. Ryegrass was ensiled for 12 wk with no additives, with the addition of a bacterial inoculant or formic acid. Corn was ensiled for 9 wk without additives, with the addition of a bacterial inocu...

Abstract Background For well over a century, rhizobia have been recognized as effective biofertilizer options for legume crops. This has led to the widespread use of rhizobial inoculants in agricultural systems, but recurring issue emerged: applied struggle provide growth benefits largely attributed presence soil and termed ‘rhizobial competition problem.’ Scope Microbiome engineering emerged m...

The burgeoning global market for soil microbial inoculants use in agriculture is being driven by pressure to increase sustainable crop production managing pests and diseases without environmental impacts. Microbial inoculants, based predominantly on bacteria fungi, are applied as alternatives conventional inorganic fertilizers (biofertilizers) or carry out specific functions including biocontro...

Film-coating of seeds is a widely accepted technology in agriculture for effectively protecting germinating and seedlings against biotic abiotic stresses successfully delivering agro-chemicals, biomolecules, bio-inoculants to the rhizosphere region. The present experiments explored possibility using hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) dextrin as film-coating agents impregnating maize seed with...

The influence of broomrape infection and microbial inoculants (Rhizo-Vam Basic®, Mycoplant® Funky Fungi®) on the mineral composition oriental tobacco was studied in a pot experiment. Eight treatments were tested, distributed following four groups: (1) control; (2) treatment with infection; (3) mycorrhizal (4) broomrape+mycorrhizal inoculants. Broomrape reduced dry weight leaves by 31.4% compare...