The performance of plant essential oils against lactic acid bacteria and adverse microorganisms in silage production

Lijuan Chen; Xi Li; Yili Wang; Zelin Guo; Guoming Wang; Yunhua Zhang

doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1285722

The performance of plant essential oils against lactic acid bacteria and adverse microorganisms in silage production

Front Plant Sci. 2023 Nov 10:14:1285722. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1285722. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Lijuan Chen¹, Xi Li¹, Yili Wang¹, Zelin Guo¹, Guoming Wang¹, Yunhua Zhang²

Affiliations

¹ College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China.
² College of Resources and Environment, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China.

Abstract

Plant essential oils have played an important role in the field of antibiotic alternatives because of their efficient bacteriostatic and fungistatic activity. As plant essential oils are widely used, their activity to improve the quality of plant silage has also been explored. This review expounds on the active ingredients of essential oils, their bacteriostatic and fungistatic activity, and mechanisms, as well as discusses the application of plant essential oils in plant silage fermentation, to provide a reference for the development and application of plant essential oils as silage additives in plant silage fermentation feed.

Keywords: active ingredient; bacteriostatic; essential oil; fungistatic; silage.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32172769).