Supplementation of barley straw with Sesbania pachycarpa leaves in vitro: Effects on fermentation variables and rumen microbial population structure quantified by ribosomal RNA-targeted probes

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 445-453

  Muetzel, S ^a   Hoffmann, E M ^a   Becker, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gas test; Microbial biomass; Ribosomal RNA probes

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIUM; BARLEY; CATTLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; EUKARYOTE; FED BATCH FERMENTATION; FERMENTATION; FUNGUS; GAS; HIGH FIBER DIET; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEGUME; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PLANT LEAF; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA PROBE; RUMEN MICROORGANISM; RUMINOCOCCUS;

ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FERMENTATION; HORDEUM; RNA, BACTERIAL; RUMEN; RUMINANTS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; EUKARYOTA; FIBROBACTER; FUNGI; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; RUMINOCOCCUS; RUMINOCOCCUS ALBUS; RUMINOCOCCUS FLAVEFACIENS; SESBANIA;

EID: 0037987936     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/BJN2002813     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Amann RI, Krumholz L & Stahl DA (1990) Fluorescent oligonucleotide probing of whole cells for determinative, phylogenetic and environmental studies in microbiology. Journal of Bacteriology 172, 762-770.
2. Association of Official Analytical Chemists International (1990) Offical Methods of Analysis, 15th ed., Arlington, VA: AOAC.
3. Atasoglu C, Valdes C, Newbold CJ & Wallace RJ (1999) Influence of peptides and amino acids on fermentation rate and de novo synthesis of amino acids by mixed micro-organisms from the sheep rumen. British Journal of Nutrition 81, 307-314.
4. Blümmel M & Becker K (1997) The degradability characteristics of fifty-four roughages and roughage neutral-detergent fibres as described by in vitro gas production and their relationship to voluntary feed intake. British Journal of Nutrition 77, 757-768.
5. Blümmel M, Makkar HS & Becker K (1997a) In vitro gas production - A technique revisited. Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition 77, 24-34.
6. Blümmel M, Paul C, Goodchild A & Becker K (1996) Grinding energy and in vitro gas technique for the assessment of Syrian barley straws - Physical and microbial degradation and voluntary feed intake by sheep. Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition 76, 132-140.
7. 15N incorporation and its implications for the prediction of voluntary feed intake of roughages. British Journal of Nutrition 77, 911-921.
8. Bonsi MLK, Osuji PO, Tuah AK & Umunna NN (1995) Intake, digestibility, nitrogen balance and certain rumen characteristics of Ethiopian Menz sheep fed teff straw supplemented with cotton seed cake, dry Sesbania, dry Leucaena or fresh Leucaena. Agroforestry Systems 31, 243-256.
9. Briesacher SL, May T, Grigsby KN, Kerley MS, Anthony RV & Paterson JA (1992) Use of DNA probes to monitor nutritional effects on ruminal prokaryotes and Fibrobacter succinogenes S85. Journal of Animal Science 70, 289-295.
10. Broudiscou L & Jouany JP (1995) Reassessing the manipulation of protein synthesis by runen microbes. Reproduction Nutrition Development 35, 517-535.
11. Cone JW & Van Gelder AH (1999) Influence of protein fermentation on gas production profiles. Animal Feed Science and Technology 7, 251-264.
12. Dore J, Brownlee AG, Millet L, Virlogeux I, Saigne M, Fonty G & Gouet P (1993) Ribosomal DNA-targeted hybridization probes for the detection, identification and quantification of anaerobic rumen fungi. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 52, 176.
13. Dryhurst N & Wood CD (1998) The effect of nitrogen source and concentration on in vitro gas production using rumen micro-organisms. Animal Feed Science and Technology 71, 131-143.
14. Groleau D & Forsberg CW (1981) Cellulolytic activity of the rumen bacterium Bacteroides succinogenes. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 27, 517-530.
15. Goehring HK & Van Soest PJ (1970) Forage Fiber Analyses Agricultural Handbook, no. 379. pp. 20-52. Washington, DC: USDA.
16. Groot JCJ, Williams BA, Oostdam AJ, Boer H & Tamminga S (1998) The use of cumulative gas and volatile fatty acid production of predict in vitro fermentation kinetics of Italian ryegrass leaf cell walls and contents at various time intervals. British Journal of Nutrition 79, 519-525.
17. ATP. Journal of Animal Science 49, 1640-1659.
18. Hicks RE, Amann R & Stahl DA (1992) Dual staining of natural bacterioplankton with 4′, 6-diamidino-2-phenylindole and fluorescent oligonucleotide probes targeting kingdom-level 16S rRNA sequences. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 58, 2158-2163.
19. Holtershinken M, Plitt U, Tammen FC, Hoffmann P & Scholz H (1997) Influence of mouldy grass on fermentation and thiamine metabolism in bovine rumen fluid (in vitro). Deutsche Tierarztliche Wochenschrift 104, 17-22.
20. Huhtanen P, Vanhatalo A & Varvikko T (1998) Enzyme activities of rumen particles and feed samples incubated in situ with differing types of cloth. British Journal of Nutrition 79, 161-168.
21. John A (1984) Effects of feeding frequency and level of feed intake on chemical composition of rumen bacteria. Journal of Agricultural Science 102, 45-57.
22. Khandaker ZH, Steingass H & Drochner W (1998) Supplementation of wheat straw with Sesbania on voluntary intake, digestibility and ruminal fermentation in sheep. Small Ruminant Research 28, 23-29.
23. Krause DO, Smith WJM, Ryan FME, Mackie RI & McSweeney CS (1999) Use of 16S-rRNA based techniques to investigate the ecological succession of microbial populations in the immature lamb rumen: Tracking of a specific strain of inoculated Ruminococcus and interactions with other microbial populations in vivo. Microbial Ecology 38, 365-376.
24. Li J & Heath IB (1993) Chytridiomycetous gut fungi, oft over-looked contributors to herbivore digestion. Journal of Microbiology 39, 1003-1013.
25. Malburg LM & Fosberg CW (1993) Fibrobacter succinogenes S85 possesses at least nine distinct glucanase genes. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 39, 882-891.
26. May T, Kerley MS & Williams JE (1993) Supplemental protein influences on carbohydrate degradation and bacterial 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid. Journal of Dairy Science 76, 3479-3489.
27. Menke KH, Raab L, Salewski A, Steingass H, Fritz D & Schneider W (1979) The estimation of the digestibility and metabolizable energy content of ruminant feedingstuffs from the gas production when they are incubated with rumen liquor in vitro. Journal of Agricultural Science 93, 217-222.
28. Merry RJ & McAllan AB (1983) A comparison of the chemical composition of mixed bacteria harvested from the liquid and solid fractions of rumen digesta. British Journal of Nutrition 50, 701-709.
29. Muetzel S & Becker K (2002) An optimised RNA extraction protocol for rumen samples. Reproduction Nutrition Development 42, Suppl. 1, S8.
30. Muetzel S, Krishnamoorthy U & Becker K (2001) Effects of rumen fluid collection site on microbial population structure during in vitro fermentation of different substrates quantified by 16 S rRNA hybridisation. Archives of Animal Nutrition 55, 103-120.
31. Newbold CJ, Elhassan SM, Wang J, Ortega ME & Wallace RJ (1997) Influence on foliage from African multipurpose trees on activity of rumen protoza and bacteria. British Journal of Nutrition 78, 237-249.
32. Nierlich DP (1978) Regulation of bacterial growth, RNA, and protein synthesis. Annual Reviews in Microbiology 32, 393-432.
33. Odenyo AA, Mackie RI, Stahl DA & White BA (1994) The use of 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes to study competition between ruminal fibrolytic bacteria: Pure-culture studies with cellulose and alkaline peroxide-treated wheat straw. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 60, 3697-3703.
34. Odenyo AA, Osuji PO & Karanfil O (1997) Effect of multipurpose tree (MPT) supplements on ruminal ciliate protozoa. Animal Feed Science and Technology 67, 169-180.
35. Olsen GJ, Lane DJ, Giovannoni J & Pace NR (1986) Microbial ecology and evolution: A ribosomal RNA approach. Annual Review of Microbiology 40, 337-365.
36. Pettipher GL & Latham MJ (1979) Characteristics of enzymes produced by Ruminococcus flavefaciens which degrade plant cell walls. Journal of General Microbiology 110, 21-27.
37. Raskin L, Amann RI, Poulsen LK, Rittman BE & Stahl DA (1995) Use of ribosomal RNA based molecular probes for characterization of complex microbial communities in anaerobic biofilms. Water Science and Technology 31, 261-272.
38. Robinson PH, Fadel JG & Ivan M (1996) Critical evaluation of diaminopimelic acid and ribonucleic acid as markers to estimate rumen pools and duodenal flows of bacterial and protozoal nitrogen. Canadian Journal of Animal Science 76, 587-597.
39. Sayler GS & Layton AC (1990) Environmental application of nucleic acid hybridization. Annual Review of Microbiology 44, 625-648.
40. Stahl OA, Flesher B, Mansfield HA & Montgomery L (1988) Use of phylogenetically based hybridization probes for studies of ruminal microbial ecology. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 54, 1079-1084.
41. Stewart CS & Bryant MP (1997) The rumen bacteria. In The Rumen Microbial Ecosystem, pp. 10-72 [PN Hobson, editor]. London: Blackie Academic & Professional.
42. Varga GA & Kolver ES (1997) Microbial and animal limitations to fiber digestion and utilization. Journal of Nutrition 127, 5S.
43. Volden H, Harstad OM & Mydland LT (1999) Amino acid content and profile of protozoal and bacterial fractions isolated from ruminal contents of lactating dairy cows fed fiets differing in nitrogen supplementation. Acta Agriculture Scandinavica 49A, 245-250.
44. Wolin MJ (1960) A theoretical rumen fermentation balance. Journal of Dairy Science 40, 1452-1478.
45. Wood CO & Manyuchi B (1997) Use of an in vitro gas production method to investigate interactions between Veld hay and Napier hay or groundnut hay supplements. Animal Feed Science and Technology 67, 265-278.
46. Zheng DD, Aim EW, Stahl OA & Aaskin L (1996) Characterization of universal small-subunit rRNA hybridization probes for quantitative molecular microbial ecology studies. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 62, 4504-4513.