Ex-vivo cow rumen fluid fermentation: changes in microbial populations and fermentation products with different forages

This study investigated the effects of three forage treatments [herbal plantain (PL), ryegrass-white clover pasture (RW) and root crop fodder beet (FB)] on ex-vivo rumen fluid fermentations. Quantitative real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) and PCR-single-stranded conformation polymorphism (PC...

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Main Authors: Haitian Fang, Omar Al-Marashdeh, Huitong Zhou, Andriy Podolyan, Jonathan G. Hickford, Grant R. Edwards, Keith C. Cameron, Long Cheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-01-01
Series:Journal of Applied Animal Research
Subjects:
VFA
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09712119.2018.1495082