Isolation and Identification of High Lactic Acid Producer Bacteria from Forage and Their Silages Grown in Different Ecologies

In total, 695 Lactic acid bacteria isolation was made from forage crops grown in a wide part of Turkey's rangeland flora and their silages. A big majority of isolated strains (531) could regenerate. All regenerated isolates were incubated in MRS agar media containing CaCO3 in order to determine their total organic acid production. Selected 70 isolates according to their organic acid production were incubated in MRS broth media and their lactic acid productions were determined. High lactic acid producer 10 isolates were selected among treated isolates and they were identified using BIOLOG device in terms of their individual usage of different carbohydrate source during incubation period.