Opportunities to improve fiber degradation in the rumen: Microbiology, ecology, and genomics

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 663-693

  Krause, Denis O ^a,b   Denman, Stuart E ^a   Mackie, Roderick I ^c   Morrison, Mark ^d   Rae, Ann L ^a   Attwood, Graeme T ^e   McSweeney, Christopher S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Diversity; Functional genome; Metagenome; Plant cell wall; Rumen

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; BETA GLUCOSIDASE; BETA MANNOSIDASE; CELLULASE; CELLULOSE; ESTERASE; GLYCOSIDASE; LIGNIN;

ANAEROBIC FERMENTATION; CELL ADHESION; DIGESTION; ECOLOGY; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; ENZYME GLYCOSYLATION; FERMENTATION OPTIMIZATION; FUNGUS; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENOME; INOCULATION; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT CELL; PLANT FIBER; PREVOTELLA; REVIEW; RUMEN MICROORGANISM; RUMINANT STOMACH; RUMINOCOCCUS; RUMINOCOCCUS ALBUS; RUMINOCOCCUS FLAVEFACIENS;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 0345447488     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(03)00072-X     Document Type: Review

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