Technologies and perspectives for achieving carbon neutrality

F Wang, JD Harindintwali, Z Yuan, M Wang, F Wang… - The Innovation, 2021 - cell.com
Global development has been heavily reliant on the overexploitation of natural resources
since the Industrial Revolution. With the extensive use of fossil fuels, deforestation, and other …

The microbiome extends host evolutionary potential

LP Henry, M Bruijning, SKG Forsberg… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The microbiome shapes many host traits, yet the biology of microbiomes challenges
traditional evolutionary models. Here, we illustrate how integrating the microbiome into …

The rumen microbiome: balancing food security and environmental impacts

I Mizrahi, RJ Wallace, S Moraïs - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
Ruminants produce edible products and contribute to food security. They house a complex
rumen microbial community that enables the host to digest their plant feed through microbial …

Achieving net-zero emissions in agriculture: a review

L Rosa, P Gabrielli - Environmental Research Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Agriculture accounts for 12% of global annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (7.1 Gt
CO2 equivalent), primarily through non-CO2 emissions, namely methane (54%), nitrous …

Genomic and functional analyses of fungal and bacterial consortia that enable lignocellulose breakdown in goat gut microbiomes

X Peng, SE Wilken, TS Lankiewicz, SP Gilmore… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The herbivore digestive tract is home to a complex community of anaerobic microbes that
work together to break down lignocellulose. These microbiota are an untapped resource of …

GWAS, MWAS and mGWAS provide insights into precision agriculture based on genotype-dependent microbial effects in foxtail millet

Y Wang, X Wang, S Sun, C **, J Su, J Wei… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Genetic and environmental factors collectively determine plant growth and yield. In the past
20 years, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been conducted on crops to …

Multi-omics reveals that the rumen microbiome and its metabolome together with the host metabolome contribute to individualized dairy cow performance

MY Xue, HZ Sun, XH Wu, JX Liu, LL Guan - Microbiome, 2020 - Springer
Background Recently, we reported that some dairy cows could produce high amounts of
milk with high amounts of protein (defined as milk protein yield [MPY]) when a population …

Prevotella: A key player in ruminal metabolism

CL Betancur-Murillo, SB Aguilar-Marín, J Jovel - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ruminants are foregut fermenters that have the remarkable ability of converting plant
polymers that are indigestible to humans into assimilable comestibles like meat and milk …

The effects of the Green-Mediterranean diet on cardiometabolic health are linked to gut microbiome modifications: A randomized controlled trial

E Rinott, AY Meir, G Tsaban, H Zelicha, A Kaplan… - Genome medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Previous studies have linked the Mediterranean diet (MED) with improved
cardiometabolic health, showing preliminary evidence for a mediating role of the gut …

[HTML][HTML] Lignocellulose degradation by rumen bacterial communities: New insights from metagenome analyses

J Gharechahi, MF Vahidi, G Sharifi, S Ariaeenejad… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ruminant animals house a dense and diverse community of microorganisms in their rumen,
an enlarged compartment in their stomach, which provides a supportive environment for the …