could pave the way for increasing livestock survival and productivity through targeted microbiome stewardship during critical windows. As the digestive epicenter of ruminants, the rumen achieves ...

Rather than targeting archaea directly, Hokkaido University researchers are aiming to control the rumen microbiome in other ways. For example, some organic acids, such as fumarate, are known to ...

Her focus area is in the rumen microbiome and investigating the maternal influence on early rumen microbiome development in offspring as an avenue to improve productivity of the offspring long-term.

Publicly available databases that contained scientific data collected from previous studies on the cows' rumen were used to ... interactions within the rumen microbiome. This type of predictive ...

rumen microbiome, nitrogen/protein metabolism, lipid analysis and alternative feed/forages. As part of a university that has been epically innovative since 1886, we are making amazing discoveries to ...

The cows have help. A rich microbiome in the largest chamber of their stomach, known as the rumen, dismantles these foodstuffs and transforms them into usable energy. “It’s incredible,” said ...

Methane is an immensely challenging problem for the Irish dairy and beef sectors, but science is providing the means – mainly through new feed additives and breeding techniques – to reduce associated ...