Ruminants are mostly herbivorous animals that employ rumen fermentation for the digestion
of feed materials, including dairy cows. Ruminants consume plant fibre as their regular diet …

Anaerobic fungi (phylum Neocallimastigomycota) inhabit the gastrointestinal tract of
mammalian herbivores, where they play an important role in the degradation of plant …

This book presents a series of chapters on the current knowledge with an emphasis on the
interactions of host animal with the microbes in the rumen. The whole content is divided into …

Ferulic acid (FA) is one of the most abundant hydroxycinnamic acids in the plant world,
especially in the cell wall of grain bran, in comparison with forage and crop residues …

The systematic exploration of microbial ecosystem of the rumen was commenced by the
father of rumen microbiology, Robert Hungate, in 1950s. His contributions toward the …

An extended incubation strategy to culture slow growing members of anaerobic fungi
resulted in the isolation of a novel anaerobic fungus from the rumen of a goat after 15 days …

The rumen microbiota enable important metabolic functions to the host cattle. Feeding of
starch-rich concentrate feedstuffs to cattle has been demonstrated to increase the risk of …

Simple Summary Considerable attention has recently been focused on the rumen
microbiome, which has been implicated in regulating a ruminant's nutrient metabolism. From …

Gut microbiota in a healthy population is shaped by various geographic, demographic and
lifestyle factors. Although the majority of research remains focused on the bacterial …

Background Large amounts of fibre-rich organic waste material from public green and
private gardens have to be treated environmentally friendly; however, this fibre-rich biomass …