Microbial transfers from permanent grassland ecosystems to milk in dairy farms in the Comte cheese area.

ABSTRACT: The specificity of dairy Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) products is related to their "terroir" of production. This relationship needs better understanding for efficient and sustainable productions preserving the agroecological equilibrium of agroecosystems, especially grasslands. Specificity of PDO Comté cheese was related to the diversity of natural raw milk bacterial communities, but their sources need to be determined. It is hypothesized that raw milk indigenous microbial communities may originate from permanent grazed grasslands by the intermediate of dairy cows according to the sequence soil-phyllosphere-teat-milk. This hypothesis was evaluated on a 44 dairy farms network across PDO Comté cheese area by characterizing prokaryotic and fungal communities of these compartments by

SUBMITTER: Chemidlin Prevost-Boure N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8438085 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature