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Record W4410019053 · doi:10.1093/jambio/lxaf103

Influence of <i>Bacillus licheniformis</i> B4 fermentation on soybean meal nutritional value and early weaned pig growth performance

2025· article· en· W4410019053 on OpenAlexafffund
Josh Milmine, Lauren Fletcher, Kai‐Hsiang Chang, Young‐Hoon Kang, Minhua Sun, Jessica Churcher, Yashu Song, Robert Patterson, Elijah G. Kiarie, Julang Li

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Applied Microbiology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicAnimal Nutrition and Physiology
Canadian institutionsCanadian Bio-Systems (Canada)University of Guelph
FundersMinistry of Agriculture, Food and Rural AffairsNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaOntario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
KeywordsBacillus licheniformisFermentationSoybean mealBiologyAnimal scienceFood scienceFeed conversion ratioMealBody weightBacteriaBacillus subtilis

Abstract

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AIM: This study aimed to examine B4's fermentation efficiency and the growth performance of newly weaned pigs fed B4 fermented soybean meal (B4-FSBM). METHOD AND RESULTS: Soybean meal (SBM) was inoculated with B4 and fermented at room temperature for 48 hours. Following fermentation, analysis was performed to examine anti-nutritional factor degradation efficiency. Fermentation broke down large molecular weight proteins, consistent with sizes of glycinin and β-conglycinin into smaller proteins. Crude protein significantly increased from 51.5% to 56.5%. Neutral detergent fiber (NDF) was reduced by 26.9% (P < 0.05), while the phytate phosphorus content was reduced by 59.16% (P < 0.05) in B4-FSBM. In the animal trial, 90 newly weaned piglets were divided into three groups, receiving either the negative control (NC; 25.4% SBM), positive control (PC; 25.4% SBM supplemented with 3000 mg/kg zinc oxide), or B4 (B4; 19% FSBM, 6.4% SBM). There was a temporary setback in growth performance for pigs fed B4-FSBM during the early weeks. However, their growth performance improved, and by the fourth week, their gain-to-feed ratio was significantly improved when compared to the control groups. Additionally, pigs fed B4-FSBM had increased (P < 0.05) crude protein digestibility compared to the NC for weeks 3 and 4. CONCLUSIONS: Fermentation of SBM with B4 improves feed efficiency and protein digestibility in weaned pigs.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.719
Threshold uncertainty score0.213

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.198
Teacher spread0.192 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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