Responses of methane production and fermentation pathways to the increased dissolved hydrogen concentration generated by eight substrates in in vitro ruminal cultures

Animal Feed Science and Technology

Volumn 194, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-11

  Wang, M ^a,b   Sun, X Z ^c   Janssen, P H ^c   Tang, S X ^a,b   Tan, Z L ^a,b  

^a Key Laboratory of Agro ecological Processes in Subtropical Region Hunan Research Center of Livestock and Poultry Sciences South Central Experimental Station of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science in Ministry of Agriculture   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fermentation pathway; Hydrogen gas; Hydrogen supersaturation; Methanogens; Ruminal fermentation; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903821683     PISSN: 03778401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2014.04.012     Document Type: Article

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