Modification of methane emission in sheep by cysteine and a microbial preparation

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 204, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 117-123

  Takahashi, J ^a,b   Chaudhry, A S ^a   Beneke, R G ^a   Suhubdy, ^a   Young, B A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

L Cysteine; Lucerne; Methane; Microbes; Sheep

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; METHANE;

AIR POLLUTANT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BOVIDS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SACCHAROMYCES; SHEEP; STREPTOMYCES;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CYSTEINE; FERMENTATION; FOOD ADDITIVES; MALE; METHANE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RUMEN; SACCHAROMYCES; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BOVIDAE; MEDICAGO SATIVA; OVIS ARIES; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SACCHAROMYCES; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES ALBIDOFLAVUS;

EID: 0030803121     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(97)00162-9     Document Type: Article

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